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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the owners is my husband's father. The other 2 owners are the dads brother and sister (cousin's mom).
The boogie board was $275.
The child that broke the board wasn't staying at the house, but they were all at the beach at the same time.
We have other things at the house that we allow others to use and these are in the main shed or in the house. I disagree with some of you about just letting this go. The rules of the house were clear. [b]We have not had issues in the past 12 years that we have been using it.[/b] If it was me who damaged something, I'd replace it, and we did this once when we bought a new beach umbrella when the old one another cousin contributed broke as I was opening it.
Glad the cousin finally agreed to compensate us and annoyed his mom is getting in the middle.
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This is all I need to know to know you overreacted. Twelve years without issues doesn't mean once there is an issue it's a bigger deal.  One issue divided over twelve years of shared house use means it should hardly even register as an issue.

I would bet money that you don't like this cousin or his mom and that's your real problem, not the boogie board damage. [/quote]

My guess is that there have been issues over the years, but nobody has made a big deal about them, and so, OP never heard about it.

My take: Cousin is an idiot, Aunt is probably a b**** (and the self-appointed hall monitor for the beach house), and OP and husband played their hand wrong in this situation.[/quote]

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