Re: Do I have to pay rent? Landlord in Foreclosure

Re: Do I have to pay rent? Landlord in Foreclosure by Anonymous on January 22, 2012 @11:53

Have you been able to find out for sure who owns the house now? If it's the bank, then the guy you've been paying is your FORMER landlord and I'm surprised he's still communicating with you at all... unless it's so you keep sending him rent checks (which, of course, he should sending right back to you).

Since it looks like you'll have to move in the coming months (yeah, I know it'd be nice to know WHEN, but...), I'd just look for a new place to move to. Even if the landlord IS still the owner, it'd take him time to evict you anyway. While he is deciding whether or not to file, then filing, getting the hearing, etc., you may want to take your rent money to hire the mover.

As for whether or not it's worth it to your landlord to try & evict you, no one can say because no one knows how much logic he uses. Some landlords would say, no, it's not worth it. Others (like my former landlord) just think tenants owe them money NO MATTER WHAT - for them, there is only ONE factor in landlording, and that is them making maximum profit, no matter what the law says on anything; no one knows what those types will do (heck, THEY don't even know what they're doing most of the time!).

If you can figure out when you would be moving yourself (not being evicted), perhaps you can base your decision on that. Eviction takes time, and is also a headache (for both parties).

As an aside, I am not positive, but I don't expect you'll receive anything from the bank (or your landlord once the foreclosure has gone through). I don't expect most landlords in foreclosure help out the bank by providing them names of tenants. If the landlord has, in fact, already lost the house, then he's not pocketing your money for "no reason;" he's just plain stealing it. Perhaps you can look online at the public records and see just WHO owns the house you are to write next month's rent check to. If the bank owns it, then this landlord's only motive for having any contact with you is because he wants to cash checks he's not legally entitled to.

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