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Rich dad charged us $1500 after the fact, for moving expenses, moved to be closer to them. Wtf

My dad Owns a business.. makes 30 million a year... over the years he’s developed this mindset that we take advantage of him financially, it all started when he paid for college and it got expensive and I guess at the time we were ungrateful. Rightfully so, we’ve since apologized and it’s been 14 years... but as time has gone by he’s made it very clear he’s super resentful about this “everyone takes advantage of me thing” so for example when my husband and our family and I all go out to eat, he insists we all split it, which is fine. And now we offer every time and always split. Secondly, like they fly us out to Hawaii .. when we get there they expect us to pay $800 to rent a car for a week.. um hello!! We have kids in daycare like we don’t have that sort of money.. so we ride bikes and get judged for it the entire time we are there,. We’ve offered to not go to Hawaii but then we are ungrateful.....Those are 2 examples of a million.. well todays story is that we are moving to The same city be closer to them.. we’ve spent almost 9 grand with our housing situation to try and live in a house near their neighborhood, we are trying to put our children in a new daycare but it’s ghastly expensive and we are stretched.. so despite me having a job where I work from home, I’ve kept the little ones home for the week because we just don’t have $1600 extra dollars to put down for daycare. I’m killing myself trying to work and watch the kids at the same time..in a couple weeks hopefully we will have enough to make it work.. But don’t right now because of moving expenses.. to add to this, my dad offered to have his company workers help us move. We are delighted that they would be willing to help, he thinks it’ll be around $500-$600 so we budget for that. We tell him to bring 2 trucks it’s a lot of stuff and a long drive and it’s by the hour it would take 2 loads instead of 4 with 2 trucks vs1...Well he sends one truck.. and it takes 13 hours.. and his secretary tells us it’s a $1200 bill.. not to mention they broke our tile which we had to pay $280 to fix to our landlord.. almost $1500 cost for moving. Well rightfully so my husband is freaking out.. I ask my dad if we can split it in to payments into 2.. his response, not a care in the world “work it out with my secretary”.... the crappy part is I got a quote from a moving company for $600 beforehand.. we could have avoided all of this...My parents meanwhile are in Hawaii like not a care in the world to help us,..Meanwhile my in-laws are all like can we help with the baby, what can we do to make things easier. They’ve bought us a car, laptop, paid first months rent before and they don’t make more than maybe $80k... just so generous with time and money...and they themselves are limited in their resources but so giving. I’m in a place where I want to confront my parents but don’t want to sound entitled. They just seem to kick us when we are down and have no interest in being there for us unless it benefits them. Do I sound silly to have concerns about a $5-600 moving bill that turned into a $1500 one and my dad who has all the ability in the world to let us split the payment or even reduce it. has no interest in helping us sort it out or work it out, when we’ve moved there to be closer to them.
TexChik · F
Unless you are just trying to stay in the will , you should stay away from him . He is clueless about what it’s like to live under a budget . He cant forgive you for being ungrateful as a young adult , stop letting him Beat you over the head with it . He’s mean and controlling using his wealth to bully you . That’s horrible .
Brassm0nk3y · 36-40, F
Thank you this is true !@SW-User
Brassm0nk3y · 36-40, F
@SW-User @TexChik Good point, they say we are included in the will but at this point, that doesn’t make sense that any bit of money would be coming to us. He can’t be kind in life can’t imagine him leaving a legacy to turn a new leaf and be kind after death. We proceed forward like we aren’t in any sort of will.
TexChik · F
@Brassm0nk3y I’m so sorry that he is like that. Why put your family through his hatefulness ? You are much more tolerant than In
SW-User
I think you dont deserve that kind of treatment from your dad. But that's how a lot of rich folks are, very stingy with their money, scroogelike. If I was in your shoes, I dont think I would move closer to your parents. It will only continue to add drama to you and your husband's life. From now on put your husband and kids first! They are more important than your narcissistic father!
firefall · 61-69, M
If it wasn't your fathers company, would you be outraged at the jump in prices? of course. He wasn't doing you any favour by letting you use his staff for this, at all, he clearly just likes to feel he's done something. He really needs to have this drawn to his attention
Brassm0nk3y · 36-40, F
@firefall I think a moving company would have at least quoted us beforehand accurately, and would be insured to fix the tile floor they broke
firefall · 61-69, M
@Brassm0nk3y Exactly
Keepitsimple · 51-55, F
You need to discuss this with your father. It’s not what you say but how you say it. I suspect living closer to him may bring on more problems.
Brassm0nk3y · 36-40, F
Thank you, I think you are right here@Keepitsimple
SW-User
That's crazy. Your dad is mean. Sorry to say this but at first place you should not have moved which caused you all this trouble. Ignore him.
ThePerfectUsername · 70-79, M
I hate to be the one to break it to you pet but your dad's not a proper dad. He's an obnoxious prick - pretending to be a dad. 😟
SW-User
He's a very mean man, I don't know why you want to be closer to him, he sounds like the type who'll always be the same and you'll always be getting upset by him for these kind of reasons 😞
Success · 26-30, F
From my standpoint it seems that both of you are making his money a big issue. Maybe your earning more would level the field and erase the problem.

 
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