When you're close with your family, you'll do anything in your power to try to help them out. Whether that's lending them something in their hour of need, or helping them out financially if you're able - it varies between person to person.
A woman was left exasperated when she tried to help her brother out as he "needed help", but he wasn't being very fair towards her when he "stopped doing maintenance" to the property, as a "protest" due to an argument they'd had.
He then began paying the rent late as well, and she was becoming exasperated with the way he was behaving, and she said it was causing her "headaches."
She took to Reddit's 'Am I the a**hole' forum to ask whether people thought she was a bad person for selling the house so he couldn't live there any longer.
She wrote: "A few years ago my brother needed help. I let him move into one of my rental properties and we did it all legally. 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.
"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 off 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. We had a big argument and I didn't want to fight so I said that he was not allowed to make any further changes to the house without my explicit agreement.
"So he stopped doing maintenance as a protest."
The woman wasn't happy with the fact that her brother started to allow her property to get into disrepair, and he eventually started paying the rent late when she said she wouldn't "add a new breaker box and run more outlets."
She said that she tried to speak to him but he said he had to "buy some stuff for the house and he was low on cash."
She continued: "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.
"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.
"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 that he has the money he was waiting to make me an offer. I asked him if he had money, why was late on his rent.
"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.
"My parents are on my side and they said I shouldn't have rented to him in the first place. 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."
In the comments, people backed the woman, saying that she was more than reasonable to her brother and tried to help him out as much as she could.
One wrote: "You stood up for yourself, good for yourself. You should be so proud."
"The brother already cheated the original on the rent, why risk him doing the same with a sale? Only do business with honest people, and the brother is not", another raged.
"He'd been late on rent several times before", someone fumed. "He just thought he could manipulate the original poster because they're related."
What would you do in this situation? Let us know in the comments.
