It all started when my uncle aunt and cousins and grandparents moved to the flat we owned. At first everything was normal but it started when my dad hired my uncle to help him paint houses and such. A month later my uncle fell off the ladder and when he was painting a house even though he didnt even break anything he sued my dad for millions of dollars. Then they started leaving the T.V on and such to waste electricity sine we payed the electric bills. When my grandma died they blames on my parents. Because of all this my parents are planning to move to an apartment for awhile until we find our new home but the apartments that we live close to me and my sisters school do not allow pets and that means my dog can not come and has to be put in a shelter. My dad also will have to quit his job which payed 60$an hour. I keep telling them that they have to stand up for them selves but they would not listen to me because they think Im to young to understand. What should I do?
2007-10-01 15:25:28 · 4 answers · asked by goldddw1 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
You have strong morals and you need to keep on at your parents. This is a terrible situation that your parents are in and it must be very akward to live around someone who has sued you. I would be making them pack their bags & leave.
Stand up for your parents, show them how much you see is wrong.
2007-10-01 17:26:08 · answer #1 · answered by ~Sheila~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your parents need to give a solid drop-dead deadline for having them out of your flat... issue it in writing as well as verbal. 2 weeks, max.
Your dad needs to talk to the management company about this... it will involve an apology for allowing people who are not on the lease to move in, but they have the wherewithall to get rid of your uncle and his family... the management company can have them removed any time they want. The management can go to the courthouse, pay a small fee and have them evicted by the police.
Chances are there is another apartment in the same complex so hopefully that might mean that you wouldn't have to give up your pet. Your dad could do well by packing up the family and moving you all to "corporate housing"... which is kind of like a motel, but only set up like an apartment. Already furnished and has a kitchenette. Hopefully it will only be for a couple of weeks.
The minute your family is out of that apartment, call the power & phone companies and have service cut. You are not there and will not be paying the bills.
This has to be a unified, coordinated effort. It is basically WAR. Hopefully these freeloaders will never darken your doorstep again.
When your family relocates while waiting for removal of the uncle's brood, please remove all electronics, and any other valuables, belonging to your family from the place and store them somewhere. Maybe send the upholstered furniture out to be cleaned. You don't want these twits ripping everything off because they think they are entitled. You can say that you had to hock them to pay bills.
Your dad should not have to quit his job for any reason if he does his job well.
Print this Yahoo Answers page out and give it to your parents.
2007-10-02 00:45:44 · answer #2 · answered by revsuzanne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible that your parents realize that there is nothing they could say to change these relatives of theirs and feel the best thing they could do is get away from them! When they sell the flat the relatives will be someone else's problem.
Your dad may have another job lined up that will compensate him just as well as the last one. You'll have to wait and see on that issue.
And I agree with another answerer that you should ask your friends if they could take your dog until you have another home that allows pets.
These things do tend to work themselves out in time, and I hope you are able to roll with the changes that occur. They may be for the better.
2007-10-02 00:09:37 · answer #3 · answered by dizzkat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your uncle and his family sound like awful people who are taking advantage of your parent's generosity. It's hard for you, as a child, to understand how much of their growing up and other family relationships are affecting your dad's decisions right now. My guess is that your uncle figured that if your father was insured, suing your father wouldn't affect his personally, it was just an easy way to get money out of the insurance company.
Is there a chance that a friend of yours could take care of your dog for a while, until you move? I would be upset to lose my dog, too, especially if it was someone else's fault. Perhaps you could offer to pay for the dog's "room and board" until you move into a house?
I'm sorry you're having to deal with this. It's a tricky situation for adults, I can't imagine a young person having to deal with it. :-(
2007-10-01 23:23:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