"Bruce" wrote in message ...

On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:03:55 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>On Friday, July 14, 2017 at 5:22:26 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>> On 7/13/2017 8:25 AM, Gary wrote:
>> > Janet wrote:
>> >> says...
>> >>> And my housemates love me so much as their landlord they gave ME
>> >> their July 2017 rent checks rather than our cheap Chinese landlord! (I
>> >> just deposited those checks too, today!)
>> >>
>> >> Just wait till the Chinese OWNER of the property finds out HIS
>> >> tenants didn't pay HIM their rent this month.
>> >
>> > I was thinking the same thing. John is not the owner yet and the
>> > chinese
>> > owner gets the rent until then.
>> >
>> John is delusional if he thinks he's already their landlord. He's not;
>> they aren't John's tenants. What part of [he] doesn't own the house is
>> so hard for John to grasp?
>>
>> > This really does sound like a fail-fail situation. Maybe John should
>> > stop right now, swallow his losses and go look for a better house to
>> > buy. This entire deal with all the future repairs sounds so not right
>> > to
>> > me.
>> >
>> > No sane person would ever fix up a house until after closing and they
>> > own it. The chinese landlord is probably loving all this insane
>> > nonsense.
>> >
>> > John...he could even cancel the sale after you spend half your fortune
>> > fixing up HIS house. Wake up.
>> >
>> He sure could. You can bet he's keeping an eye on everything that's
>> going on in that house. In fact, as the legal landlord, he has every
>> right to enter and look around the property. He could take one look at
>> these improvements and decide he doesn't want to sell. Until closing,
>> he can back out at any time.
>>
>> Jill
>
>Oh and he does whenever he wants. But he;s out of town right now.
>
>WE have to do these things to close the sale and then he and his partner
>get $108,000 cash. If the sellers back out after I've paid to have all
>this occupancy permit inspection stuff brought up to code I'm sure I'd have
>a very good case for a civil lawsuit against them. They signed the sale
>contract too after all!

But isn't it strange to collect rent for a property you don't own yet?

==

If they have signed the sale contract, does that not indicated they have
sold it to him? Not sure how it works there.



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