Comment by SoftTalker
6 days ago
If you had a lease the new owner was obliged to honor it, should not have been able to evict you at least until the end of the lease term.
6 days ago
If you had a lease the new owner was obliged to honor it, should not have been able to evict you at least until the end of the lease term.
There's a provision for personal use that stipulates they can't rerent the unit for a year. It wasn't illegal, but it was an asshole move. They also tried getting us for more than out full deposit, to which we declined and they relented. Basically he's just a scumbag.
I guess I don't blame someone for wanting full use of the house they bought. But if they lead you to believe they wanted you to stay and then suddenly reversed on that, yeah kind of a dick move.
I probably would have pressed on negotiating a bigger buyout, but that's easy to say not knowing your situation and what other options for housing you had at the time.
Ya I explored my options, but thankfully there are relatively decent tenant protections and we had to have at least 3 months notice, as well as fortunately there being a downtown in rental prices and decreased competition for rentals, so we got a little lucky and found a bigger place quickly.
I don't believe he actually used the space, we walked by nearly every day for months, and now that it's been a year, we're periodically checking to see if there's new tenants in there.