Some people out there will tell you without hesitation that it’s a bad idea to hire family members to do any kind of job.

And things can get even dicier when it comes to contracting work.

In today’s story, a man is pretty peeved about the job his brother-in-law did fixing up his house and now he wants to cancel a family vacation.

Read on and see what you think about this.

AITA for punishing our nieces and nephews over the damage my BIL did to our house?

“I have a home office and decided to have some light renovations done. I looked into hiring a professional contractor but my wife wanted me to hire her brother.

I was hesitant.

Yikes…

First, he’s a handy man and not a contractor. Second, he doesn’t have insurance or even many of the tools required to do this job.

All of the contractors I spoke to are insured and he had to borrow my tools.

Third, I had to pay him money up front to cover the cost of materials while the contractors all have accounts with suppliers so they didn’t require any upfront money.

This didn’t go well.

My wife talked me into it because he needs the money and has a family. We decided to take a vacation while he was going to do the work and came back to a mess.

The carpet was soaked and moldy. Nothing was done. Materials were everywhere and it smelled like a swamp in our house.

Apparently when he drilled into the wall, he didn’t locate the water line and hit it. He only noticed the leaking when he came back from lunch and the carpet was soaked.

He tried to find the shut off but couldn’t so he tore into the wall to try and stop the leaking which made it worse on top of which he couldn’t stop it there either. He panicked and called a coworker who came over hours later and found the shut off.

This guy really blew it.

Instead of calling us immediately, he left the house as it was and I guess it was out of sight, out of mind. The repair cost ended up being triple the original cost.

Since his family is living in Section 8 housing and on other government assistance, we decided last year to start saving to take them and her parents on a beach vacation this year in December as their Christmas gift.

We told them about it a couple of months ago so everyone could get their calendar in order.

He has a new plan now.

I told me wife we should cancel the trip and apply that money to the cost of the repairs.

This is has caused an argument between us.

My wife said it’s not fair to punish her nieces, nephews, and parents since they’ve been excited about the trip and they could never afford to go on their own.

I argued we can’t afford to eat the cost without it affecting our budget. She loves her nieces and nephews and keeps on saying I’m unfairly punishing them.

We’re supposed to go to her parents’ for dinner tonight and she forbade me to cancel the trip or even bring up the subject. I don’t think I can look at her stupid brother without calling him stupid.”

Check out what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person said he’s NTA.

Another individual has an idea.

This Reddit user weighed in.

Another person spoke up.

And this reader also said he’s NTA.

He’s seen just about enough of his brother-in-law for a while…

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