YUP. I am not a partner. But my mom is owner of 20%, and she is 71 years old. She has worked her tail off for the last year with two sponsors diligently. My older brothers saw $$$ signs and talked the 50% owner (a selfish abusive 35 year old I will call $cum and still living with...guess who...mom) into buying him out. $cum never mentioned it to her, until the exchange was made. My mom is physically sick over this. Even though $cum put up the money, this had become my mom's lively hood, her social interaction with friends and neighbors. Now my $$$ hungry brother will not even let her into the place....this is why I wanted to know about the rent. Anyways, after talking to her today, she is depressed and feeling completely defeated. I am angry and feeling very frustrated in how our mother was used and shoved aside. I am accused of putting my nose in where it does not belong, and now my mom is telling me to let it go. She has no energy to kick out the Scumbag. He drinks, smokes pot, calls her names, uses the f word constantly in front of my mom and grandmother. When he gets mad he slams doors, throws things. Mainly when he is drunk. She has guilt with him, because she left him when he was younger. Well, she left all us kids, and we got over it, and I still love her. He makes her feel like she owes him. Can I help in some way? I am beside myself with anger want to help her, I don't think she will do anything, she is afraid of her boys hating her. Can you believe that? Please help. Faith