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It’s a big complicated mess tbh - all tied up in family disputes.
I’m knackered, my backs knackered, I’m pissed off because I was desperate to catch up on much needed rest, I feel like I wasted a holiday, and on top of all that I m stressed out because my relatives have essentially rinsed a load of my gran’s money on the place but have chosen to tart it up rather than deal with the painstakingly obvious issues like the gutters overflowing with moss, the huge damp issues relating to the roof and the whole side of the house that needs repointing. Then on top of that the work to tart the place up is pretty mediocre, so the whole illusion of having it as a holiday let for income os just pure fantasy, it’s just a way for my relatives to scrounge a holiday home for free off my gran.It’s the whole reason we haven’t tried to stay there for years - it’s a complete shitshow that causes more stress than it saves. We’d always camped instead but we’re not quite ready to try that with a baby just yet.
NB. I am aware that complaining about a family holiday cottage isn’t the worst problem in the world to have, but here we are.
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ugh, that all sounds totally rant worthy.
my aunt (who has plenty of money herself) used her kids to rinse a shit ton out of my nan before she passed (she paid for all the kids activities and outings, pocket money, school clothes etc, while not paying a penny to her other grandchildrens kids. then when the house was sold after her death and all the insurance stuff paid out she claimed my nan had borrowed money off her while alive and was owed a giant share of the estate. she was also named as the executor of the estate. this is also after my grandad had died so was the full estate and included one of those really fucking cushy pensions from when ford was at dagenham and the unions had them by the bollocks.
I was promised by her and her fella at my nans wake I'd get a bit of money as my nan would have wanted me to ( i grew up with my mum's side of my family and am sort of an outsider on that side of things) and my dad would be looked after properly (having suffered a stroke 5 years prior and being unable to work since), never saw a single penny.
on my mums side, my aunt did similar with my nans jewellry (which was probably the only thing of worth she left) having sold my nan her diamond rings when the shithouse who proposed cheated on her and she didn't want them, only to take them without consent of the 4 other siblings after she died claiming she was entitled to them as the dickhead cheater died the year before and she wanted them to remember him by, then she took all the stuff from the estate she wanted and cut ties with everyone for 2 years to avoid any backlash. she would make me do the washing up at her house before she'd let me use her phone to call my mum to come pick me after I'd been playing with my cousins when I was a kid so she was at least true to her core morals I suppose.
HatBeard
ahh the fact you said holiday made me assume it was a paid accommodation you were staying in not a family holiday home.
I can understand cutting corners a bit more when it's just family (for better or worse) and not for profit.