Q: My apt was sold and I have no info on current owners. There is no leasing agent.
My current lease expires on Oct 31 and my rent is due tomorrow but I cannot pay it without the name and address of the new owners. My lease agreement says I must give 30 days notice to vacate or pay an additional months rent. which I obviously can't given the circumstances. I cannot afford to pay rent on two properties for November if I sign a new lease elsewhere. Can they enforce that if I can't contact them? The previous owner will not give me the info either. They have turned off the water as well.
A: Go to your county property appraiser website and see if the new deed has been recorded. That your present landlord won't tell you to whom to send the rent is ridiculous and may be his way of cheating the new LL out of the rent. Maybe not.
A: Why not ask the property management company that has been accepting your payments since last October?
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