shared family beach house - issue with damaged item

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my husbands family (3 siblings) co-own a beach house and they allow family members to use it. As a result, many of us will leave items there, like beach chairs, year round. Rule is if it is an item that is stashed away and the owner hasn't stated it is for the house to share, you leave it alone or ask to borrow.
We purchased an expensive boogie board last year at the end of the summer season and was used for 2 days. we put it away in the shed, where the owners keep their stuff, not the main shed.
Today, my brother's cousin sent a text to say that the boogie board was damaged by a friend's child and they will reimburse us at 50% since it is used. my husband explained that we just bought it last year and we want it fully replaced and that he should have asked if he could borrow it (we would have said no, as there are other boards for house share. our board was in a different shed so no way to confuse). And the cousin even said he was curious to see how it road and while at the beach, a friends child was jumping on it and it cracked.
Husband and cousin got into an argument and cousin agreed to pay us the full cost to replace. Also want to add that my kids picked this specific one because of the colors and of course, it isnt available anymore so another reason we are annoyed.
One of the owners, my husbands aunt called to say that we made too big of a deal over this and we should have let it go, esp. since we don't pay for the rental.
Fwiw, everyone keeps stuff there that our off limits to others so it isnt just us.

How does your brother have a cousin that isn't also your cousin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is really laying it on thick. Such a special board. Used twice. Must still have the new bougie board smell. Surprised she doesn't want an additional $300 bucks for sentimental value. OP is a common schemer. Cousin knows it, aunt and all the other family know it.

I'm never on the "side" of grown ass adults who continue to mooch their family's properties. They never have any shame or appreciation.

I’m never on the side of people who say grown ass adults. Has your ass grown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my husbands family (3 siblings) co-own a beach house and they allow family members to use it. As a result, many of us will leave items there, like beach chairs, year round. Rule is if it is an item that is stashed away and the owner hasn't stated it is for the house to share, you leave it alone or ask to borrow.
We purchased an expensive boogie board last year at the end of the summer season and was used for 2 days. we put it away in the shed, where the owners keep their stuff, not the main shed.
Today, my brother's cousin sent a text to say that the boogie board was damaged by a friend's child and they will reimburse us at 50% since it is used. my husband explained that we just bought it last year and we want it fully replaced and that he should have asked if he could borrow it (we would have said no, as there are other boards for house share. our board was in a different shed so no way to confuse). And the cousin even said he was curious to see how it road and while at the beach, a friends child was jumping on it and it cracked.
Husband and cousin got into an argument and cousin agreed to pay us the full cost to replace. Also want to add that my kids picked this specific one because of the colors and of course, it isnt available anymore so another reason we are annoyed.
One of the owners, my husbands aunt called to say that we made too big of a deal over this and we should have let it go, esp. since we don't pay for the rental.
Fwiw, everyone keeps stuff there that our off limits to others so it isnt just us.

How does your brother have a cousin that isn't also your cousin?

It's obvious that OP meant husband. Are you really incapable of picking that up from context clues?

[Anonymous]

Thread's so long, I didn't get a chance to read all of it, but if OP bought the boogie board at the end of the season, wouldn't it have been on sale? You can probably find one for 50% off at the end of this season.

[Anonymous]

Very childish to make a big deal of it. Count your blessings - you have access to a free house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thread's so long, I didn't get a chance to read all of it, but if OP bought the boogie board at the end of the season, wouldn't it have been on sale? You can probably find one for 50% off at the end of this season.

Bingo. OP is trying to get over on family. A real miser leech.

[Anonymous]

OP, you are ridiculous! Maybe they should start asking you to pay when you use their beach house (and leave stuff there).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are ridiculous! Maybe they should start asking you to pay when you use their beach house (and leave stuff there).

lThe aunt (co-owner) should deduct a monthly storage fee from the item's alleged cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are ridiculous! Maybe they should start asking you to pay when you use their beach house (and leave stuff there).

