When personal favors and business deals mix, things can get complicated fast.

Imagine you’re buying a home from a family friend, but she keeps pushing her move-out date back because her new place isn’t ready, but you’re running out of time in your current lease. Would you sacrifice and let her stay? Or would you hold firm on this date?

In the following story, one couple finds themselves dealing with this exact situation, and they are tired of waiting. Here’s what’s going on.

AITA for forcing the seller of our house out before her new place was ready?

I (25F) and my husband (25M) moved into an apartment in Oct. of ’22 and had been looking for a house.

In Jan. of ’23, one of my mom’s friends (we’ll call her Mary(60?F)) told my mom that she was moving into a condo about an hour away from where her house was so that she could be closer to her mom.

Mary is also mentally disabled from a work accident years ago but is able to live alone and take care of herself.

This sounds like a great deal!

She asked if we wanted to take a look at the house and we loved it and said we were interested in moving forward.

We agreed on no realtors and to use real estate lawyers.

We were also getting a discounted price.

At this point, she mentioned that her condo was still under construction with a projected finish date of June.

That was okay with us, and we began the process in April.

After months of setbacks, they finally set a date for October.

As with most construction projects, there were delays, so we were patient with her as our original time frame of going to settlement and moving in June/July passed us by.

I had talked to her in August, asking if my husband and I moving in on October 1st works for the timing of her condo being finished.

She said that it would, and I told her that was great and that I would let my landlord know that we would be breaking our lease.

I also informed our real estate lawyer and asked him to set the settlement date accordingly.

All was good, except she told her lawyer a different date.

Less than a week later, I received an angry email from my lawyer stating that he was quitting because Mary and I had been making plans behind his back that he was not aware of.

Apparently, she had told her lawyer that we agreed to settle on October 25th, which was not what we had discussed.

I emailed him back and resolved the issue, but we were not to contact the owner without him.

This is where I feel like I might be in the wrong.

Someone isn’t going to have a place to live.

My husband and I, along with our lawyer, had an incredibly uncomfortable conversation with her about how she needed to be out by no later than October 13th because our lease was up on the 15th.

She was crying and saying that she had no one to help her move out and that her condo was not complete because they had not installed safety bars in the shower yet.

I explained that we would not have a place to live if she was not out and that settlement was 2 weeks prior to when we asked her to move out, so she would be living in a house that no longer belongs to her.

They tried helping Mary come up with some alternatives.

I also said she has the ability to live with her mother while the bars get installed. I said there are many services available that will pack and move your stuff for you.

She ignored what I said and continued to cry and actually was whimpering and calling for her mommy.

I ended the call because I was so uncomfortable.

Now OP’s mom is involved.

She cried to my mom on the phone about this.

I told my mom my side of the story, but she continued to mention that I wasn’t being reasonable and should have allowed her to stay longer.

I feel I was patient and accommodating throughout the process.

We have been in the house for months, but my parents still don’t approve of how I handled it.

AITA?

Yikes! That’s a really tough situation on both sides.

Let’s see how readers over at Reddit reacted to this story.

This is so true.

Well, when they put it that way.

Here’s someone who thinks the lawyers should be handling everything.

This about sums it up.

They could’ve been a bit more understanding.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.