They get to foreclose on a house, which while annoying, is likely a decent asset that they can fix up and sell off.

@Joshua Villafranco Your best course of action is to be persistent (but not annoying) and, hopefully, the aunt will come around.

@Joshua T. in most cases renting out part of a single family to someone else wouldn’t be allowed by town zoning regulations.There’s a limited exception for disabled and senior relatives of the owner, but renting part of a single family out to a stranger Is generally not allowed.It’s possible you could AirBNB a room occasionally but the demand for that in a rural area might be small and you’d want to check with the town building department ahead of time as some towns have regulations regarding that.If you were asking about legally converting a single family to a 2F, that would be an uphill battle and especially in a rural area I would not expect it to succeed.If you were asking about doing it anyway even though it would be an illegal unit, I can think of at least three good reasons not to do that.First, if your tenant every does anything to annoy a neighbor (very common, some would say inevitable), it’s very possible the neighbor will complain to the town.

I've even tried to update it in the past and it doesn't take, so that in itself is annoying.

Anything that would make it a bit more annoying for random people to come to the area.  

Luckily the amounts involved here were relatively small, and it was more of an annoyance than anything else, but the lesson learned was incredibly important.Several years ago I was living in London, and put some extra cash in a P2P account with Zopa (the UK equivalent of Lending Club).

There’s appears to be a instability In Their Thinking that results in erratic( usually bad) life choices .there is a self absorbed double mindedness about them that annoys me and its very concerning to consider they will be the future of our country .

It's the annoying crap, the petty work, the difficult professor, the not knowing what you don't know until you know, that actually teaches your subconscious to deal with whatever life throws at you - not necessarily the specific subject matter of an assignment that has got you annoyed, looking for an easy escape on a real estate forum.Good luck.

When we pushed him for details or challenged his claims he either got annoyed or side stepped the questions.  

Don’t leave any bedrooms without a closet, for example, or the guests who stay in that bedroom will be annoyed