AITA: 'He found out when he was served an eviction notice': Immature brother expects family freebies after avoiding paying rent to his brother for months, older sibling sells the house in retaliation, family drama ensues

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Mar 24, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

There's a reason that people wear stupid masks to cover their identity when they accept lottery winnings on public broadcast. It's simple– they don't want their family knowing that they're overnight billionaires. For some reason, people think that they're entitled to a portion of any family member's financial success just because you're related. One man found out the hard way just how far his brother was willing to push him to get 'his share' of family freebies, forcing him to teach his sibling a brutal life lesson. 

After allowing his brother and their family to live in one of his rental properties, the older brother started to sense that things might go sour. The younger brother, at first, was determined to improve the property, buying things for the house and then "taking the buyers fee" out of his monthly rent. The older brother never asked for these changes to be made to the house so he simply asked him for the full rent amount and to leave any renovations to him, the property owner. 

That's when the scamming started. 

The younger brother started to run out of money and kept pushing off rent payments, begging his brother for an extension and never following through. Finally, the older brother got fed up covering the costs himself and letting his brother take advantage of him. He listed the house to sell and his brother was sent an official eviction notice. Ouch. 

Fuming, the financially irresponsible brother called him saying that he should have offered it to them to buy, but the older brother was wondering what kind of money he had stashed away to buy a house when he didn't even have enough to make rent? The younger brother went on a revenge spree, bad mouthing the older brother to the entire family. The older brother gave the family members their own chance to cover the cost of his brother's debt and nobody stepped up. As it turns out, when you give family an inch on money matters, they'll take a whole mile. 

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    Font - r/AmItheA 6 hours ago 2 • Posted by u/FollowingFit3032 AITA for selling the house my brother and his family live in.
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    Font - A few years ago my brother needed help. I let him move into one of my rental properties and we did it all legal. Lease agreement and everything. Because I was renting to him at a breakeven point we agreed that he was responsible for all the maintenance of the house and yard.
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    Font - Well he has four kids. And the hot water tank isn't enough for his family and he wants a new one. I told him to go ahead. He then proceeded to take the cost of the hot water tank and installation of of that month's rent. I reminded him of our agreement. He said he wasn't making improvements to my property for free. I said that the old hot water tank was fine and he made the decision to replace it. Big argument and I didn't want to fight so I said that he was not allowed to make any furthe
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    Font - So he stopped doing maintenance as a protest.
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    Font - The house itself is not pretty but it is solid. It is old and the wiring in it was not meant for all the modern electronics we have. He wanted to add a new breaker box and run more outlets. I said no thanks. I cannot afford that since I'm not making any money on the house. He started getting bitchy about it and the rent started getting paid late.
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    Font - I tried talking to him but he said that he had to buy some stuff for the house and he was low on cash.
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    Font - So I sold the house.
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    Font - So I sold the house. While the house itself isn't great it is in an older part of the city and the property itself is a quarter of an acre. Every time a house sells in the neighborhood it is snapped up by developers and tuned into multi family units. Or one guy built a McMansion on his land.
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    Smile - I know a lot of the developers and I didn't even need to list the house to have it sold in less than a week.
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    Font - My brother found out when he was served with an eviction notice. He called me to ask WTF. So I told him that the house was causing me headaches and I had an opportunity to make some money and I took it. He said I should have offered him a chance to buy it. I said that he was having trouble making rent. How was he going to qualify for a mortgage. He said I'm an a hole and
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    Font - that he has the money he was waiting to make me an offer. I asked him if he had money why he was late on his rent.
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    Font - He started bad-mouthing me to all our family. A few of them took his side and tried to say I was being an asshole so I offered all of them a chance to clear his debt to me if they wanted to share their opinion. None of them took me up on the offer.
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    Smile - My parents are on my side and they said I shouldn't have rented to him in the first place.
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    Font - I feel bad for my sister-in-law and the kids but I'm not going to spend the rest of my life subsidizing his.
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    Font - Sailor_Chibi 4 hr. ago Supreme Court Just-ass [125] Your brother learned a valuable lesson, I think. It's a shame his wife and kids had to learn it too. But that's what happens when you think you can push people as far as you want and face no consequences for it.
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    Font - Saint_Blaise. 4 hr. ago Your brother learned a valuable lesson I wouldn't be surprised if his brother learned nothing at all.
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    Handwriting - Mmoct 3 hr. ago And now his wife and kids are potentially homeless, talk about family drama
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    Font - Poolofcheddar 3 hr. ago If the brother was willing to play games with rent, how do you know he wouldn't pull a squatter's rights-kind of move.
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    Font - Grabbsy2 3 hr. ago Yep, in whatever time window it was between OP guaranteeing that the property would be purchased by a developper, and the eviction notice, then OP should have told his brother. Even if it was like three days, the news should have come from his brother.
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    Font - RambleOnRose42 - 4 hr. ago Unless you feel there was a risk he'd damage the property to sabotage the sale Based on the... literally everything about this post, I'd say there was a higher-than- likely risk of this lol. But I do agree with you.
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    Font - GlitterDoomsday. 2 hr. ago That's not why the children's lives are worst - their dad decided to not pay rent on time when he could, causing their landlord to lose money keeping the property and subsequently deciding to sell it.
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    Font - sparrowhawk75. 2 hr. ago Asshole Aficionado [17] Much harder to qualify for a mortgage once there's an official eviction on your record
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    Font - 10S_NE1 3 hr. ago Well, all those family members calling the OP an a hole are free to invite the brother and his family to come live with them.
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    Font - Scared-Accountant288 3 hr. ago Or you KNOW because hes "family" he would expect a super absurd low price for the house anyway.
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