It belongs to my dad but it's a bear to play, coming up on 25 years old now and is in really good shape and doesn't sound too bad for a Yamaha with a laminate top. The action at the 12th fret is easily 1.5 cm's off the board and it is almost impossible to play more then 5 minutes without getting hand strain. Took it in to get looked at, they said it would require a neck reset and a complete setup which is looking at close to 300 dollars to fix. The other issue is that it has dried out a bit so I am going to stick it with the humidifier for a few days and see if I can sort that issue out. The thing is that I don't know whether it's worth fixing or not since we can get a new one replaced for like 500 dollars that is every bit as good.

Well for a couple hundred more it might be just worth your while to get another one.
If you can get away with it without having a neck reset done it might be worth considering if your into it, using it as a slide guitar, as either a six or twelve string.
I once had a Takamine 12 string years ago that I took 6 strings off of and used purely as a slide guitar. A little extra spacing between the strings with the neck of a 12 being wider as opposed to a 6 string helped a lot with learning to play a few things.

The issue is selling it, I dunno if anyone would buy it unless it was for a fixer upper. A good new one isn't going to be cheap either, I was looking at a couple of Simon and Patrick ones for about 500 bucks, they sound pretty nice too and like the 6 string that I own (a CW Wooland spruce model), they are great guitars for the money and rival other brands that use solid wood instead of laminate (most S&P's are laminate tops). The thing is that I want to be able to play it in standard tuning, but even playing it half a step down can be a nightmare.

It's not worth it. A new 12 string Ovation Celebrity w/ a solid top is going to cost about the same to get that fixed.

i am a business looking at close to 300 dollars to fix. The other issue is that it has dried out a bit so I am going to stick it with the humidifier. how i can find out. say me.

WTF?!?!?!! did you just say?

, they sound pretty nice too and like the 6 string that I own (a CW Wooland spruce model), they are great guitars for the money and rival other brands that use solid wood instead of laminate