life use

My husband and I purchased my mother-in-law's home with a life use stipulation for her. Unfortunately things have turned sour. Are we stuck with this house and her forever???

Cash for keys offer after a forclosure

Recently my house has been sold in a sherriff sale. We have most of our stuff out of the house now but just was offered $500 cash for the keys and the place left clean. Wouldn't that offer have to come from the person who now owns the house through the Sherrif sale? Can you please explain Cash for Keys offers a bit better. Thank you.

how to make him sign sale papers?

my (ex)boyfriend & I own a house together. I want to sell, he wants me to wait until he can buy me out. this can be at least a year. He refuses to sign any papers to sell. #1-can I force the issue and #2 how does it work if he could buy me out? thanks.

Increasing Rent

how much can I raise the rent in the middle of a lease in New Jersey

owner at time of foreecloser sale

Reconvance Company sent me a letter saing i was owner at time of forclosher sale. and that money was owe me for surpluss funs. but i didnt except because noforcloser file against me bank in meger prosses and bank no answer to my demand to pay off loan are funds still aviable

steps to having a tenant move

could you please tell me the steps to get a tenant to move. I live in New York State and would like the tenant downstairs out. Do i need grounds to give them a 30 day notice to move?

DESPERATE FOR HELP

transfer of lease

does a lease where the business was carried automatically transfer when an unincorparated business is sold?

What happens to 1st mortgage after 2nd bought from foreclosure.

I have a first and second mortgage. Unbeknownst to me, the second mortgage went to foreclosure on 12/27/07, but the first is willing to work with me to reorganize. What happens now that second has been bought? What are my options?

property

Can anyone have controlling interest on property that is owned by 5 people? And if not what would be the best thing for me to do with 1/5 of some property?

Mortgage Note

I live in PA, just outside of Harrisburg.

I sold a property for 50,000.00 and I held the mortgage. That was back in 1997.

We hade a note drawn and it stated an interest rate, monthly payments for a certain # of years and

of course pay off date as well as penalties for lateness. We had a settlement, recorded deed and recorded

mortgage, which I am able to see on-line. But the recorded mortgage shows the 50,000.00 debt, but no other

info. I researched on line, everything I read keeps talking about a note. I can't find it! The guy who owes me

the money says he doesn't know what I am talking about. He feels once his payments reach 50,000.00 he is done.

He say's he doesn't know about any note. He says we agreed to a total price, and nothing more. I lost my copy.

Is there a copy of this somewhere? Was it recorded, but I am looking In the wrong place??? Is it like a dollar bill, lose it and tough? do I have any legal recourse?

Real Estate

I sold my home last year. At closing the buyer wanted money in escrow until he viewed the home inspection report which was not available at closing. The excrow agreement plainly states ''escrow held until inspection report received''. I never got back any escrow and we did not have an agreement on repairs. The abstract company who held the escrow, gave the buyer the whole check without contacting me. Now I'm thinking I got screwed. Was this legal?

Property rights

My brother & I have inherited a house & 19.144 acres with a house and a barn in 1999. Since then my older brother who does not work lives with me & my family,every year he pays less&less! This year he paid $0 on the utility bills and less than a third of the property taxes. He often says he should not have to pay anything! This has forced my to take out loans just to pay the taxes and putting me farther into debit. What can i do,what are my options?

real estate

If my name is on the deed but not the mortgage and the mortgage holders are deceased what rights might I have since they have put the home into foreclosure? The IRS also has leins on the home. Do I have to

sign off before they can sell?

After my parents passed I paid the mortgage but this company would make me go through sending paperwork in order to talk to me and

when I did make payments I would

still not catch up on arrears. Would I be better off to try to sell before foreclosure?

earnest money dispute

The seller, whom we represent, was given $10,000 in earnest money from the buyer for a home that was vacated before closing. The buyer had given our client a letter of pre approval from Wells Fargo so that financing could be backed. After the contract was drawn up and signed, the buyer was denied a loan and therefore wants to destroy the contract and receive all $10,000 in earnest money back because of a property approval clause in the contract stating that if the property does not satisfy lenders' requirement for the loan, the contract will terminate and earnest money be refunded to buyer.

Our counter stands as the clause directly beneath the former which points back to the addendum stating that the buyer must make every reasonable effort to obtain financing approval. The buyer made one single attempt when he obviously could have made more of an effort to obtain financing.

We are preparing for mediation and my question is, how does the law generally view earnest money contracts? Can oral representation or parol evidence be used to dispute this ''breech of contract'' or is it prety much black and white that the buyer could not obtain financing and therefore can retain his earnest money?

House Quit Claim

I am going thru a divorce and we are spliting up our assets.My soon to be ex will quit claim our house to me as long as I pay her a set amount of money out of it when the real estate market comes back up in a few years. She would also like to rent the house from me for awhile after i take possesion of the title.What should I be worried about in this tranaction? Can she come back later and get any rights to the house? I am worried about her filing some sort of homestead paper or some thing that would make things difficult

Partition Action- Joint tenant

My mother is going through a difficult time dissolving a partnership in which they co- own a house together. Her partner does not want to sell the house, but is not doing anything to finance the house himself. He cannot afford to pay the full morgage, and is basically expecting my mother to leave and give him the house. In the past she has left for months while traveling for work and sent money home to pay the morgage-only to return to it in near forclosure due to non-payment. He cannot be trusted. My mother does not want to stay in the house any longer. However, she was informed of abandonement rights in which if she left he could legally take over the house after a certain period of time. They are not married but have been living together for over ten years. My mother is afraid to seek professional counseling on account of possible exhorbitant lawyer fees.What is the best plan of action for her to seek assistance in resolving this matter- the quicker the better. She needs to leave this situation. It is unhealthy.

Using my home as colateral for a family member to buy a business

My home is in my name. Could my wife get a loan against it without my approval?

Forms Deed in lieu, Mortgage, etc

I need help. I need simple paperwork prepared. Please email me. Thanks

lis pendens

I filed lis pendens on a house that was being built on my land by a builder the price we agreed upon changed. my name and spouse name was forged builder and title co. sold house anyway.I never signed anything with builder all was verbal agreement.Lis pendens was filed 3 months before house sold.

warranty deed

My friend signed a warranty deed on propertyoverwhich was delinquent in taxes by more than the property was worth to a relative who owned the property nextto his to start a business. He was supposed to invest money & the land to make a corporation. The other couple got a 300,000 loan to pay off the taxes and liens on the property and make a building & signed the property over to the bank. My friend changed his mind and does not want to get a loan to invest in the corporation but wants to own half of the building & the business without investing any money. He did not pay anything and has not paid the loan payments while thebuilding is being constructed. Now he wants them to sign over the lots back to him or he will sue. He is my friend but he is planning to make them lose everything & default on the loan. Can he do that? There was no written agreement, but a verbal one which he is not complying with. He wants to say that they tricked him into signing over the property so that they have to sign back the property and default on the loan. Does he have a case? He was trying to get me to get a loan to buy some land and invest in the corp. I feel sorry for them & wonder if he can actually do it and how much it will cost?