I'm a bit confused. First time I've posted in AIBU but just want others opinions.
Have a good-ish neighbour, she got her house super cheap 3 years ago and admits its a money pit that she didn't foresee. She still has loads to do, but has openly told me she has run out of money to do it. Our houses are joined together, with one guttering down pipe, which is on her property. We had our guttering replaced about 4 years ago and we have no issues with it at all. She needed hers doing, but she got a total bodger to do it cheap, and now water is pouring out of her end of the gutter (I.e. the end furthest away from our house). She got a quote for someone to do it properly, and that would involve lowering the downpipe slightly, and raising her end of the guttering. No work needed to ours at all.
She's asked me this morning if we will split the costs with her, as the downpipe although on her side, is the only one we share between us and she basically can't afford to do the job alone and 'can't cope' with the water pouring down her wall. When I 'hmmm-ed' a bit in the conversation, she said 'my downpipe is having to cope with water from both houses, which is why there is a problem' - this isnt true at all. I spoke to the man when he was there giving her the quote, and he confirmed it was down to the appalling way her work had been done in the first place.
I feel for her, and I get on with her fine, but I know what my DH will say - there is no problem on our side, and if there was and we needed to do work on the downpipe to get it sorted, we wouldn't be asking her to split the costs as it would be 'our problem'. I also know he is going away today with work and it'll fall down to me to explain this to her, and am dreading this. Money is tight for her, but it's tight for us too, and I do essentially feel like we are paying for something that is nothing to do with us.
Is that wrong?
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alabasterangel · 30/08/2012 10:34
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