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to John Kuthe
"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Bruce" wrote in message
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> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 23:03:55 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> > wrote:
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>>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?
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>>> > 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
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>>Oh and he does whenever he wants. But he;s out of town right now.
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>>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!
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> But isn't it strange to collect rent for a property you don't own yet?
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> If they have signed the sale contract, does that not indicated they have
> sold it to him? Not sure how it works there.
The sale hasn't closed. Either side could back out.
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