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Letting family stay for a few months seems simple enough, right? WRONG.

One woman agreed to let her gamer brother crash at her place while he apartment hunted, on one clear condition: her spare room stays untouched as her work-from-home office.

He said he understood. But then he showed up with three monitors and a full desk setup, acting as though the agreement had never happened.

So when she held her ground instead of compromising, she faced accusations from her family for being selfish, all for standing up for her own space.

Read on to find out what Redditors thought of the whole debacle.

AITA for telling my brother he could not move his gaming setup into the spare room at my place

My brother recently asked if he could stay with me for a couple of months while he looked for a new apartment.

I said yes, but I told him the spare room stays empty because I use it as a quiet workspace when I work from home.

It didn’t take long for the brother to trample all over these boundaries.

He said he understood at first, then showed up with three monitors and a big desk, asking where to plug everything in.

I reminded him of what we agreed on, and he got annoyed, saying he needed the space more than I did and that family should help each other out without conditions.

But she didn’t budge, which got the family fired up.

I stuck to the boundary and told him he could keep his stuff in storage or find another place to stay.

Now my mom is texting me saying I am being selfish and that he is stressed enough already.

I get that moving is tough, but I also do not want my home turned into a gaming den while I try to keep a job.

He thinks I should have just given him the room and figured something else out for myself later.

Why are the families in these types of stories always so quick to blindly endorse such unfettered entitlement?

Redditors chime in.

It’s time to stand her ground.

This user picks up on some blatant favoritism.

Her brother is always welcome to find somewhere else.

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What about her and her needs?

Agreeing to let someone stay temporarily isn’t the same as agreeing to hand over your entire home office in the process. That distinction shouldn’t need repeating, but apparently for this family it did.

Showing up with monitors and a desk after already agreeing to the terms is hardly just a misunderstanding. Her brother was basically just testing how far he could push the boundary.

If her brother needs more space, he needs to find somewhere else to crash.