I (At the time, I was 18 years old) I babysat this girl for four years. Her mom was a single mom, and I was close to both of them. When my mom passed away, I offered to let them move into my house. It’s a four-bedroom, two-bathroom, 2,500 square foot house. She accepted my offer, so I helped her get in touch with the trust fund that owns the property so she could secure a lease. She was going to have the master bedroom for $600 per month. She signed the lease and was thrilled about moving in. At that point, her daughter became my little sister. I watched her for free, took her on field trips, and attended every school event. She means the world to me.
As the move-in day approached, her mom had some minor issues, like the house not being professionally cleaned and the puppy we got not being potty trained yet. I also had friends over. I scheduled a house cleaner to come two days later and planned to board the puppy. Despite my efforts, it wasn’t enough to satisfy her.
On move-in day, she stormed in and woke me up, asking if I still wanted them to move in. Obviously, I said yes, but she kept asking the whole day. I eventually stopped responding because I had already answered her question. Then, she started saying things when I was completely silent. Eventually, she freaked out and wanted to break the lease, claiming it was “my fault.” The trust fund clearly didn’t consider her part of this lease; only her and the trust were on it.
She then convinced her daughter that I never loved her, that I was dangerous, and that I wanted to hurt them and make them homeless. Authorities were called, but there was no violence. Am I in the wrong for calling the authorities?
sounds like a classic case of someone not appreciating a good deal. you tried to help but she apparently missed the memo on gratitude.
600 a month is a fricking steal.
NTA!
You’ve done all you can to help, you’re young yourself, have been through your own trauma. She’s a grown woman! She shouldn’t be passive aggressive and trying to get a rise from you, and turning the little girl against you…despicable. weaponising emotions is always wrong.
NTAH.
She probably got scared of the money she had to pay to be there.
600$ a month is insane. I don’t mean insane as in, you’re a bad person for making her pay that, if anything it’s probably a very good deal for the space, but for a regular single mother that kind of money is tough to find.
Do you know if she lost a job or had debts or something?
You provided almost zero details on what actually happened, other than that you stopped responding to her after being asked the same question over and over. Why did she freak out? Why did she blame you?
I don’t understand the sentence about the trust fund not considering her part of the lease, then right after, ‘only her and the trust are on it’.
If she was just being literally crazy, obviously NTA.
Agreed. This is poorly written.
NTA, but you need to stop this nonsense and stick up for yourself! You are doing THEM a favor.
This woman’s overbearing entitlement will only get worse. And I ca. see the update to this in 6 months “I tried to be nice and now this woman is demanding I give them my house and pay them each month to live with them, am I wrong?”
This isn’t a situation you can win.
This isn’t a situation you can “nice” your way out of.
Kick them out fast.
NTA seems this woman has some sort of mental health issues. Do not offer your house up like that again. You have to vet and screen people, check their background, see if they have any incidents with the police and do a credit check as well. 600 for the master bedroom and this person still couldn’t act right and got weird on you. I guarantee you , the lies she projected on you about being dangerous and wanting to hurt them is something she could easily do to you . She made herself homeless and wanted someone else to blame.
You dodged a bullet , do not let her near you ever again. I feel sorry for that kid but she is hers and there’s not much you can do about that. I know you had good intentions but you could have possibly been hurt. NTA but make this a lesson learned. You can’t be nice to everyone you feel sorry for. She’s likely bipolar or schizophrenic and you’re lucky you didnt wake up with her holding a knife to your neck. Be careful in the future.
NTA, also take this as a lesson. if it’s yours, do not let ANYONE ELSE put their name on it. she sounds like the type that would try to take the house over from you and try to kick you out because her name is on the lease. don’t give her that satisfaction. and she needs to be more grateful that she’s basically getting free childcare from you and cheap housing.
> She signed the lease and was thrilled about moving in. At that point, her daughter became my little sister. I watched her for free, took her on field trips, and attended every school event. She means the world to me.
As the move-in day approached,
What? How was there time between signing a lease and moving in for all of that?
> The trust fund clearly didn’t consider her part of this lease; only her and the trust were on it.
You need better AI prompts, this is terrible.
I don’t understand any of this. Her daughter became your little sister before they moved in? Was the mother on the lease or not? Why only lease the master bedroom, did the daughter have a bedroom too? What’s wrong with expecting it to be professionally cleaned before moving in? Were you planning to board the dog permanently? None of this makes any sense. I’m not buying it.