I often read the stories that people post on this channel and came to the conclusion that my story will also seem interesting.
In 2015, my husband inherited a summer house from his aunt. Also, along with the house, he inherited 15 acres of land. The house was in bad condition, and the dacha was all overgrown with grass and weeds.
After we had drawn up all the documents concerning the inheritance of the house, we decided to sell it. However, it did not work, in a whole year we were called only a couple of times and no one even came to look at the cottage, because it is located in an inconvenient place. Even though we set a very low price, the offer still did not interest anyone.
At first we came to this house twice a year, and starting in 2017, and then stopped going at all, since the house is far from the city, we did not see the point in these trips. And this year my spouse and I had a vacation in early April. It was too early to do dacha work at that time, and it was too early to go on vacation. We decided to go on an excursion, and on the way we stopped at the same cottage.
When we arrived in the village, my husband and I were extremely surprised. It was obvious that someone had put the gate evenly, the house was more well maintained. There was laundry hanging in the yard, and other signs of human habitation were observed.
We approached the front door and found that the house was locked from the inside. My husband knocked on the door and a tall, broad-shouldered man opened it for us and immediately slammed the door in our faces. After that he put on his shoes and half a minute later came out to us again.
The man turned out to be a distant relative of my husband’s aunt. He began to tell him some facts from his biography, in which much coincided and confirmed their kinship. It was like some kind of melodrama, but I was not interested, I was interested only in one question: on what grounds is he here?
As we were talking, some men (locals) came onto the property and asked, “Neighbor, are you okay, or do we see some non-locals coming in?” I’ve seen clashes between villagers more than once, so I can imagine what this could turn into. It was obvious that the villagers were angry with us. But we knew we had the truth on our side and my husband said: “Men, this is actually my house by right. Let me talk quietly.
It became known that the man had been living in our house since 2018. Prior to that, he lived with his family in town, in a local dormitory. However, one day he lost his job and housing, he and his family were left on the street. Then the man decided to go to his aunt, but it turned out that she had already died. What to do? He had a small child in his arms and nowhere to go. The locals advised him to stay at our house. They said no one lives there anyway, or even comes, so there shouldn’t be any problems. If anything goes wrong, the locals will help.
The man and his family lived happily in the house, he did the utilities, the man is hardworking, his hands grow out of the right place. He and his wife work at a local factory, planted vegetables in the garden. My husband and I thought that there was nothing wrong with it, because we do not need this house anyway, we wanted to sell it. He is a normal person who just got into a difficult life situation. So we let the man and his family live in the house for as long as they needed.
The man was happy and said he was going to build a bathhouse near the house. As soon as the steam room is set up, he would immediately invite my husband and me to stay. We were even happy that we helped the man and did a good thing. Friends, thank you for your attention.
