This is in German as I am in Germany. I saw the online add of someone urgently looking for a place to stay. A couple with a 10 year old boy who somehow ended up living in a tent next to the river. They were looking for something immediately. The add said that the man had a full-time job, there was some income from the woman as well. They would be willing and able to pay for a place to stay. They needed it immediately. I happen to have a house with a large garden that's currently empty. The last tenents have just moved out and the house is still fully furnished including several beds, tv, dishes, all common machines such as dishwasher, washing machine, fridge, etc. The tenents had been refugees who had very little of their own so I left everything when I moved out. So the house is in a state that someone could crash there and have everything - even including internet as I have missed to cancel that. The house happens to be 15 min by car from the man's work. Generally it's well connected to the surrounding towns, the train station, etc. I don't need tenents at the moment. I want to renovate the place before taking in tenents again. But obviously someone could stay there. So I reached out to them. I felt the conversation was not really friendly from her side. I offered her the place basicly for what it would cost for a long term tenent just broken down to a daily rate - which would have been 30€/day. That's 10€/day/person including everything like water, electricity, internet, using everything... I said we could talk about them moving in the next day. Her response was that she would like to pay even less. She suggested 20€/day. Then she asked if they can move in tomorrow. If they can't move in today right away? My response was that they might be able to move in the next day but that I wanted to meet them first. That I wanted to get an idea who I am giving my house to. Her response was: "So that means we would have to stay here another night. Then when my partner gets off work tomorrow, he would have to pick us (she and her child) up by the river and go meet you (= me). And then we still wouldn't know for certain that we have a place to stay." I ended that interaction there. I wrote her a response that as she was apparently unhappy with what I was offering, the offer was of the table. That letting someone into that house came with various risks for me (I mean, they could have trashed the place or whatever). I told her best of luck with solving their current situation and that there is a government office that homeless people could turn to. Then I blocked her. I was honestly upset afterwards and felt really stupid that I even reached out to offer help.   submitted by   /u/Pussa_Nil [link]   [comments]