Purchasing a home in this day and age has gotten ridiculous. It seems like in order for a real estate agent to actually accept your offer on a home, you must sell your first born child and and make at least half a million dollars, not to mention have proof of hundreds of thousands of dollars in liquid assets. As frustrating as the real estate market is, nobody is coming to save us from that pesky yearning for the American dream, baby! Get with the program; homeownership is only becoming more difficult.

Some folks are lucky enough to have parents who lay their own finances out on the line for their children, opting to be their cosigner on a home sale. Most of the time, this is a return-the-favor-free process, but some your old folks might be plotting to use your eagerness to become a homeowner against you, and that’s exactly what happens in the story below.

A man and his girlfriend, who are in their late 20s, have lived an hour apart for a while. They finally decide that they want to move in together, and the man wants to purchase a home because of issues with his girlfriend’s financial past. His mother is happy to cosign, but she ends up not cosigning at all. Instead, she puts her name on the home the couple will be paying for, and then demands that the girlfriend gets rid of her cats or she’s not welcome there. We skipped a few plot points, apparently. Scroll to read.