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What do I do with my lazy nephew and his girlfriend?

I own a beautiful rental home. I recently remodeled and spent $70,000.00 in upgrades. I agreed to have my brother who is 54 years old rent it. He has a 29 year old son (my nephew) which would live with him. Both have good jobs. But now my other nephew (his other son) has moved in with his girlfriend. Both are unemployed, sleep until 1:30 daily and sadly have a 1 year old darling baby girl. I told my brother that my unemployed nephew and his girlfriend are lazy and slobs. They are destroying my home. My brother makes excuses for them. What do I do?

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Answer #1

tell them yourself the situation that this is your rental home, youve paid for it, its been fixed up and that they cant have a free ride there going to need to find a job, because they need to afford not only the rent, but also there babies needs thats how the world works you dont just get to be a slob because you have a baby, you still have to work and if your staying in someone elses home you need to be committed to paying off the rent if you want to keep staying there they need to understand this and get off there bums and find a job

Answer #2

Maybe it’s time to separate business and family. If your brother and son rented a home from a non-family member, these other two either 1) wouldn’t be allowed to move in…or 2) the rent would go up to accomodate them being there. That’s how it is in the rental world. (Simply because the more people occupying the space, the more wear and tear on the home).

You can either raise the rent to accomodate this extra wear and tear, or tell brother they HAVE to go, or everybody has to go…and you can rent to strangers. That might cause some hard feelings…but, let’s face it…there’s going to be hard feelings if the two slobs wreck your rental…right?

There’s also the option to put a time limit on the two freeloaders…give them 30 or 60 days to get their poop in a group, and get out, or ante up the extra rent. (I know the baby plays a HUGE part in why your brother feels responsible…but I also know that babies get used as pawns in manipulative behaviors of children…and it appears they have him over this ‘baby barrel’.

phrannie

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