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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/LunchAlarming9965 on 2023-09-01 14:14:27.

I lived in an apartment for rent whose owner was the father of a friend of mine who died and this friend became the owner.

He and I are close (almost 10 years) and we basically have the same circle of friends.

We never had problems with payment, readjustments and in those 6 years that I lived there I think I was a good tenant.

Well, recently my wife who was pregnant had an emergency c-section and we had our baby girl at just 7 months pregnant. The surgery was extremely complicated and had several complications. My wife was hospitalized for 15 days and our girl is still in the ICU Neo.

5 days before the c-section happened, my friend called me and we talked. He said he wanted to renovate the house and sell it, so he asked us to vacate and gave us 30 days notice (yeah, super short but totally legal). It even sent an extra-judicial notice of eviction.

All these unforeseen events happened and I really forgot about it, I only remembered almost 10 days later and I wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk.

I said that I was almost always at the hospital with my daughter or my wife and I just wouldn’t make it in time or have the peace to look for houses, move and at the same time deal with my personal life. Anyway, I asked if he could extend that time to another month so we could do it calmly.

To my surprise and out of the blue, he said “I’m sorry, but I won’t increase the time. You’re my friend, but business is business and you have 15 days to move”.

Me: “Oh, I really just didn’t expect this insensitivity and cruelty from you”.

I had to ask my group of friends for help (my parents and ILs live in another country) and we managed to find a house and move in with 3 days before the time.

I didn’t need to say much about the reasons why bc most of them knew that he had asked me to move but everyone was in shock to hear that I had asked but he still wanted to go ahead. Almost everyone cut contact with him.

He recently called me saying that I basically made him the monster of the situation, when he’s just minding his business and that I washed the dirty shit with our friends. It basically told me to grow up and wake up to the reality that business is business.

reddit, AITA?