legal issues
By joannedorcas
@joannedorcas (1)
Canada
April 10, 2007 10:35pm CST
I live in alberta(near the Edmonton area, and I really need some advice desperately. We are renting to own a house, there is a contract done up and witnesses by a gentlement that owns a huge condo developement, we pay the land taxes every year and the fire insurance on the house, not tenant insurance, and have renovated some, and when we went to pay the rent this month the landlord was saying to me he'd love to sell the house. So now we are all freaked out if they will try to sell the house out from under us, as we have been here over two years now. Can they do this? And if they do, do we get the tax money back and house fire insurance money and the renovations money and what we put towards the house already? We just don't know what to do now and we don't want to put more money into the house if they are going to try to sell it from under our feet.
PLEASE HELP, DAZED AND CONFUSED!!!
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3 responses
@rina308 (83)
• Philippines
8 Dec 09
It's better if you seek legal advice on this matter. Dazed and confused, checkout bidsfromlawyers.com, it's a website that allows you to post your case up online for lawyers to review and bid on.
@arcadian (930)
• United States
16 Apr 07
You said there is a contract which has been witnessed- so the legality of it is established-right? So have a lawyer explain to your landlord/seller what he can and cannot do.Does Canada provide some form of legal aid? this would be the kind of situation legal aide ( a free or sliding scale service) provides in the States, so I hope you have something similar to enable you to get representation without having to go into debt to protect yourself. Good luck.
@rabi9634 (419)
• United States
11 Apr 07
I would imagine that this is something you don't want to just take random internet advice on. I'm going to make the assumption that the land taxes and other expenses you've incurred from renting probably didn't come with a cheap price tag. You should definitely get in touch with a lawyer to find out where you stand on your situation.
The lack of a contract is always a bad sign. Contracts do a lot to clear up problems when the parties decide to deviate from the initial agreement. Without a contract, there is a lot of finger pointing and "I said"/"they said".
Best of luck getting everything sorted out!
