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  1. #1
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    Default House sold mid lease

    we signed a three month lease with a lanlord who said we could renew in july for the same monthly rent. after money for deposit and rent was paid people began showing up to look at the house for buying. we then later found out that the house was on the market. the new owner of the property will renew with us in july but the rent might increase drastically. (300-1000 dollars) should the original lanlord have informed us that the property was indeed on the market and could be sold. this is bad because if we have to move we have lost about 1000$ in furnishing the new house and trasfering services/utilities. what should we do or are we dumb for not asking if the house was for sale.

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    Default Sale of Rental House

    Asking might not have helped - if your landlord wanted you to know he was selling, he probably would have told you. Assuming the house was sold as an income-generating property, he may well have offered you the rental rate you received because he knew the house would be more marketable with a tenant. With a three month lease, the buyer wouldn't be locked into that lease or rent amount.

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    Default verbal?

    the past lanlord told us while we were signing the lease that "we will have no problem renewing in july for a year lease" and that "the rent will stay the same" does this hold as a verbal contract and could we go to small claims court and see if we could pay the new lanlord 750 (our current rent) and have the previous realty agency be held responsible for the diffrence? It seems logically that when the new lanlord purchased the house he is responsible for the current leases, but is the past lanlord resposible for any outstanding contracts verbal or written? both myself and my two roomates were agreed to this from our past lanlord before we ever signed the lease. we wouldn't have moved in/signed otherwise.

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    Default Oral Rental Agreement

    Whether or not you can hold the landlord (or the landlord's successor) to an oral rental agreement depends upon the laws of your state (particularly the "statute of frauds"), and the terms of the agreement. There are also issues of proof if the landlord denies any agreement beyond the actual lease agreement.

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