{"id":21764,"date":"2024-11-20T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=21764"},"modified":"2024-11-20T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:24:43","slug":"i-refuse-to-let-my-dads-widow-live-rent-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=21764","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Let My Dad\u2019s Widow Live Rent-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad died and gave me his house. I asked his wife to pay me rent with the $10k he left her or go live with her son.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cThis was my home for years; shame on you!\u201d I had no choice but to evict her. Years passed, and she was silent.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, she called and demanded to see me. I froze when I found out that the new, small apartment she was living in was bought by my dad.<\/p>\n<p>She said he used the rest of his savings to buy it for her before he died, so she\u2019d have a safe place if she was ever kicked out.<\/p>\n<p>She signed a deal saying the flat would go to me after she passed if she stayed in the house she shared with my dad.<\/p>\n<p>But if she was forced to leave, she could give it to anyone-and now, she\u2019s leaving it to her son. After the shock faded, I felt furious.<\/p>\n<p>All I did was protect my rights. My stepmother had money, so she could have paid; the house is not a free hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part is that I\u2019ve been lied to: I had no idea about this apartment, and I feel betrayed that the property my dad paid for is going to her son instead of me.<\/p>\n<p>What should I do?<br \/>\nRebecca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad died and gave me his house. I asked his wife to pay me rent with the $10k he left her or go live with her son. She said, \u201cThis was my home for years; shame on you!\u201d I had no choice but to evict her. Years passed, and she was silent. Yesterday, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21765,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions\/21765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}