Q: Legal rights as a tenant where landlord is selling property? Nothing in lease agreement about him violating the contract
Are we legally able to move since he broke the agreement? Are we legally entitled to receive our security deposit back? What kind of rights do we have about who enters our home when we are at work?
A: You have a rental agreement or lease with the owner. If he sells the property, the new owner fills the same shoes as owner and is bound by the lease or rental agreement you now have. Your rights have not changed. He has the right to sell the property. The new owner has all the rights the old owner had.
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