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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Can't remember everything in the entire thread about this stuff... Is that man someone you call "Uncle" (in my family it's normal for kids to just call distantly related family members 'aunt' and 'uncle'), or is he your father's or mother's brother, so a 'real' uncle?
If so, and he's trying to sell a house from under your father/mother, which they use to run a business and provide for the family, it's hard for me to understand that a brother would try to do something like that. In my eyes, that's genuinely evil (and greedy).
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He is my father's brother.
What it boils down to is that he thinks his parents should have made sure he had better opportunities in life and they should have been rich. He finds my grandfather an oaf and my grandmother should have done more cultural things with him. Despite owning the house and business my family wasn't rich. My great grandfather bought the building 100 years ago, he and his family lived downstairs behind the store, so he must have rented out the upstairs. My grandparents lived upstairs but during most of my father's youth several rooms were rented out to two elderly sisters.
My uncle also thinks my grandparents favoured my father over him. It's probable; from a young age my father wanted to take over the store and be an electrician. He helped out in the store from a young age. My uncle always thought the store was beneath him. Occasionally he showed an interest; I can remember he wanted to be a partner in the store (after my father paid of all the debts) and he had the idea to sell maintenance contracts to the elderly and then if only do the most basic of things. Schemes, fraudulent schemes. Something both my father and grand father resisted.
My father is also a stupid oaf. Except whenever my uncle moved and needed my father's help with DIY things and the moving. Then he would be nice for a while, until all the work was done.
After my grandfather's will was read my father knew there would be a battle with my uncle about the house. We hadn't expected it to start before my grandmother's death. Because of that my father only did the bear minimum of upkeep to the house. Since the battle started four years ago even less has done. So hopefully next year we can finally replace the sewer and get the front of the house painted.