“No good deed goes unpunished” means that sometimes, when you’re kind, it comes back to bite you in an unexpected and negative way.
That’s her reality for her right now, as she literally put a roof over her best friend’s head and helped her out in her time of need, only to have her best friend threaten to sue her and have her sister beat her up. Yikes.
Three years ago, this young woman began renting a trailer she owned to her best friend and her husband. She only charged them $300 a month in rent, which included garbage and their water bill.
The trailer has one bathroom and two bedrooms, and it’s not new, but it’s a nice place to call home. She lives in a rural part of Kentucky, but rental prices are through the roof, and she could have rented the trailer for $600 to $700 a month.
But, she adores her best friend and wanted to do her a favor, which is why she gave her the trailer for well below market price.
“At the time, I had just inherited the property at 19 years old and was already overwhelmed with the expenses that came with it. I told them upfront that I didn’t have the money to put into fixing the trailer up yet, but they were welcome to make small improvements if they wanted to,” she explained.
“It wasn’t in perfect shape, but it definitely wasn’t terrible either. They painted, added some trim, and did a few small things, which I appreciated and never had a problem with.”
“They were moving back home because her husband had taken a significant pay cut and needed somewhere affordable to stay. Fast forward to about a year or a year and a half ago. They started asking me about selling them a small piece of my property.”
They asked about it so frequently that she caved and agreed. However, they didn’t bring it up again until a couple of days ago. Her best friend stated that she had drawn up paperwork for the sale, and she just had to sign her name.
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She informed her best friend that she had a change of heart, apologized, and offered to give her money for what it had cost her to have the sale paperwork created.
Her best friend had given her a rent payment for the month along with the papers, so she returned that money to her bestie. Following this exchange, her best friend threatened to sue her and have her sister fight her.
Then, her best friend’s husband cursed her out. Not wanting the drama, she gave her best friend a 60-day notice to move out of the trailer and generously said she didn’t have to pay her rent for those last months.
Her best friend and her husband were furious with her, and she understands. She would be unhappy, too, if she were in their shoes.
“I really didn’t want things to turn out this way. But at the same time, I didn’t want to sell part of my property either. They had asked about it for months before I finally agreed, and I just changed my mind,” she continued.
“After I gave them the notice, they said they were just angry and didn’t mean what they said. They also told me that I had ‘ruined their life and future,’ and that I’m a ‘messed up person.'”
“The truth is, I never wanted to evict them. But when someone you’ve known for 15 years threatens to sue you and says they’re going to have someone fight you, that’s something I take seriously. I would never say anything like that to her or about her.”
While she sympathizes with her best friend, she threatened her, and that’s not fair. If the tables were turned and she were the one trying to buy property from her bestie, she never would have treated her in such a horrible way.
She’s left wondering if she’s wrong for making her best friend find somewhere else to live.
She’s been nothing but kind to her best friend, and it’s a shame her best friend didn’t appreciate that at all. She’s doing the right thing, evicting her best friend, because she’s taking advantage of her.
Also, I suspect their friendship won’t survive the eviction, but that’s ok, because this isn’t a good person for her to have in her inner circle.
What do you think?
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