No rental agreement and they want BACK RENT?!?!
My husband and I are about to close on our first home and we have been living in a rental home for about 16 months. We had a verbal agreement with the "landlord" that we would fix the house up in exchange for rent. We have never paid them a cent for rent and we have done substantial work on the house. We received an email today stating that they would be charging us for 16 months of rent minus what THEY think the jobs we did cost (even though we have an itemized list of what they DID cost). She wants a check ASAP for over 6,000 dollars. We never had a rental agreement, never signed anything in fact! Our only discussions with them were verbal: that we would fix the house up and pay no rent. What do we do?? What kinds of rights do we have?? Do they have a case????? Please help!!!! :cry: