The property next door to mine (owned by my brother’s very wealthy widow) is to be demolished and the site developed which means that my family are faced with a horrible summer of living on a building site, but you can’t made an omelette without breaking eggs so it is what it is.
The house that is up for demolition was my parent’s home, so my family home and therefore has massive emotional significance but we are the poor relations and money is power.
Today my trust fund nephew posted an invitation on Facebook to a house wrecking weekend party giving our shared post code as the address (with his mother’s full permission). By his own admission, he intends for his mates and himself to be ‘wasted’ whilst the house which is just yards from my own is destroyed by him and his mates.
Despite making it an invitation event, I can see how he has any control over who will get to hear about this party or how far they extend the ‘wrecking fun’. He has invited his guests to bring tools and alcohol ‘lets spend the whole weekend getting the house and ourselves trashed’.
We had booked a holiday to Portugal for that week and now feel that we will have to cancel and forfeit the money because to leave our home unoccupied would be a big risk as we have a shared access and the fences are down.
We have appealed to my sister in law and my nephew to cancel this event, although it may be too late because social media moves like wildfire but they see no harm. Every penny we own is invested in our home which we work hard to make nice.
My nephew is not a kid, he is in his late twenties although he never had a real job or have any concept of responsibility, money has made the whole family not trouble themselves with care or concern for others.
What do people think we should do I feel ill with worry about this?