I just learned that my landlord is selling the house I live in ASAP. There is an open house on THIS SUNDAY. There is a good chance Katie and I will have to move, and this means moving back to Texas about 8 months before we planned. UGH!
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dakotasmith said, (317 days ago)
I just learned that my landlord's landlord is selling the house he lives in. There is an open house THIS SUNDAY. There is a good chance Katie and he will have to move back to Texas, and this means me moving out.
benbrown said, (317 days ago)
There is a chance that the new owner will re-rent the house to us. Who knows if they will want to raise the rent or something - it is already pretty high.
If they want to move in, apparently the law is that they have to pay each of us (Katie and I, that is...) a few thousand dollars to cover the expense of being evicted.
This of course will not fully cover the cost of moving all of our stuff back to Texas, and then probably into storage, until we can find a new place to move into. Or the inconvenience of totally fucking up our wedding plans. And Katie's job.
x said, (317 days ago)
small silver lining: your vote for Obama, while maybe not making Texas go blue, will actually matter more there than here
where in Texas? Austin at least?
dakotasmith said, (317 days ago)
See, I wish the thumbs down were for good posts about BAD THINGS so if I wanted to express sympathy, or read about other peoples shitty lives (and ostensibly feel better about my own shitty life), I could.
be secret and exult said, (317 days ago)
That sucks, except don't you guys really wanna be back in Austin anyway?
benbrown said, (317 days ago)
This is the kind of lack of control over one's own life that can really drive you insane! I feel like I should just start packing now and be done with it.
dakotasmith said, (317 days ago)
Yeah, it's almost like the universe is going HERE IS WHAT YOU WANT IF YOU WANT IT SO MUCH.
benbrown said, (317 days ago)
I will totally take it! I just wish I wasn't being forced to take it so quickly.
Lams said, (317 days ago)
Ban - a friend of mine went through the same thing. She refused to move out and eventually got a very large settlement to move. I think you can hold out for more money. Email me if you want her contact info.
skipbreakfast said, (317 days ago)
I found a 6-month lease 2 houses away from a place in a situation like that on short notice. I'm not saying it's the best decision you can make, but it can happen, and it's cheap!
seemingly satanic said, (317 days ago)
Gah, what a pain in the ass, seriously. I am sorry.
Also, yeah... you can't really be evicted without a lot of work and money on the part of your new and prospective landlords. And shouldn't the whole house market thing impact this as well? Maybe it won't sell so quickly, or close very quickly... I'll hope for the best for you guys.
schlomo said, (317 days ago)
LAME!!!
Welcome to SF, though... I've been evicted and have my house burn down. This town is definitely made for nomads and transients.
benbrown said, (317 days ago)
San Francisco, where the city itself wants you to go fuck yourself, literally and figuratively.
Driftwood said, (317 days ago)
You could be in a worse situation...
At least you're not being forced to move to Michigan!
I think the $3400 a month student loan bill is reason enough for me to force myself to move somewhere like Austin...
Reamworks SKG said, (316 days ago)
Don't worry! It'll take him a YEAR to sell the house, if he's lucky. (Though if he's having trouble paying the mortgage, the bank may end up being the landlord)
bringonthescience said, (316 days ago)
Perhaps you can ask the new people to let you stay the remaining time you had planned. This also gives them time to find tenants and the like.
also, don't you OWN a house in texas? kick those fuckers out and move back in(sorry dakota).
dakotasmith said, (316 days ago)
Yeah. Alex gets to stay, but I'll have to surf some couches. I hear the summer is an excellent time to visit Mountain View.
reardensteel said, (315 days ago)
http://www.sfgov.org/site/rentboard_page.asp?id=3056
they can only raise rent upon renewal 7%. also, it looks like they can only kick you out before the lease is up if they want to give the space to an immediate family member.
if they try and boot you out, i think it might be cause for you to lawyer up. also, you get something like 180 days notice for an eviction. 6 months is a while. if you've only got 8 months before you want to go back to texas, you might be able to negotiate with the new owner.
although the laws aren't exactly the same, where i am, the house in which i rent my apartment was sold over the summer. the new landlord was legally obligated to honor my remaining lease. as far as i know, when a property is sold, all leases remain in effect until their lawful termination date, unless the property is to be occupied by the new owner or immediate family.
i hope this all helps.
This, btw, is why I moved last month. I moved into the basement of a house on the agreement that it would be mine for at least a year or more, probably more like two years. I agree to build out the space pretty much from scratch since the rent is tiny and the space, while awful in many ways, is quite large. Sadly, I didn't get this in writing. So I have cases of stuff shipped to that address, move in, get up and running, and start doing things like stripping paint off the doors and cleaning out the storage rooms. Less than two months after I move in the owner says that she is about to put the house on the market. So I basically camped out there from June until January while I did all of my other work, finally found a place and here I am.
The bright sides: It gave me an excuse to do even more traveling and staying with friends. Now I've got a better space in a much better location.
I guess that with the freakish real estate market, this kind of crap is really going around.
Dude.... not cool. Is your landlord even allowed to do that? Sell your home?