The aunt (co-owner) should deduct a monthly storage fee from the item's alleged cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is the worst most insufferable beach house GUEST. Beach house OWNERS are numb to guests using any and all items and equipment, and things breaking, often pricey items. It's the cost of owning a beach house.

Here's the mentally of lifer beach house interloper moochers like OP: Why buy a beach house when we can use one for FREE? They want all the perks of owning a beach house with ZERO of the expenses or liabilities. Imagine being such an entitled prick that you think you can leave large items in the OWNERS' personal garage for months at a time, and demand nobody use them.

OP is an all-around uncouth and entitled tightwad INTERLOPER. And there's zero chance she can prove she paid this much for the item. The whole vibe about it being nearly brand new and a particular color reeks of conniving cheap skate looking to get over on family.

Your post reeks of jealousy and envy. You seem so hung up on the fact that this OP is able to use a family beach house free of charge, and that makes her an interloper, uncouth, a moocher and a prick. Were you the little girl who watched all her friends have things that she couldn't, and silently hated them for it? Who brooded over what she wanted from the outside looking in? Good grief, get a grip.

How can you have this much venom toward an anonymous poster? TIGHTWAD? She paid $275 for a boogie board, so I'm guessing not. INTERLOPER and MOOCHER because she is able to use a family owned beach house where her PARENTS are joint owners? Nope, not if she's invited to use it by one of the co-owners, as one would assume her cousin also was. We get it, if your family had a beach house and offered it up to you for a free week, you would reject this out of ... principle ...and an amazing display of virtue, because you believe parental generosity involving vacation homes makes the recipient a horrible human being. Where is your rage toward the cousin for then being the same?

I'm sorry if you haven't been given similar things in your life and you're resentful of others that are lucky enough to benefit from this, but that doesn't make her a bad person just because she stays at a beach house for free. You don't know if she owns another beach house somewhere else but uses this one once a year because HER PARENTS ALLOW HER TO DO SO. You don't know if she fills the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator while she's there because that's her way of paying her parents and aunt back for allowing her to use the house. You know nothing about what OP spends money on at home or at the beach, other than a $275 boogie board that clearly offends your sensibilities. Seriously, there's probably plenty of blame to go around with all parties involved in this mess and I'm sure OP and her DH aren't free and clear of criticism, but your so-called assessment of this situation is a little alarming. Figure out a way to manage that green eyed envy of yours. You sound unhinged.

Ok OP lol calm yourself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is the worst most insufferable beach house GUEST. Beach house OWNERS are numb to guests using any and all items and equipment, and things breaking, often pricey items. It's the cost of owning a beach house.

Here's the mentally of lifer beach house interloper moochers like OP: Why buy a beach house when we can use one for FREE? They want all the perks of owning a beach house with ZERO of the expenses or liabilities. Imagine being such an entitled prick that you think you can leave large items in the OWNERS' personal garage for months at a time, and demand nobody use them.

OP is an all-around uncouth and entitled tightwad INTERLOPER. And there's zero chance she can prove she paid this much for the item. The whole vibe about it being nearly brand new and a particular color reeks of conniving cheap skate looking to get over on family.

Your post reeks of jealousy and envy. You seem so hung up on the fact that this OP is able to use a family beach house free of charge, and that makes her an interloper, uncouth, a moocher and a prick. Were you the little girl who watched all her friends have things that she couldn't, and silently hated them for it? Who brooded over what she wanted from the outside looking in? Good grief, get a grip.

How can you have this much venom toward an anonymous poster? TIGHTWAD? She paid $275 for a boogie board, so I'm guessing not. INTERLOPER and MOOCHER because she is able to use a family owned beach house where her PARENTS are joint owners? Nope, not if she's invited to use it by one of the co-owners, as one would assume her cousin also was. We get it, if your family had a beach house and offered it up to you for a free week, you would reject this out of ... principle ...and an amazing display of virtue, because you believe parental generosity involving vacation homes makes the recipient a horrible human being. Where is your rage toward the cousin for then being the same?

