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Originally Posted by hankster
My mother was always urging me to buy a place, like a duplex, and "get the renters to pay the mortgage". I had a hard enough time just keeping a job, dealing with the people there, that that would have been a nightmare for me. I think I heard or read somewhere recently - maybe it was a Judge Judy episode! - that mom's idea was not good for a person with people and or mental problems like me. It may be more than your daughter can handle, too, having those roommates. Maybe you can help her choose her next ones, or help her some other way. Because if you guys couldn't deal with them for one afternoon, how is she doing? I don't mean to discount what happened.
My dad taught me, and his mother taught him, that even if somebody offers you a drink, you always say no thanks! I would NEVER open my brother's refrigerator. I usually bring my own food to my mother's, but I might take one of a multiple - a slice of cheese or bread, a piece of fruit or candy, some flavored coffee mix. They never come to my place, they never eat what I cook.
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We just left my daughter's house, where we had a frank talk. She won't bring her roomies over anymore. She, and we do mean SHE, is invited over for supper tomorrow night.
My daughter, as a former foster child, feels strongly that it is her calling in life to help people who have outgrown foster care, but aren't quite ready to stand on their own two feet yet, adjust to life in the grown up, independent world. I'm sure that's a noble calling, but I do believe she should get herself established first.