So a while ago, my "friend" of my parents' (who was really her real estate agent that she became a bit friendly with) called her really late one night asking her for a huge favor. The woman's house was being foreclosed, and because she had no room at her new place, wanted to leave some furniture in our garage. At that time, my parents had just purchased the house not a month or two (which she knew about - her company handled our closing), and because my parents rarely opted to park in the garage, my parents agreed for her furniture to take home temporarily (a month) there. The next morning at 6 a.m., she u-hauled two huge refrigerators, a wine cooler, and a 12 foot dining room table with six chairs, WAY more than what she said she had. But not trying to create trouble, my parents reluctantly accepted out of empathy of her situation.
FAST FORWARD FOUR YEARS. Yes, four years. Her shitty furniture is still eating up half our garage. During the first six months of when she dropped of the furniture, my parents emailed her weekly to see when she would be picking it up. She forged various excuses: on vacation, sick, really sick, out of the country. Eventually she told my parents that she would not be able to take back the furniture and begged them to help her sell it, and again, because my parents were nice people, posted tons of ads to our community and to craigslist even though they had absolutely no obligation to do so and should be livid at the situation. In the end, nothing got sold - she was so ridiculous and inflexible on her pricing (asking for thousands for an used dining room table with burn marks and scratches), no one wanted to buy anything. Again, we asked her again and again to remove the furniture from our house, or at least let us dispose of it by donating it.
Eventually, because she responded less and less, weekly reminders turned into monthly reminders turned into a reminder every few months or so. Then, out of the blue, like two years after our last email to her, she sends someone to "collect" the furniture. Better yet? She didn't show, and the person picking it up, another "friend," told us she didn't want to deal with us herself because she was completely angry at us for not selling her furniture for her and is thus demanding her furniture back!
My parents and I are absolutely livid at this point. Not only did they go out of their way to post up listing of the furniture for her, they also stored the furniture for her for free for FOUR YEARS. Who does that? All they got was shit talked behind their back. So they curtly told the man to leave, and that should she want to pick up the furniture, she would have to come personally and pay a storage fee (something like $50/year/furniture) in exchange for their trouble. Or else, all of the furniture would be donated.
I should mention that this woman owns her own real estate company and lives comfortably and should have NO reason to be stingy about the furniture money.
Thus comes the he said/she said game. The woman sent an angry text - through the man, mind you - about how she's known all along that we were gold-diggers out for her shit, and how if we can charge her a storage fee, she should have charged my mom for the hours she spent on the phone with her during their brief friendship (the quote used was "her debt to me [for listening to her phone calls] should have been up in the thousands already"). She then goes on to say that my parents are the absolutely worst people she's ever met, and "the bitches" have "ugly hearts." She then ends the message with how she no longer cares for the furniture and doesn't want it back anyway - it's been "tainted by their gross smell."
How do you think we should respond???
Submitted February 03, 2016 at 11:29AM by throwaway129301231 http://ift.tt/2083MDM rant
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