I'm sorry if you haven't been given similar things in your life and you're resentful of others that are lucky enough to benefit from this, but that doesn't make her a bad person just because she stays at a beach house for free. You don't know if she owns another beach house somewhere else but uses this one once a year because HER PARENTS ALLOW HER TO DO SO. You don't know if she fills the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator while she's there because that's her way of paying her parents and aunt back for allowing her to use the house. You know nothing about what OP spends money on at home or at the beach, other than a $275 boogie board that clearly offends your sensibilities. Seriously, there's probably plenty of blame to go around with all parties involved in this mess and I'm sure OP and her DH aren't free and clear of criticism, but your so-called assessment of this situation is a little alarming. Figure out a way to manage that green eyed envy of yours. You sound unhinged.

Ok OP lol calm yourself

Sure, LOL! Seriously pathetic response from someone who got all hot and heavy, railing on OP in the most vicious way but totally petered out when called out on her instability and jealousy. You know I’m not OP. And I can’t see you but I know you’re ugly as hell inside.

[Anonymous]

Sure OK OP. Try a deep breath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is the worst most insufferable beach house GUEST. Beach house OWNERS are numb to guests using any and all items and equipment, and things breaking, often pricey items. It's the cost of owning a beach house.

Here's the mentally of lifer beach house interloper moochers like OP: Why buy a beach house when we can use one for FREE? They want all the perks of owning a beach house with ZERO of the expenses or liabilities. Imagine being such an entitled prick that you think you can leave large items in the OWNERS' personal garage for months at a time, and demand nobody use them.

OP is an all-around uncouth and entitled tightwad INTERLOPER. And there's zero chance she can prove she paid this much for the item. The whole vibe about it being nearly brand new and a particular color reeks of conniving cheap skate looking to get over on family.

Your post reeks of jealousy and envy. You seem so hung up on the fact that this OP is able to use a family beach house free of charge, and that makes her an interloper, uncouth, a moocher and a prick. Were you the little girl who watched all her friends have things that she couldn't, and silently hated them for it? Who brooded over what she wanted from the outside looking in? Good grief, get a grip.

How can you have this much venom toward an anonymous poster? TIGHTWAD? She paid $275 for a boogie board, so I'm guessing not. INTERLOPER and MOOCHER because she is able to use a family owned beach house where her PARENTS are joint owners? Nope, not if she's invited to use it by one of the co-owners, as one would assume her cousin also was. We get it, if your family had a beach house and offered it up to you for a free week, you would reject this out of ... principle ...and an amazing display of virtue, because you believe parental generosity involving vacation homes makes the recipient a horrible human being. Where is your rage toward the cousin for then being the same?

I'm sorry if you haven't been given similar things in your life and you're resentful of others that are lucky enough to benefit from this, but that doesn't make her a bad person just because she stays at a beach house for free. You don't know if she owns another beach house somewhere else but uses this one once a year because HER PARENTS ALLOW HER TO DO SO. You don't know if she fills the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator while she's there because that's her way of paying her parents and aunt back for allowing her to use the house. You know nothing about what OP spends money on at home or at the beach, other than a $275 boogie board that clearly offends your sensibilities. Seriously, there's probably plenty of blame to go around with all parties involved in this mess and I'm sure OP and her DH aren't free and clear of criticism, but your so-called assessment of this situation is a little alarming. Figure out a way to manage that green eyed envy of yours. You sound unhinged.

DP. You must understand that you also seem completely unhinged, right? Why do you feel the need to be OP’s champion long after she abandoned the thread? PP’s take is bizarre, but recognize that you are also sitting here spewing venom at an anonymous poster.

[Anonymous]

If the OP is still reading, she should report one of the ruder posts from the crazy person who thinks the cousin in the right. I’m guessing this person has puppeted themselves more than a few times.

[Anonymous]

I’m still stuck on the price of the boogie board LOL. Also where are the parents of the kid who broke it? Are they not offering to pay? How old is the kid? If 2, prob not heavy enough. If 8, prob knew better….