Are they trying to evict you from the land, or from the trailer? It may make a significant difference in the legal strategies employed. For the trailer, I don’t see how they have any standing. They don’t own it and their selling it to you was fraudulent from the beginning. As for the land and/or utility hookups, as long as your rental payments are current, you should be safe until your lease is up. If they’re refusing your rental payments, you should put that money in escrow until the case is settled. If they’ve accepted them, it’s a tacit admission that you have the right to be there and again, they have no standing to evict you unless they’re claiming you’re a nuisance/detriment of some sort.
I knew the fence around my yard needed to be replaced because the boards have dry rot and the previous owners had applied braces at different points to keep it standing. Yesterday, I learned how far that rot had spread when a section fell down due to two vertical posts breaking off at the concrete due to rot. I didn’t know pressure-treated wood could do that.
Now to go outside and finish adding the rest of the braces to keep it intact until the weather gets better and I can start getting the materials together to replace the fence.
Well, we both know they can’t provide you the title. They don’t, and never did, have legal possession of that. You’ve also implied that the furnace is not fixable or replaceable.
The law cannot compel an impossibility.
You’d better have those rent payments in escrow. Just to be safe.
I’m having far too much trouble trying to replace an electric baseboard heater. On the plus side, the replacement, once working, will probably be less of a fire hazard than the old one, which the previous owner had painted over so many times it was impossible to open neatly for removal.
Yeah, I hear that. I have light switches, electrical outlets, windows, doors, etc., which have all been painted over. As in, some windows can’t be opened and one door required a hammer to open in warm weather, until I scraped off some of the paint.
I also have windows sealed shut with expanding foam, walls patched with some sort of silicone-based putty, plumbing (where it comes up through the floor) sealed with expanding foam, heater vents sealed with pieces of cheap linoleum, etc.
They say duct tape covers a multitude of sins. It seems that putty, expanding foam, and linoleum cover an excessive of stupidity and incompetence.
Returning energy levels have improved all areas of my life.
As an aside, for a week after treatment if I don’t wear protection, then I’m administering chemo. I even have to flush the toilet twice and close the lid for three days so I don’t kill the dog.
What I really hate is when people wallpaper over where light switches and power sockets used to be but without filling the hole in. That way, when you remove the wallpaper because seriously, come on, it’s not the 1980s, you have to break out the old Thistle and float and wait another day before you can paint.
Either that or over enthusiastic people who have bought hideous faux-brass faceplates and have screwed them in so tight the plaster has crumbled to nothing and you have to take everything back to the backing box and build the wall out again. …or just put a plastic fingerplate around them, like I did >.> hehe
I didn’t notice this until after we bought the house. The fact that there were more windows on the outside than there were on the inside never occurred to me. And I only noticed because I walked in there once during the day without turning the light on and noticed light coming through.
That is exactly what I found after I bought my rental property five or six years ago! I had the shower insert pulled out, installed a real bathtub and tiled the walls. The window was fine.
You’re lucky, they used a brush on these windows. It just looks smeared on the glass (the ones where it looked smeared on the plexiglass have been removed, thankfully).
Our house has had a sunroom built on which now contains the back door. We found this out when we went into the laundry, there was the original back door - complete with deadlock! - hiding a set of very shallow shelves.
Needless to say, while we were painting the place during the next couple of weeks, we removed the door.
