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Imagine having trouble paying your rent, and your landlord gives you an option of doing something easy but illegal in order to get a cut in your rent check. While your part is highly questionable, you have no idea what he’s actually up to, and it can’t be anything good.

Would you go along with it or refuse?

In this story, one parent is in this situation, and what makes it an even bigger problem is that it involves her daughter’s passport.

Honestly, after this mess, if I were the daughter, I’d be hesitant to come home to visit ever again.

Keep reading for all the details.

AITA for giving my daughter’s passport to my landlord.

I live in 3rd world country in what is considered illegal accommodation.

My landlord who built the houses here charges me a monthly rent but keeps coming up with reasons to demand extra money like needing it to pay the city so they don’t destroy everything even though he is well connected to city bureaucrats.

Her daughter is doing well for herself.

My daughter left the country about one decade ago and went to England and recently came visiting.

She now works in London and make sixty thousand pounds a year and I know she has about 8 thousand pound saved.

I asked her for some money to help as my landlord recently asked more money and I have to pay for a training course for my son and my sons wedding.

With the landlord’s new request I will have little left.

The landlord had a weird request.

She said she cannot help despite having so much and claims she needs money for a new rent deposit when she moves and says she has loans.

Yet I know she travels a lot and posts pictures but she claims it is for work.

I tried to plead with landlord to no avail but he said if I give him my daughter’s England passport and make sure it is not reported lost before 2 weeks he would not ask the money and give me 5 months off rent.

This agreement would help me a lot so I agreed and secretly gave it to him.

Her daughter is pretty upset.

I didn’t tell my daughter until 1 week when my landlord said is ok and said to say it is lost and not stolen.

My daughter got very upset with me and is barely speaking to me but she has declared it lost and will get another one and just had to move her flight a little bit.

I know it is technically not right and landlord is into many wrong businesses but I don’t feel like I was not justifies as she would not help me and I found a way where there is no negative consequences to her besides returning a few days late.

Yikes! I think OP needs to find somewhere else to live and get away from this sketchy landlord.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted.

This person thinks OP has to know what she did was wrong.

Another person guesses at what the landlord did with the passport.

This really seems like an awful parenting decision.

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Everyone agrees that this parent really messed up.

That landlord is awful, but OP is almost just as bad for going along with it. I think she needs to tell her daughter what she did. This could end really badly for her.

What an awful thing for a parent to do!