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Mar
21
Advice: Someone overheard a conversation in which I was talking about them?
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My husbands brother and his wife rent one of or rental houses from us. They have been living there for 2yrs. and have only paid the rent “on time” and in full for the 1st 4months. After that it was always late, or half, or $100/$200 short….etc. About 6 months ago I finally put my foot down and had to draw the line. They were, yet again late on rent. Explained to my husband that they had NO MONEY and were flat broke. Found out the next day that they took off on a road trip to visit family. This made me very angry since my husband and I were left to penny pinch to make sure the mortgage got paid on their home. I phoned my sister in law and let her know that we could not do this anymore. She either leaves or rent MUST be paid on time. She responded with “Fine! give me my notice and I’ll see you in court!”.
We didn’t speak for months, but my husband was on speaking terms. He is somewhat of a push over and I was a little angry that he didn’t hold ground with me, but whatever…it’s his family.
Anyhow, so here we are 6 months later and they have been late 3 times, and are borrowing money from us etc.
This last rent check came $200 short and my husband phoned his brother to remind him he mush pay the $200 on his next rent check. My husband concluded the phone conversation with his brother and thought he hung up. He didn’t and the line was still open and his brother over heard us talking about the situation. My husband and I were both venting and frustrated. It was about a 10min conversation. Next thing you know I get a text message from my sis-in-law that states “next time make sure you hangs up the phone before you start talking about us. we heard the whole conversation.”.
Now what do I do? We did not personally insult them, but we were venting and were angry and upset (as we should be) and everything that was said was nothing very different from what we’ve told them before.
I don’t feel like I should apologize, since I have every right to be upset. However I did not mean for them to hear that conversation between my husband and I.
Not sure how to deal with this. Do I apologize? Do I call and not apologize and just explain that naturally we are frustrated and that was us venting? Do I ignore it completely? This is family so I do want to tread very carefully and not cause anymore tension than there already is. They hate us. Even though THEY are the ones that are cheating us!
Help!
Oct
13
Can i rent out my house, move in to flat with cheaper rent and still claim job seekers?
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