Small rant of concern for something that just makes me antsy.
My mom and stepdad are supposed to be renting our house that we own in CT. They are working on moving in currently, and we asked them to put their bank info in on the mortgage site because we don’t want to deal with the whole reminding them to pay us every month thing… we told them to log in and enter their info by the 30th. They didn’t.
The mortgage usually comes out of Frank’s account between the first and fifth, and this month, it came out on the first. We can’t afford the mortgage AND having to pay for rent here in WA. If you’re unfamiliar, military housing takes 100% of your housing allowance… which means that the mortgage payment came out of Frank’s regular paycheck. We don’t see any of his paychecks if this continues, yet we still have other bills (cars, utilities, etc), gas, groceries, etc. that we have to pay for. She said she’d send us the money, but every time I bring it up, she brushes it off and is all “yeah, yeah, we will! I’ll Venmo it to you or something…” 🫠
My mom has a history of not paying rent and being evicted from places. I don’t know why I thought it would be different now that she has a husband who IS financially stable and responsible. So yeah, maybe I shouldn’t have trusted this, but also, I figured her husband would be on top of it all. And I know, they’re in the process of getting ready to sell the house they live in, which makes it hard, but they told us they’d be doing that by the end of November… and they haven’t even packed their house up yet.
I’m just stressed. We have things we have to pay for, we have a baby on the way… we can’t afford to be paying for two houses at the same time. Maybe we should have just gone the property management route and rented to strangers and risked everything that comes with that. 🙃
