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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the thing about summer homes that are misrepresented by the owner as "everyone's" - owner likes the idea of family time spent there, but as title holder does not want to share control.  
I get it - I've helped do physical labor and maintain my Ex-DH's family summer home that was constantly being represented as a shared retreat for all of us.  That's the only way they can get their guests (i.e. kids and grandkids) to pitch in and rake, caulk, open/close the pool, deal with the failing septic, etc... But, at the end of the day, nobody but his parents could invite guests and if anybody dared to invite a friend, the parents made sure to park themselves there on the couch and let everyone know who was boss.  
Dear OP, it's not truly a shared home and your DD's sentimentality is misplaced.  She's at a good age to understand the social power dynamics of holding /not-holding landed gentry status.  And so she should never get roped into cleaning gutters that does not belong to her.

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