Ya know, when do these children grow up?

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Christmas is supposed to be about family. Part 1 So the roomie has two nephews and three nieces, only one of whom seems to care about her. However, here we were on Christmas Eve and there wasn't even a Christmas CARD from this nephew. I was beginning to suspect that it was going to be another year of "me" from him and his family. Last year she did get a call from them, but there were almost no photos of the kids opening presents. She was walking around crying about it. I wrote the niece-in-law, politely, to ask if they could take some pictures to share with her and I get a full scale brat answer back about how "this was their first Christmas with just their family and she wasn't going to spend it behind a camera and miss out on participating." I came back with at least taking snaps of them opening their big presents from her. And that she wasn't expecting a gift, but how much does a card cost? Silence. Then the nephew asks to be my friend and comes back at me all hot and hostile and threatening me. Threatening to send the gifts back, and how dare to even approach them about this at this time of the year. EXCUSE ME! I wrote back that I care for her, and that if he cared for her he'd act like it, otherwise he was acting like a spoiled brat and like his brother and sister. I reminded him that he's NOT related to me, she is. And that threatening me wasn't going to work because I didn't care if he threatened me. Honestly, he can hate my guts, but that's not going to change the fact that she lives here. Finally, I pointed out that if he loved his aunt like he claims he does, well, maybe he should act like it. I then unfriended him. After I was sure he had seen what I had written. Gee... somehow the niece-in-law filmed most of the present openings and especially the "big" gifts. And then they called and talked for about an hour, with the kids thanking her for the gifts. Part 2 Last year - that's 2015 if you have forgotten - my brother and his wife bought a house to retire in. They knew that they weren't going to move up there before the end of this year, so they wanted to rent it out. That was when they made their first mistake, they rented it to a couple of my niece's co-workers/employees. She's a General Manager of a fancy restaurant in that town just north of Austin. These young men haven't been the most, shall we say, reliable, about letting them know about problems, until they are an emergency, and have also been not the most reliable about getting the rent in on time. Still, they had thought they would be wanting to move into the house about now at the time, so they just did their best, knowing the lease was up at the end of this month. However, my brother, who is a CPA, wasn't able to sell his firm so he's going to work another tax season, this means they aren't going to be moving. Then they learned one of the young men had quit his job and moved out. On Friday, on their way to see her son in the Dallas area, they stopped to check on the house, and see what the other young man was going to do. They get there and his dog is desperate to get out, obviously nobody had been home over night. They put the dog out, kind of checked the place and then hit the road. Meanwhile, they called my niece and asked what was going on. Turned out he had tried to commit suicide the night before and was in the hospital and his family was with him. They asked what about the dog, that the mother had better be planning on taking care of it. Now, with the other young man moving out, basically, the lease had been broken, since it was originally with the two fellows, he was in the hospital for who knows how long. Apparently the young man still in the house had hoped he could move his mom in, well, she doesn't have a job, so how were they planning to pay the rent? My brother and his wife said that they'd let them have until the 15th of January to move out, since they could've expected them to be out at the end of the lease, December 31st, there's no 30 day requirement here. So, this morning, the niece called and said she and her husband were sick and weren't going to be able to make it. Hummm.... were they really sick, or was the niece punishing her dad because of the whole deal with the house? I'd go with the latter because she's always been a spoiled brat. She's always put her friends above her father and, often her mother as well. So, the first story is about a 29 and a half year old and the second story is about a gal getting ready to turn 31 right after the first of the year. Is it too much to expect them to act like adults?