Reply #141: My friend who recently let me stay with him had that happen...

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It was a family owned building (8 siblings) but only the one brother took care of it.
My friend was renting from him and was planning on buying it.
they had an agreement that for 6 months rent would be low.
the bank had already cleared the check to buy the place, but because of assorted bad luck my friend has had in the past, he had to wait a year.

the year was almost up, and one of the sisters had a rod up her ass and demanded the back rent or for my friend to move out.

My friend had done alot of work on the house.

Mind you there were like 2 months to go, and he was going to BUY THE HOUSE FLAT OUT (well mortgage)!!!

So the sister and the other siblings (none of whom LIVED in MN, but in rather nicer areas, one came from Bel Air) came out to bitch at him and FORCED him to take my friend to court to evict him.

In the end my friend was evicted, but was allowed a month grace to finish a project and to move out, because the one (insert gender-based insult here) sister had to speak up. The judge was so fed up with her constant BS, that he gave the grace and denied the back rent request.

Point being her greed cost them all the sale of that house.

it laid empty for nearly 2 years, until it was bought and gutted.

My friend found another place to live, and I was extremely grateful to him for letting me room there for the winter, but that's another story.

His current land lord, is so happy with him, he has offered to make all previous rent go towards the cost of selling the house to my friend. he's a very good tenant, and always pays on time.

Maybe sometimes a good deed doesnt go punished, but rewarded... but god damn it's rare!