I am currently renting a house in San Bernardino Cou...

Submitted by staceybutcher70 from CA - 01/30/2009 - 5:21pm

I am currently renting a house in San Bernardino County. I moved in at the end of August. I found out that the owner has not made any payments since 08/01/08. Something came in the mail in November 2008 which stated he was months behind. I went to the recorders office and found notice of default filed 11/13/08. It didn't state when they would sell the house. So how long until it would be sold? And at what point do I stop paying the owner? Also in 04/03/08 they quit claimed deeded the house back to the ex wife but am renting from the husband. So legally it is not his house, right? It is all so weird. Any information would help me out.

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Submitted by Sean - 02/06/2009 - 11:40pm

The quit claim to the ex-wife is a strange twist. Perhaps a hail mary pass in the hopes that it will affect her credit rather than his. You didn't mention whether or not you have a lease. If you don't you may want to consider giving 30 days notice and finding another place.
 
Given the notice of default was filed in November it is unlikely to go to sale until late March at the earliest. And even if it does go to sale the bank will have to give you 60 days notice, and they will likely offer you some cash to move sooner. You may find recovering your deposit difficult at that point... though the law is absolutely on your side on that front, it just may take a while.

Submitted by Mina - 08/19/2009 - 6:44am

We rented a house in june 2009, however owners did not wanted to provide a rental agreement at that time, its now august and owner was forced to provide a month to month rental agreement stating that my move in date started in june, 09, but the lease agreement was signed and dated 08/10/09....

Landlord has refused to give us a key to the mail box, therefore they pick up the mail at there convinience and drop off to us, in ocasions my peronal mail is delivered opened and my utilities are already on past due notices and sometimes its a closing bill, causing us to run everytime at the last minute so they don't disconnect our utilities, I have asked to be provided with a key and she refuses to do so! reason being i just found out she has not made a mortgage payment on this house for at least 8 to 10 months. but she still is expecting for to pay rent or else she wants to evict us, when in fact we have a rental agreement.

PLEASE ADVISE WHAT RIGHTS DO WE HAVE AS TENANTS: ? Do we continue to pay rent to her in order to avoid being evicted or do we wait for the bank to evict us, since she is not willing to refund us our money or help us relocate? PLEASE ADVISE YOUR, ADVISE WILL BE GLADLY APPRECIATED.

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