Would you let an old friend stay at your vacation house off season?

[Anonymous]

I don't think you want anything "official" that implies tenant rights. It should be free and as someone else suggested, you could give her 2-3 small projects to deal with while she's on site like letting in the electrician or giving a check to the leaf blowing guys. The only thing that I'd be a stickler about is the deadline for when she moves out. This should be tied to a third party activity that is outside of your control, like the plumbers start work on the new showers and the water will stop working, so nobody could stay there. Make a plan that you'll go there the weekend before she is due to move out to help her load her car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course. I would always want to help out family of very good friend. I’d hope someone would do the same if the situations were reversed.

This is the sane answer!

[Anonymous]

I would not.
From what you describe she doesn’t sound like that great of a friend if she ghosted you after she divorced…….

[Anonymous]

this is a bad idea. she is barely your friend anymore.

this is something you MIGHT do for a GREAT friend that ran into bad times, not a freeloading friend from long ago.

if you feel she is going to ask, change the subject or end the phone call or whatever. this arrangement would not end well.

[Anonymous]

People are REALLY struggling to read this post, aren't they?

OP says this about the friend:
-CHILDHOOD best friend. (none of this "this is my best friend who I see multiple times a week" like some of you keep projecting)
-yada yada, they have history
-Since covid (2020?) they've met up TWICE.
-They do not text, aside from the occasional "your kids are getting so big"
-Up until last year, OP hadn't seen this friend in FOUR YEARS, despite them being a short drive from each other.

This friend:
-Divorced
-Doesn't work/never has
-Used to mooch off dad til he died
-Now mooches off elderly mother
-Displaced due to a fire-not-fire

OP, you know what? Do it. Let them all move in. then come back and tell us how bad of a decision it was.

[Anonymous]

It has disaster written all over it. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

No way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$1k a night is bizarre. And a brand new house for you guys? What does your spouse think?

I can rent a huge hamptons house for $40k a month in summer and split it 5 ways.

No you can’t. $40k is a weekly price not monthly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$1k a night is bizarre. And a brand new house for you guys? What does your spouse think?

I can rent a huge hamptons house for $40k a month in summer and split it 5 ways.

No you can’t. $40k is a weekly price not monthly

No one cares about this troll post nor the troll math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$1k a night is bizarre. And a brand new house for you guys? What does your spouse think?

I can rent a huge hamptons house for $40k a month in summer and split it 5 ways.

Why is that bizarre? We could rent the house for 10k per week in the summer.

The cost of the potential rental is somewhat irrelevant since we probably won’t rent it. It is more about the relationship of an old friend who I rarely talk to or see.

She likely ghosted and disappeared due to her poverty and feelings about her own poverty

I never considered her being in poverty. She is forever the friend who is supported by her parents but her dad passed away years ago. She has no income and gets money from her mom. Her mom is now old and also no longer in good financial standing.

Something happened to their house. Like a fire but not a fire that made the home not livable. I don’t think they have the cash to pay for repairs so they are displaced.

Troll

[Anonymous]

Stupid idea. She'll never leave. You're a complete idiot if you allow her to move in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course. I would always want to help out family of very good friend. I’d hope someone would do the same if the situations were reversed.

This is the sane answer!

This is the answer of someone who is ignorant about property rights/issues. Your response is all about promoting yourself as a selfless hero/martyr when in reality we know you don't own any property that would put you in this position.