Moving to a new home is a huge undertaking, so if you can help your friends out while they are going through it, that is very nice.

What would you do if your friends left their boat on your property and said they would pick it up in a few days, but months later still haven’t gotten it?

That is what this couple is dealing with, so they finally told their friends that they were going to get rid of it and now they are upset.

Here are all of the details.

AITA for telling my neighbor they need to get their boat out of our yard or it’s getting set out by the road?

My husband (35M) and I (30F) have lived next door to a family since 2016.

I had babysat their son since he was 5 months old and he is now 3.

Sounds like great neighbors.

Whenever they needed a date night or had something going on, which was about every other weekend, I was there.

They had another baby a year ago so I also watched him.

They would invite us over a lot and have dinner, share some of their edibles/smoke, drinks and just hang out and talk.

We became pretty close after living next to each other for years.

We’d have each other’s backs and look out for another if any sketchy things took place on the neighborhood.

Well, about 4 months ago they moved 5 minutes down the road.

That was nice.

While they were in the moving process, I offered to help them out by asking if they’d want me to watch their boys so they can move things.

They asked if they could leave their boat in our yard just for a few days until they settled in their house and would come get.

We were like oh yeah of course.

So a week went by, a month, 2 months and we didn’t say anything at all about the boat still being there and also hadn’t heard anything about the plan for them to pick up?

Oh good, they will come get it.

So we messaged, hey are you planning on getting the boat?

He replies oh yeah we’ll get this weekend.

No message saying he will come get and didn’t hear anything for another week.

Asked again pretty irritated, and he comes to pick it up.

This shouldn’t take long to fix.

Well the boat needs a new tire, so now he’s gotta leave and buy a new tire to haul it home.

It’s been a week almost 2 weeks and he hasn’t even communicated about coming to get the boat.

We are not only so over having this boat here in our yard, but also feel disrespected as we let them borrow our space/ our property for a while now.

I think they have been more than patient.

So my husband told them if they weren’t coming to pick up, he was going to set out by the road for someone to pick up.

AITA?

It would be terrible to lose friends over this, but I think it needs to be made clear that the boat has to go.

Let’s see if anyone in the comments had any advice.

This person says they were more than generous.

Yeah, it has to go.

Set a firm deadline.

They really are taking advantage.

You have to be firm with some people.

This boat has overstayed its welcome.

Time to shove off.

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.