My sister is having some trouble with a former housemate.
After Sharon's husband died, Terri moved in to help with the bills. About a year later, Sharon moved out to live in another state. Terri made the house payment, lot rent and utilities as well as some repairs.
After four years and now that the mobile home is paid off, Sharon wants to sell it out from under my sister.
They never made a formal agreement or had a written contract, it was just friends helping friends. I don't think Sharon's name is on the mobile home deed and she never made any payments on the mortgage.
While Terri was at work, Sharon taped "For Sale" signs on the house which Terri took down.
What are Terri's options?
I know this is more a question for a lawyer but I'm hoping someone has some ideas on where she should start.
2007-09-12 02:04:09 · 13 answers · asked by stormchild03 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Your sister has no rights to the house unless her name is on the deed as part owner.
She can offer to buy it from Sharon and possibly at a better price if she negotiates in a friendly manner even though she is rightly pissed off.
2007-09-12 02:10:56 · answer #1 · answered by Lucy 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like Terri is your sister and Sharon is her friend - is that correct?
Terri has no options. There is no formal agreement or written contract. The payments that Terri made could be construed solely as rent (did she think she was going to live there for free?) If she testifies to those facts, then she's out of luck.
Whose name is on the mobile home deed? Why wouldn't Sharon have made any mortgage payments (she lived in it before Terri moved in)?
Terri better start looking for a place to live.
2007-09-12 02:15:42 · answer #2 · answered by Princess Leia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sharon is not selling this out from under Terri, as you say.
This is Sharons property, she has every right to sell it.
Terri paid rent, just like any other renter. The rent paid off the mortgage. Paying rent does not include any sort of ownership rights.
No lawyer will be able to help Terri steal Sharons property. Rights of ownership are basic American rights. Sharon did not loose those by renting her property and providing low cost housing to someone else.
If Terri wants the place she should buy it from Sharon.
2007-09-12 02:46:00 · answer #3 · answered by Landlord 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Terri's options are: she could by the home from her friend. (just between you and me, it won't sell quickly). She could move within the park to another mobile home leaving the friend to pay whatever lot rent and expenses there are on her own.
She really doesn't have any recourse here legally because they had no formal written agreement. While I know that doesn't seem fair, at leasts the friend was there to help her when she needed it most. Now it's time Terri's provide for herself.
2007-09-12 02:20:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
She can't stop her from selling if it is Sharon's house.
Even though it does make Sharon look like an evil witch for not mentioning anything about wanting to sell to her "friend" before posting signs on the property, I guess your sister's options are to:
1. move out.
2. Offer to buy the house from Sharon.
2007-09-12 02:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by sugar sweet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is exactly why you don't mix business with friendships. Your sister has no rights whatsoever unless she is on the deed. You say that you don't think that Sharon's name is on the deed...well who is? If it is Sharon's mobile home and her name is on the deed, she can do as she pleases. I suggest that your sister either offer to buy it from Sharon or move. There is nothing else that can be done.
2007-09-12 02:16:02 · answer #6 · answered by KitKat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After reviewing your different questions approximately this difficulty, its clean your 3 sisters are ganging up on you, regardless of the actuality that apparently such as you the place the only one to step as much as the plate and help your father have a high quality existence after his coronary heart attack That suggested some observations: the will suggested 25% each and each to all heirs, so did you ever see 25% of the different components your father had or has your sisters spent all those monies on pets? If the case i'd seek for suggestion from a felony expert to seek for a fit against the sister for misappropriation of money, and then whilst the home is at last bought you are able to recoup those monies unlawfully stolen from you by ability of the sister by ability of how except the money owed the place joint, how did your sisters income get entry to to disburse the monies devoid of probate and executor, if one grew to become into an executor and you probably did no longer get carry of your 25% of the monies, they violated their fiduciary accountability, ability regulation fit on the domicile, i will assume its wide-unfold tenants in person-friendly difficulty with each and each sibling have 25% yet on the comparable time this means you have purely as lots felony rights to the completed as the different siblings or all 3 against you this would not matter if titled tenants in person-friendly you have belongings rights interior the completed consequently they could no longer tension you to pass, you're an equivalent proprietor interior the completed, additionally they could no longer sell devoid of your approval, the only incorrect way is intense priced litigation in civil courtroom of fairness, and that's no longer inexpensive or speedy technique would desire to take as much as a 300 and sixty 5 days and value hundreds of dollars i'd seek for suggestion from a felony expert, i'd tell your sister as a identify proprietor with tenant in person-friendly you have a felony suitable to apply the completed belongings and could no longer pass, i'd additionally tell the sister you would be searching for felony reimbursement for those monies willed to you break away the domicile that your sister ineffective spent , i'd locate out who the actual belongings agent is call them on account which you're a felony proprietor of the domicile as tenants in person-friendly and till you resolved some difficulty with the three sisters you will no longer sign off on the sale settlement, devoid of your signature on the revenues settlement the agent has no settlement to sell the domicile,
2016-11-10 05:27:54 · answer #7 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your sister has no rights at all. Your sister had to live SOMEWHERE and pay rent to SOMEONE, so would she necessarily be entitled to ownership of an apartment just for paying rent? OF COURSE NOT!
She helped someone who she feels is taking advantage of her now. It happens. Tell her to find a new place to live & end the friendship if it's that big of a deal.
Always get things in writing, you never know when someone will try to screw you over.
Such is life, the friend hasn't broken any laws. Your sister, however, has to put the signs back up.
2007-09-12 02:34:05 · answer #8 · answered by Roland'sMommy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She can either offer to buy the house or move. That is about her only choices. That is what renters do (buy a house and let someone else pay the house payment for them) sorry.
2007-09-12 02:14:21 · answer #9 · answered by robert 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Her options are to move or buy the property. She is a tenant on a month-to-month tenancy. She has no legal claim to the property whatsoever unless she purchases it from the owner.
2007-09-12 02:38:39 · answer #10 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