AITA for putting a lien on my brother’s house and refusing to remove it until he pays me.
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AITA for putting a lien on my brother’s house and refusing to remove it until he pays me.
I do house renovations as a business. Even when I do work for family and friends at a discount I have a contract.
My nephews are getting bigger and they want seperate rooms. My brother asked me to help him finish his basement, make a couple of rooms down there, add a washroom, add a kitchenette, and wire up a family room.
I priced it out and said I would charge him $32,000 including materials. This was a sizeable discount. The bathroom alone I would charge anyone else 15,000. His wasn’t even roughed in.
He never paid me. He always had excuses. I paid for the material and I paid my guys for the work. We did it when I had downtime so I didn’t lose out on other money but it still sucked to get shafted.
So I put a construction lien on the house. He didn’t care and I wasn’t going to make him homeless.
That was two years ago. Now he got a new job and has to move. And to get a new house he has to sell his current house. Which he can’t do because their is a lien against the property.
He called me to get me to remove it. He promised he would pay me as soon as it sold. I told him “f****k you pay me”.
My parents called me to tell me that they would pay what he owes. I said I would agree so long as he paid them back and if he didn’t then any money he didn’t pay back had to come out of any inheritance we were getting, god forbid. And that interest started accruing from the day of the “loan”. They agreed that that was fair.
My brother called me to scream at me for involving my parents and out inheritance. I reminded him that he involved them not me.
He finally took money out from a line of credit and paid me. With interest. I’m a reasonable man.
The house sold over asking and the finished basement suite made a huge difference on what he got.
He is still pissed at me for doing it but I did everything legal and by the books.
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