The Irritating In-laws Saga Continues . . .

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My husband and I are trying to build our house. We had hoped to finish the main room before our second baby arrives in a few weeks, but that is impossible due to my inlaws who live on the same piece of property. We finally found a builder who actually showed up and he put up a chunk of the wall, then my father-in-law hired him to put in a new kitchen floor in his house. Since we were doing a barter (a computer for the wall) and my FIL was paying cash, the builder went to do the floor. Then he did cupboards and installed a sink. And then they decided to build another room onto their house and put a tile floor in and rebuild the roof! All this started about 2 months ago. My house is still in bits and pieces and we are getting very frustrated. Now the builder has agreed to come this afternoon and work on the wall, but we have no materials. Why? Because my FIL took them all! He "borrowed" cement block from us to put up a temporary shed and when my husband asked for them back, he got extremely angry! But he is now using them in his wall. He also told the builder to take our wood planks for framing and they were cut up to use for the cupboards, and are now useless for building walls!On top of all this, our gravel, sand and concrete mix has all vanished into their wall and although my husband has repeatedly asked his father to either replace it or pay him back, nothing has appeared. Since it is his family, my husband is annoyed, but not doing much about it because he doesn´t want to make them angry. There is no way we will have our room done by the time this baby arrives and I am SO frustrated! Especially since we don´t have a lot of money to be buying materials with . . . particularly materials that we already built!SOrry, I just had to rant and have no one here to talk to.