Reddit Entitled Parents

"We need that house more than you, because we have kids"

Edit: BIL = brother in law. FIL = father in law

A quick vent.

Five years ago, my husband and I bought a house. We'd been saving for years for the down payment and the stars must have aligned for us to get it. Everything worked out perfectly. The house was a major fixer-upper, but it had land and we were happy with that!

Turns out BIL had looked at the house when it was listed as well. They decided it was too much work to fix up and not worth it. They wanted major upgrades too, whereas my husband and I are very simple people. We don't need granite countertops or a soaking tub or hardwood throughout.

Met up with the family recently and the BIL was talking about how cramped their condo has become with two kids now. BIL decided this was the time to tell us that we should trade houses.

I shit you not. (BIL is very, very entitled)

BIL proceeded to argue that we are only two people and their family is growing and could use the space. Literally suggested that we give ours to him and buy out his condo.

I laughed. I knew he was serious but I couldn't help but laugh. I'd never, in my life, imagined someone could be so damn ENTITLED that they demand someone give up their HOME for the sake of another family.

Are you kidding me?!

BIL then got MAD at me for not even considering it, and began justifying all the reasons his family needed our house more.

Oh, you think this would be the worst part, right? No! It gets better.

We never finished the basement, so there is only one bathroom in the house. BIL informed me that if we were to trade houses that we would need to make some major upgrades first, because he wouldn't have time to be able to make any renovations. He was somehow, inexplicably certain, that I would see the logic in this plan and just... trade houses with them. Because they needed the extra space so much more.

And now my BIL isn't talking to me, because I laughed through the whole thing and wouldn't take him seriously.

Win-win. Go ahead, punish me by not talking to me. At least then you'll stop trying to make me the bad guy because I have two spare rooms I 'don't use' (my husband and I each have an office) and tell everyone how horrible I am because I wouldn't buy out your condo at market value while giving you ours out of the goodness of our hearts.

Last I know, he was now trying to tell my FIL to retire and move into the city so that they could have the farm.

Jokes on him... FIL already talked about it and has left the farm to me and my husband in his will. Because we actually farm, and BIL thinks its too much work.

I always thought the internet exaggerated that people like this exist. I thought situations like this couldn't possibly be real.

What the hell are these people thinking?!

- u/NegativeBarracuda