She Wants To Evict Her Grandpa’s Elderly Caretaker, Since This Woman Allowed His Home To Fall Into Disrepair
In the early 2000s, this woman’s grandma and grandpa purchased a vacation house located in a tiny mountain town.
They went on to find an older, retired woman named P to be their caretaker and live on their property.
P’s duties include coordinating with landscapers and notifying them if the home needs repairs. P is also expected to dust the house, drip out the facets before winter comes, and run dehumidifiers during the summer months.
P doesn’t pay rent or utilities, and she never has in the 20 years she’s lived on the property while caring for it.
P lives there rent-free, and her grandpa is totally a “bleeding heart.” Also, P is quite close to her grandma and grandpa’s best friends, which might explain her grandpa’s leniency with P.
Throughout the last ten years, P has become more troublesome, and she’s allowed the home to fall into disrepair.
She moved there in 2022 and lived there for a year along with her partner, so she got to see the damage to the home in an up close and personal way.
There were leaks in the windows and the roof, the porches and siding were rotting away, and there was mold everywhere.
The total cost of the repairs totaled tens of thousands of dollars. P also lied about when certain important appliances had last been serviced.
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She attempted to hire a contractor, and P fought her all the way, saying nothing needed to be done and the home was perfectly alright. P then barred a contractor from entering her portion of the house.
“She is emotionally combative towards my family and is generally one of these “woe is me, the world owes me” type of people,” she said.
“We don’t see any signs of dementia or altered sense of reality (I work in the mental health field and am familiar with what these look like) that would explain the behavior, although I suspect a personality disorder. My partner and I now avoid staying there because dealing with her is exhausting.”
“My mom and I want my grandfather to evict her. We feel that she is going to continue to damage the house. My grandfather was initially on board but now is hedging and saying he feels bad and just wants to wait for things to “naturally take their course.”
She’s left wondering if it’s wrong of her to keep pushing her grandpa to evict P, especially since P is financially responsible for supporting her sister, and they only have SSI.
She knows P won’t be able to find another house in the area to move into. She does think that housing is a right everyone should have, but she doesn’t believe it’s fair for them to keep allowing P to live in their home, given that she’s not even living up to her end of the bargain.
What do you think?
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