Aunt greedily demands money for late father's property, didn't know it was sold to her older brother over 10 years prior, leaves with her tail tucked: 'She didn't do her homework properly.'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Apr 8, 2026 1:45 PM EDT

It's all love and peace until greed gets involved… When it came to this family, it was their late father's land. All the siblings were living on it, grew up on it, built their own homes on it, and are raising their own kids on it. It was a good amount of land! However, after the father passed, the eldest daughter decided it was her land, and everyone owed her rent. Unfortunately for her, the father had sold the land to her oldest brother over a decade prior. 

So she not only left with no extra cash, but also shunned by her family. That's where greed will get you! Luckily, this family has a generous brother who is making sure their father's land stays free of greed and for the family. 

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    Older woman, auntie, drinking coffee outside on a porch at home 

  • "FAFO for an entitled aunt"

    My grandfather bought a large property when my dad was 4. He then hand-built their house in the hours he wasn't working.
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  • He also later operated his new company from the property. At that time, my parents were newly married.
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  • Grandpa needed someone to help him with his business, so he called my dad in to help him.
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  • Dang, auntie, chill. Like, you really want to take advantage of your family like that? So soon after your father's passing? That is when a family is supposed to come together and support each other the most. What? You thought you could just throw your family on the street and come up financially? Now that sounds like an actual villainous plot. Family should not treat family like that. 

    The brother is obviously the most generous one of the siblings, but he wasn't about to let this sister walk away with no consequences after trying to pull that move. 

  • Dad and mom moved there, and that's where I was born. I grew up on the property, and even as an adult, I rent a flat on the property.
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  • Circa 2010, my dad purchased the property from grandpa in full. But he let my grandpa still collect rent from the residential units on the property.
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  • About 3 years ago, grandpa had a massive heart attack, and we buried him shortly after.
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  • And boy, oh boy, did the vultures come out in full. My dad purchasing the property was public knowledge.
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  • But here's where things get interesting: Dad's second eldest sister was the one we went on vacation with when I was a kid, and she used to be my favourite aunt.
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  • (Dad has 3 older sisters, btw). But over the last decade or so, she became really weird and started pushing everyone away.
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  • When grandma got sick, my aunt and her daughter, who both live close by, never lifted a finger to help physically care for my grandparents.
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  • She'd for a very short time pay them each a grand or two (in South African rand).
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  • Her husband started using our property to store some of his business products and equipment. He planted a large patch of invasive grass he also used for his business.
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  • Just before my grandmother got sick, my dad hit some financial difficulties. He carefully calculated the expenses on the property and asked each family member, who in some way used the property, to pay a small portion of rent.
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  • Aunt had a hissy fit of epic proportions. She claimed that she supported her parents financially, and that she'd not give my dad a cent - even though they were costing my dad money at this stage.
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    Country home in the sun with lots of green trees and grass

  • You better believe auntie was kicked off the property and not allowed back on. She even ignores them in public now, but good riddance. The rest of the family can live near each other, appreciate their homes and family members, and live a life as far from greed as they can. That means as far from their greedy sister. 

    Would an apology even suffice for a situation like this? What grand gesture of kindness can be made to bring this sister/aunt back into the family? This seems more like a no-contact situation going froward. 

  • My dad's one fault in life is that he gives those he loves too many chances.
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  • I helped both my dad with his business and my grandma with her physical care. It was an effort of 5 of us who cared for my gran until the end.
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  • But when grandpa dd, my aunt brought my dad an itemised document detailing every property expense, the time he had lived on the property (the same with my dad's eldest sister, who also lived on the property) - and demanded that they pay all the outstanding rent.
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  • She was shocked shocked, I tell you - when my dad pulled out the deed to the property along with the transfer of ownership papers.
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  • Somehow, she had ignored, forgotten, or whatever, that my dad had bought the property for a fair price over a decade ago.
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  • She'd been planning for years to collect her part of the money and sell the property.
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  • My dad was less than cordial when she came with the demand, and she eventually left his office with her tail tucked, but still trying to threaten him, claiming that he'd hidden the sale from her.
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  • Her husband had to drag her away. Dad had been keeping the peace for his parents' sake.
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  • But guess who lost their access to the property, and who turns their head away when they see us in town.
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  • She truly thought she was going to make a massive profit and put us all out on the street, but she didn't do her homework properly.
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  • I can't prove it, but it was also after one of her visits that my grandpa's will — which he - kept in his office - went missing.
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  • Joke's on her though, because it was an old, invalid will, and the lawyers had his recently signed new will with them.
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