When you are doing well for yourself, it can be a good thing to help friends or family.

What would you do if you gave a family member a great deal when they purchased your house, but then they tried to turn around and sell it for the full value within weeks?

That is what happened to the engineer in this story, so he began the process of ruining their property value until they agreed to sell it back to him for the original price.

Check it out.

High on the Hogs: A story of pro family revenge.

So one of my brothers is adopted and is amazing.

He didn’t get anything handed to him in life and he’s seriously one of the hardest working people I know.

Just as he was starting his own family he had even more financial burden due to some medical problems.

Still, somehow he managed to build half a house on some land my Dad sold him.

Glad to see he is finding success.

He used the equity in that to get a second loan and finish it (and he had to fight the bank for that even).

Time goes on and he begins to do really well — so he sells the first house he built at a profit and buys some land.

Like, 175 acres in the midwest (he lives in a rural area).

He likes to hunt and does some farming on the land but the house that was there when he bought it isn’t ideal, despite some major improvements and renovation.

So he builds a third house and puts the house up for sale.

He keeps the land around the house for hunting (this is important later).

This is when one of his envious family members asks if he and his wife would consider selling them the house.

This is very nice of him.

They can only qualify for something like half of what it’s worth, but my brother is a fairly generous guy — he agrees to sell the house to them at a rather hefty discount since they’re family.

I’m sure he felt some of their pain as well — he’d had his own difficulty back when he was starting out.

The bank agrees to loan them the money (they can’t go wrong, it’s for way less than the property is worth) and the deal is done.

A few short months go by.

He’s driving by the property and spots a for sale sign.

He stops in and the husband explains that there were some things about the house they weren’t happy with, so they were planning on selling it and buying a house more in town or something (etc).

My brother explains that they got a sweet deal only because they were family and that he’d appreciate them selling the house back to him for what he sold it to them for.

The husband basically closes the door on that — and my brother leaves.

And he thinks about it.

I’m 100% certain that the family members understood that they were getting a good deal because they were family and he was happier selling it to them with the understanding that they weren’t to take advantage of his good graces.

This is a guy, by the way, that manages big projects.

He’s a really fair guy.

He clearly knows what he is doing.

The stuff he does in construction probably half of you have driven over — big bridges that go over rivers like the Mississippi for example.

He’s used to solving hard problems.

This one isn’t that hard.

The next day he drives out with some fence in the back of his truck, and the family members in the house wake up to some fence posts being driven into the ground.

The husband comes out. “What’s going on?” he asks.

“I’m just putting up some Hog fence on my property.

Don’t worry, it’s all on my land — I’ll just go around your house here and put a gate in so you can get in and out.”

The husband is a bit perplexed. “You’re bringing in pigs?”

And my brother was seriously set to do it too.

Wow, he was set to destroy their property value.

He had about 100 lined up from a farmer down the road.

The husband goes back into the house.

A few minutes of “discussion” occur.

The next day they all meet at the bank and the deed is transferred back to my brother.

And he didn’t even have to deploy the hogs…

That is a weird threat, but it definitely worked.

Let’s see what the people in the comments think about it.

I guess hogs are always a good answer to problems.

Yes, dealing with family can cause problems.

I wish he had said it as well.

Sadly, they often have a disappointing ending.

It has a great ending.

Who knew hogs could solve family problems?

They’re so much more than bacon!

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