This thread is probably going to massively out me, but I don't care. And I'm genuinely too fed up to have any clue as to whether or not IABU. But here goes.
DH and I moved last year with his job. We get subsidised accommodation with his work, and as such, we decided to hold onto our old house where we moved from until he passed probation period, which he's now done. House is still costing us every month as has mortgage (repayment), so we now want to sell it.
In mean time, we let DSis and BIL who are recently returned to UK stay there short term, rent free, whilst they look for jobs (something they're taking their sweet time about as they have a fat chunk of back up savings and no motivation). Their crap is in our house, and when I say crap, I mean all the contents of their old house which they've taken out of storage but not unpacked (as they don't know how long they're going to be at ours). Boxes I don't mind, but they haven't built their bed or sofa, and are sleeping on a mattress on the floor of one of the bedrooms, and sitting on sofa cushions and a bean bag for living room.
I want to make appointments with estate agents when I'm down there next weekend (old house in different county and only down there every now and again), so have asked them to build bed base and sofa so that when they come to take photos to market our property, it doesn't look like we have frikkin' squatters.
Just had long email. Sofa might break if they keep building and rebuilding. And anyway, they do'nt know where the screws are for it, and finding them will necessitate searching through the boxes. And can't they just move stuff around so that the agent can take photos of empty rooms. And can I decide quite quickly on a different course of action as they've got plans this weekend, and then she's away for a week doing a work trial next week.
AIBU to want her just to suck it up and build the bloody furniture so that our house doesn't look like some kind of episode of "How Clean is your House" on the website when we're trying to sell the bloody thing?
And WIBU to remind her that just because she's away next week, it doesn't mean that her DH's husband's hands will suddenly stop working so he can't take 2 hours to put some flat pack back together?
At the moment, I just want to tell her that the house it either getting photos taken with all her furniture beautifully presented, or it's getting photos done EMPTY!!