World traveler refuses to allow his sister, her husband, and their children to live rent-free in his house while he's away, they insist they'll move his belongings to the garage so they can move their things in: ‘I'm not a landlord’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Jul 8, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

Having a career that allows you to take multiple weeks off at a time is a blessing. A lot of us glued to our computer screens during our lunch breaks right now wish we were on the white sandy beaches of Mykonos or in the middle of the hustle-and-bustle city of Paris, chowing down on a baguette.

That's not how the world works, as I'm sure you know, so it's only right for those lucky enough to have the time and money to travel while they can. There is nothing as irreplaceable as seeing all the sights this world has to offer.

What do you do when you're away from your home for weeks at a time? Well, if you don't have a pet and a stellar alarm system, then you don't need to do anything. If your sibling insists that they and their family move in while you're away, you shoo them away. Expeditiously. Double points if they expect you to be okay with them banishing all of your belongings to the dusty garage. Oh, and they don't want to pay you for it either. This is a lose situation, clearly, but they still get mad when you rightfully decline. Who's in the wrong here? Scroll below to read the full story.

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  • If only life were as easy as we want it to be. Even if you have your career and off-day vacations planned and ready for you, you'll still have entitled family members buzzing in your ear, hoping they can somehow financially benefit from your leg up in this world. Shame on them…

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  • "AITAH for not letting my sister and her family stay in my home even though I'm hardly ever there?"

    I work at a FIFO (fly in fly out) construction site. I get paid very well and I enjoy my work. But the best part, besides the pay, is that I work 42 days in a row then I get 21 days off.
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  • Like I said I get paid well for what I do so I tend to do whatever the h II want. I bought a truck ten years ago. It has 32,000 miles on
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  • it. I'm never home to drive it. I bought a house partly as an investment partly as a place to keep my stuff. I'm there maybe 30 days a year.
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  • I'll give an example. I just got back from Colombia. I spent almost three weeks just traveling around checking out cool stuff.
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  • I'm at my house now basically to drop off souvenirs and to have a little sleep before I go to work on Thursday. When I'm done this
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  • shift I will be going to Japan for a couple of weeks. So over the course of 24 weeks I will use my house for maybe a week total. Just a couple of days between vacations and work.
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  • Long backstory but it's relevant I promise. My sister and her husband want to move their family into my house. So that they can save up to buy a house of their own. They
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  • don't want to pay me rent or anything. They say that if they are there then I don't need my gardener or my caretaker service. They will take care of my house.
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  • They aren't homeless or anything. They are both employed people with careers. They just want to save up.
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  • I was considering it until they said that they would put my stuff in the garage so they could have their stuff to use. Like my couch and such.
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  • I like my couch. I like passing out on it. I like my stuff in my house my way. I like that the lawn is always mowed and that my fridge has a couple of days of my favorite food whenever I'm in the house.
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  • I said no. I told her I would help them with a loan for a downpayment but that my house was not for rent. She is p ed off
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  • now saying that people like me are the reason there is a housing shortage. I'm not sure how. I don't buy multiple houses. I'm not a landlord. I just have one house that I like to have as a home base.
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  • So am I the a hle?
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  • Sad-Country-9873 NTA - they would make you a guest in your own home and put you in the guest room. Possibly they would have such a sweet deal they wouldn't want to move out.
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  • Ekta KapoorForPM NTA. They dont want to be caretakers they want to be tenants who dont pay rent. And they want to move your stuff out? The audacity is insane. You made the right call.
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  • lostgravy NTA. This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. If you feel something, just give them some cash as a loan, and never expect to see any of it ever again
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  • SubarcticFarmer NTA and you're impressive that you are so caring that you even contemplated that you could be. They literally want to take your house from you for free and put your stuff in the garage. I honestly wonder if they ever planned on even moving out. Why would they buy a house if they had the free one that they decided you don't need.
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  • Sandpiper1701 NTA If they decided to squat you'd be constrained by the law about when and how you could evict them. They're asking to use your space as their own, rent free. It's your property and autonomy at risk, and you get nothing from them except their potential gratitude. You're running all the risk. And they have kids? Yeah, no. Absolutely not.
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