We are renting in California, have a lease that is up in May 2008. Just before x-mas we were informed the home had been foreclosed on. The landlady assured us this was a mistake and not to worry. I began investigating on my own which when confronted with new information the landlady grew more and more uncooperative and was harder and harder to contact. The bank served notice not to pay anymore rent and have given us 30 days to move. The landlady (who's own home is also sched. for a trustee sale 1/31/08) told us to contact her "lawyer". We did, he is not a lawyer he calls himself a fiduciary. Long story short, they are attempting to gain possession of both properties by way of a "loop hole" that boarders on the fraudulent if not is out and out illegal. Our landlords are not wanting to give us our deposit e back stating we owe them January rent and HOA fines that they have not even paid. I thought about threatening to expose their "loop hole" activity to the bank currently foreclosing on their second property, offering my silence for the immediate return of our deposit. Any thoughts?

