On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 9:30:07 AM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 7/15/2017 5:45 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> > "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.
> >
> Until actual money changes hands and the deed is handed over ("closing
> the deal"), it's nothing more than a handshake even though it's on
> paper. Either party can back out at any time up to that point.
>
> Jill

If they wanna get SUED to within an inch of their lives, trying to back out of a SIGNED CONTRACT!! Real and PUNITIVE damages too! Plus paying the lawyers too!

John Kuthe...