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Originally Posted by b.batista
Give them money and no problem.They your friends and you pay for renting a home and then they get jobs. Every thing is no problem.
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That sounds like a workable short term solution, b.batista, and I'm sure Ladybird will be more than willing to cover her friends rent for a few months whilst they find other employment.
It should be noted that post 8 was
not an attempt to prevent these people finding a home. It was an attempt to extract lessons from this situation which might be of help to others.
Have to say I feel a post simply entitled 'Looking for house sitters job' might have had more success. The minute the 'unfortunate circumstances' are posted it does, or
should lead people to question the judgements made in this situation. This is not in any way commenting on whether the sitters are nice people or not - in a sense that is irrelevant. We have now been told they are long term residents. This means that they know about the need to have emergency funds, they know as Robert has suggested, how Dominicans would handle this situation and more importantly they will have established over the years, decent contacts on whom they can now call. They probably have lawyers who are friends who might work on their behalf for a minimal retainer.
The other lesson which can be extracted from this is that being 'nice' as in allowing one's rights to be walked over, does not always indicate sound judgement. There are times when it does and others when it doesn't. It does, however, say something about how assertive these sitters might or might not be prepared to be & that has ramifications for the job of looking after someone else's property and maybe 'defending' it when faced with legal type issues. As long term residents the sitters would know that Dominican law favours squatters. They could thus stay put and allow themselves to be evicted..............eventually. By which time they should have other work.
Other potential house sitters can learn a lot from this situation and new posters can see why it is necessary to sometimes question the scenario as originally presented.
