He’s Refusing To Swap Homes With His Cousin, Even Though His House Is Bigger And His Cousin Lives In A Mobile Home With Two Teenagers
This man lives on a family property where there are three residences.
One of the residences belonged to his grandparents, the second was his cousin’s, and the third belonged to his aunt and uncle.
In addition to these three residences, there is also a cabin on this family property, and he utilized the cabin in the past as a recording studio.
For eight years, he also lived in the cabin, but his cousin kicked him out so that she could move someone else into it. His cousin’s acquaintance lived in the cabin for about two months.
In 2018, he moved into the residence his grandfather was living in. At the beginning of 2020, his wife moved in with him and his grandfather.
In 2020, his grandfather sadly passed away.
“Maybe about a month after he passed away, my cousin asked if my wife and I would be willing to swap places with them since they have two teenage girls living with them in their small mobile home, and my wife and I are staying in my grandpa’s big house. We declined the offer,” he said.
He had a multitude of reasons for rejecting the idea. After his cousin forced him to leave the cabin, he’d been using a couple of multipurpose rooms as a recording studio.
Also, he and his wife won’t be living in his grandfather’s house for much longer because the property is going to be sold within a couple of years.
Prostock-studio – stock.adobe.com- illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
After his grandfather passed away, his grandfather’s children (his mother, aunt, and uncle) were left with the ownership of the property. However, his grandfather hadn’t given anyone in particular the house within his will.
Understandably, he and his wife don’t want to deal with the stress and hassle of moving all of their belongings out of his grandfather’s house and into the mobile home, only to have to move all over again a couple of years later.
“I’ve replaced some of the appliances in the house (range/oven, washing machine, toilet, and the water heater. A couple of days ago, my cousin brought up the idea again, throwing out the fact that she and her husband do a lot of work on the property and that it kind of feels like a slap in the face that they live in a smaller unit,” he explained.
Once more, his cousin told him that they didn’t have enough space for the four of them in their mobile home. Then, his cousin told him that she and her husband would look for a house to buy if he still wasn’t willing to switch residences.
Even though he and his wife don’t want to go forward with the switch, he has mixed feelings about the situation.
“It really does make more sense for the bigger family to live in the bigger house,” he shared.
At the same time, he acknowledged that he and his wife wouldn’t be gaining anything from this switch, and they would actually be in a worse situation if they lived in the mobile home, which doesn’t have central air (neither heating nor air conditioning). Plus, the living room is tiny, and there are a lot of problems related to the plumbing.
What would you do if you were in his shoes?
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