[cheat-master30]

I know how you feel about the family and wanting a forum thing, I've had a similar situation where a cousin wanted a forum for an (often passing interest) twice, maybe even three times, and all those times it ended up with the forum completely dead and abandoned two days after opening, at best.

My best advice in this regard is simply to spend as little money as you can when starting forums for people as a favour (aka, use free forum software and the like), as truth be told, the vast majority of people just do not have the patience level required to run a forum. In your experiences, it also seems like you're working WAY too much to promote a site that may or may not succeed, and that to remember a lot of people often change interests rather regularly.

Still, I guess if nothing becomes of these sites, you could always either take over the management of them (think of it as a new hobby), or close them down and use the licenses for whatever future project (although I'm kinda personally surprised people actually invest money in licenses, promotion and top end hosting for even the sites for those who might lose interest that quickly, and what not).