Being financially successful is a wonderful thing — that is, until those around you start leeching off your good fortune.

When one man shared his plans for homeownership with his family, his mother quickly began guilt tripping him about housing his struggling sister. What should have been a proud moment quickly got complicated.

Should he listen to his family, or are they giving him bad advice?

Read on for the full story!

AITA for not buying a house for my sister to live in?

So I (24M) am now in the position where I can buy a house for the first time. I live in the UK and I am single, so I already understand that this is quite rare.

The way I did this is by earning a good wage from my job I’ve had for the past year, and I’ve been good at saving since I started at 16.

Anyways, I am in the position to buy a 3–4 bedroom house (looking at a few), plenty of room and kind of future-proof for if I get a wife and have kids in the future.

When he shared the news, he got pretty mixed reactions.

I still live with my parents, and over dinner I said that I’m looking to buy a house soon.

My dad was very happy and proud.

My mum was, however, very unenthusiastic about the idea.

Mom immediately started with the guilt tripping about his sister, who was in quite a different position financially.

She told me that the right thing to do would be to buy the house and rent it to my sister, as she needs it more.

For context, my sister (30F) has one child with her ex-husband and has recently had another child with her current boyfriend.

She is struggling to make ends meet and she is renting now—it is unsuitable in the current house.

He feels bad for his sister, but he isn’t convinced his mother’s suggestion is the right move.

While I am empathetic to my sister’s situation, it is not my responsibility to house her.

I even suggested that me moving out into my own house is better, as it frees up space in my parents’ house for my sister and her family if it came to that.

My sister has also made very questionable financial decisions over the years.

While I understand it’s hard, a good part of the hardship she is facing could be avoided. And I would like to preface that she is nowhere near being homeless.

AITA for not housing my sister?

Not every win needs to be shared.

What did Reddit think?

This commenter urges the young man to not listen to his family’s bad advice.

He should have never told his family about his financial success in the first place.

If his mother wants to help so bad, why doesn’t she just do it herself?

It’s a good thing to help your family, but he shouldn’t let it set him back.

He worked hard to earn this opportunity.

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.