Q: Can a house guest that has become a resident refuse to leave a home when it is put up for sale by the owner?
My grandmother has two fam house , paying tenant upstairs. My aunt lives with her and her boyfriend claims to pay rent for a room elsewhere but sleeps by my grandmother every night and every day is there with my aunt. If something god forbid happens to my grandmother , and her three children want to sell the house, can this dead beat (possibly
Now a resident) boyfriend stop the sale and refuse to leave, thereby needing to be evicted? And even though he doesn’t pay rent in cash payments, he has done light maintenance work and stays there every day now for 8+ months....is he really no longer a guest but now a resident? He doesn’t have mail sent to the address. Thank you for your time in responding to my inquiry.
A: Yes. From what you described he sounds like he needs to be evicted through legal means if he chooses to stay.
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