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  1. #1
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    Default Demand for Repayment of Rent Assistance Due to Landlord's Foreclosure

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Massachusetts

    When I originally moved in, I received assistance from a non-profit that helps in such areas. They paid two months of rent (first and last). However, I was not told at the time by the landlord that the house was in foreclosure: her mother had signed the house over to her in her will, but it was part of a reverse mortgage. For the past five years she's been in limbo and renting out part of it. To date, she told no one about the accommodations, and reluctantly admitted the house was in foreclosure because DTA required her to inform me, since my rent money ($650.00) was NOT going towards the mortgage or utilities. Because of this, the no-profit found out, and are threatening to come after me for fraud if I don't pay them back. Apparently, they can't help people in foreclosure.

    My question is what do I do in this instance?

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    Default Re: Demand for Repayment of Rent Assistance Due to Landlord's Foreclosure

    Seems to me that they are huffing and puffing trying to scare you into forking over money.

    You had no knowledge of the foreclosure so there was no intent to defraud.

    It's up to you but, at this point, "threatening" is not "doing."

    There is nothing you can do to stop the huffing and puffing, other than turn a deaf ear, and nothing you can do, short of paying them back, that will prevent legal action if it comes to that so I suggest that you quit talking to those people and just wait and see what happens.

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