It's even worse when it's the in-laws
My husband declined his half-share in the family home so that his brother would have a solid financial start. The twat proceeded to do up the family home with out-of-scale, contemporary cabinetry, furniture, and plush carpet, rip out the garden and its lovely (and expensive) old plantings. And in place of those plantings, put up one of those awful metal assemble-yourself sheds directly in front of the "picture windows" so we had a lovely view from half the house.

I've bitten my tongue bloody but I did slip once and mention that some of the local plant nurseries would have bought and professionally removed those plantings, paying him enough to fund some of the "improvements." Oops.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 17:25, Reply)