Woman insists home owner move out of his inherited home instead of leaving herself, he refuses: “She avoids me”

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jun 12, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Hey there ladies and gentlemen. Coming into a large inheritance can feel like winning the lottery. Some people get hundreds of thousands of dollars, priceless jewelry, a new car, or even a large home. I remember when I got my inheritance from my grandparents. Without their sum of money, I never would have been able to buy the house I live in now near Lake Tahoe. It's perfect, quaint, and all thanks to an inheritance. 
 

Being able to own a home or even afford rent is becoming scarcer and scarcer. We all deserve a good home to live in, but the younger generations will have a hard time affording it. Even those who pursue high income professions won't have an easy time. It will be a generation of single, media-driven people living in studio apartments. 
 

In the story below, the protagonist is a man who just inherited a home, albeit there's another tenant living there already. It's a woman with her young daughter, and she doesn't want to live with a man. Read the full story below. 

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    AITAH for moving into the house I inherited even though the lodger doesn’t feel comfortable around men?

    "If she doesn't like it, she can move"
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    I inherited a house that came with a lodger with a 6 year old that is renting one of the rooms. She is upset because I have in her words made it terrifying to live here
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  • One of the commenters says it the best, “she's a choosing beggar.” It's not even her house! If her only option is to move back with her ex, then that sounds dreadful, but it doesn't have anything to do with OP. She's entitled, but she won't get away with it. 

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    since I've moved in. She doesn't feel safe with her and her daughter living with a man she just met and that she wants to stay away from men because of
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    issues with her ex. That's why living with an old woman felt so safe.
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    Btw this is all being communicated through notes she's been leaving because she avoids me.
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    I've already wrote back that she I can move out whenever. She left another note saying she will, but she really doesn't want to have to
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    because the reason she moved in here was so her daughter could go to the school district here and the only way she was able to afford to live here is because her
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    lease is just for $150 (for utilities) and housework and they might have to move back in with her ex.
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    So basically she wants me to move out. I don't want to because the house still has a mortgage that I would have to
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    continue to pay in addition to paying for rent somewhere else.
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    There technically is the option to get a female tenant. However the prices for renting a single bedroom won't cover the mortgage and I can't afford to
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    make up the difference. Plus I'd have to deal with my grandmas things faster than I want to.
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    Another big thing is I can avoid tax reassessment on the house if I move in within a year. Which is also why selling is definitely off the table.
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    Flounderkind8267 • 15h ago You own the house. If she doesn't like it, she can move.
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    She's literally a choosing beggar making these statements while living there -near rent free
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    Expert_Ad_3652 • 14h ago So sorry about your Grandma. Please know that one day you will laugh more than cry when you think of her.
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    She left that house to you, because she hoped you'd be blessed by her gift.
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    If you can afford to allow this tenet to break her lease with no penalty, maybe offer that; but I don't think your Grandma would want you
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    walking on eggshells and putting this woman and her 6 year old ahead of your own grieving process during
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    what should be your chance to go through your Grandmas things at your own pace.
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    Yours is not the only room in town, she can find another situation. What are you supposed to leave the place frozen in time until this first grader graduates high school?
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    I'm proud of you for even considering this woman's feelings, but don't let her guilt you into debt over what your Grandma probably hoped would help you jump start some wealth. building.
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    You are a beloved Grandson and certainly NTA.
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