Buying a run-down house to fix it up and sell it can be a great way to make money if you know what you are doing.

What would you do if you purchased a fixer-upper with your brother to try to make some money, but he was taking forever to plan out the repairs?

That is what this brother is facing, and his family thinks he needs to give his brother more time (it has been five years!).

Check out the details and see what you think.

AITA for forcing my brother to buy me out?

5 years ago, Me and my brother bought a house to do a total renovation.

My brother wants to save money to an absurd degree, and thus he wanted to draw the plans himself.

Seems like a good way to save money.

He has a degree for that so that wasn’t a problem for me.

Five years is very excessive.

The problem is that we are 5 years further and we don’t have any finished plans.

He has made a bunch of completely unrealistic plans that I shut down (renovations up in the 600k for a 2 bedroom house)

And he doesn’t want an actual architect doing the work.

I am tired of this.

How can you live in these conditions?

We were living in said house that needed to be renovated, but since there were no plans, I couldn’t do anything legally, as the building needs a new foundation to start with, a new roof, new exterior walls, etc.

The living conditions are complete garbage.

There is no heating, except an electrical heater, that struggles to keep a few meters from not freezing in winter.

The water is cold as there is no heater.

The wind just goes through the building.

Work should have started on day one.

The renovations would have been 300K, when using napkin math, but it never started.

So, as i was absolutely tired of living like a HOBO, i bought a tiny house, and am now in process of forcing my brother to either sell the dump, or buy me out.

The entire family thinks that I should have given him more time to draw the plans and that I am an jerk for wanting to get away from that mess of a house legally.

AITA?

Five years is a really long time to renovate a house, who can blame him for wanting to get out of this deal?

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say.

Yes, let the family get involved.

This commenter thinks the brother is happy living this way.

This person says six months is reasonable, five years is excessive.

It is time to move on.

Yup, let the family members get invested.

Five years of living in a broken down home is way too much.

The brother never intends to go through with it.

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