Grandma sneakily puts 27-year-old granddaughter's home in her name but refuses to make her half of the payments, granddaughter sneakily removes Gran's name years later: ‘[She] does any and everything in her power to keep you down’

Author image for Lana DeGaetano
Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Mar 28, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Becoming a homeowner in your 20s is a feat. With the way things are in the economy and real estate market, finding a home within your budget is probably more difficult than winning the lottery—it's basically all luck. One great broker, an understanding real estate agent, and a rare interest rate are all it takes to get the keys. When your relatives insist on helping you with purchasing the home, run for the hills. More often than not, there's something in it for them, and you will end up getting the short end of the stick. It's always the ones you're supposed to trust, isn't it?

In this next story, a then-21, now-27-year-old woman decides to purchase a home, and her entitled grandmother insists on helping her. The woman was under the impression her grandmother cosigned, but she actually put her name on the house, then refused to make half of the payments as she promised. The woman luckily struck up a deal with the landlord after three months of missed payments, and she took her grandmother's name off of the house without her knowledge… Scroll to read.

Add as a preferred
source on Google
Advertisement

  • The woman, who was 21 upon purchasing the home, didn't need her grandmother's help—she just wanted out of her grandmother's toxic home environment. Like all entitled people do, her grandmother wiggled her way into the home-buying process and got her name on the contract. All she wants is control, all of the time—the woman refuses to put up with it any longer.

  • Cheezburger Image 10485890048
    via Artem Labunsky for Unsplash

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • "AITAH for not telling my grandmother her name was taken off my house?"

    I (27f) decided when I was 21 | wanted to find a house. I looked around at empty houses in my area and found one I fell in love with it was a major fixer upper and I'm still working on some cosmetic details with it. I had just
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • moved here not even a year before with my grandmother and her new husband and they were constantly threatening to kick me out if I didn't basically hand them
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • my entire check every week or wanted me home by 8pm no matter what and I was expected to do all the cooking and cleaning for them and her husbands daughter that is over twice my age.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • After I found the house I wanted I went to the assessors office to get the information on who owned it and since my grandmother knew way more people than I did I asked her if she knew the guy.. well turns out
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • it was her boss. I asked for his number and she refused to give it to me or even go with me to talk to him said she'd do it for me and get it handled for me to buy it.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • Well at the time I had no idea how she got him to sell the house and was told by her the house was being sold under both of our names as apparently he didn't trust a 21 year old to actually pay I guess? Still all according to her.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • Then a month later he brought by a contract for us to sign and I was again under the impression the house was mine and she was just a co-signer for insurance on the purchase in case I couldn't handle it. Well she ended up moving a couple months after we signed the contract and left to out of state.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • She was supposed to give me half the house payment to help me pay it off (I never asked, she offered!) and was supposed to send her half directly to him. After about 8 months of her being gone the guy came to my
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • door telling me I was behind on the house by about 3 months because she never sent him the money each month and I could either pay him by the end of week or move out. He said he tried to call her multiple times over and over week after week month after month and she just wouldn't answer him.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • Naturally I got pretty ped off that I'd lose everything I'd been working all year for and I had a talk with him. Come to find out she got me the house by telling him it was for her and I would just be living with her. She told him
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • she and her husband were divorcing and she needed a place to live so that she didn't have to leave and move back to our home state. Which obviously was lies all of it as she left right after signing the contract. The guy and
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • I came to the conclusion that according to the contract she and I signed that put the purchase of the house to her, had a clause in it that the contract would be voided if she left the state for more than 7 consecutive days.
    via AllieTokebear710
  • We ended up working it out to keep 50% of MY PAYMENTS I had already paid towards the house and start me under a new contract with him alone. It's been about a year since then and I've made all my payments and I'm
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • almost finished paying the house off as I've paid 2-3 payments each month to dwindle the total down quickly. The issue I'm having is the guy wants me to tell my grandmother what's going on BEFORE she gets up here to visit at the end of April and I really don't want to.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • AGREEMENT NING CONTRACT BETWEEN IT SEEK LEGAL ADVICE Se knowledge that Broker is led in Section III of the Agency , hereinafter referred to as and cons set forth, the property legally described as: NES JEPONT Money in the amount of (S aking dy after acceptance of this offer. sal be deposited into the trust account of the listing _ DOLLARS Cash selling Check DOLLARS PRE The wal purchase price is to be (S ein is credited, the remaining balance is to be paid by Purchaser at closing FANCING Now Mort
    via Faruk Tokluoğlu For Unsplash+

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • My grandmother is very controlling and a major narcissist with bipolar disorder. She has always been wishy washy and one second is so supportive and the next does any and everything in her power to keep you down and helpless. I feel like she did all
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • this on purpose knowing I'd pay and be responsible and she could come after the house was paid and snake it out from under me and use it to run me like she did me living at her and her husbands house for a year. My
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • mother and a few others in the family agree with me that telling her isn't the best idea before I have it paid off even tho legally she can't do anything she left and that resulted in her contract being voided. She also made a deal with me that when she came this summer she'd help me get the electrical redone as it severely needs it.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • I'm just not sure if telling her isn't a good idea as the little bit she did pay into it she could try to sue me for possibly but idk. I may be the a hole for taking my house back after she lied and throwing her under the bus refusing to pay under her name anymore.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • EDIT|| thank you all so much I've been battling my morals on this for awhile now and with a month until D-Day (day she arrives in town cuz villain arc totally great -,- note the sarcasm). I now realize I really have no reason to feel like I'm the ah le or have done anything wrong. She did in
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • fact make a commitment and did not hold up her end of the deal. I stepped up and did what I had to for myself and my family and I shouldn't have to apologize for that. I don't think I'm going to say anything until she arrives and
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • even then probably won't unless she explicitly asks. I do love how everyone has the same ideas just based off of a small peak into her personality about having the cameras and locks changed (which I did awhile ago for the same fears it seems you all have).
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • It makes me realize I'm not so crazy in how I'm handling this and maybe I need to just chill out and stop stressing out so much. Legally there is nothing she can do to me but I do plan on taking someone down belows advice and saving up the 4k to pay her
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • back that she paid into it in the first place. I know it's not my job to give her money she lost out on back but I feel like for my own sanity I'd feel better knowing she couldn't say I took her house or her money. I'm currently looking
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • to real estate lawyers just to be certain everything is good to go with my contract with the guy I'm buying from even though I'm 97% sure it's all good anyway I now have a small sliver of doubt thanks to everyone on if I'll even get my house in the end I'm glad everyone been so
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • forthcoming in the issues I could be facing with my grandmother as well as the seller and I intend to have all my facts and ducks in a row before doing anything farther with the house aside from living in it until it's paid and signed over.
    via AllieTokeBear710
  • Turbulent_Break_1862 Change the locks, get cameras set up, notify her she can't come to YOUR house. Sorry but you have to cut her out of your life. She is going to be a problem for as long as you life. You do not need to put up with her!!
    via Turbulent_Break_1862
  • Cut her out. Call the police when (not if, when) she shows up at your door. Start telling people around you stories of how bad she has treated you in the past. Let people know the real her. Stop hiding her ab e, let the world see what's going on so she can't poison your community to hate on you.
    via Turbulent_Break_1862

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

family drama homeowner grandma granddaughter reddit story family feud parenting entitled people karma real estate entitled family reddit thread Reddit grandmother home Parenting Fail entitled people
Scroll Down For The Next Article