Business & Finance

We signed a 6 month lease with our landlord in March of 2008 paying $900 a month. We were never able to renew it with our landlords because they were always "busy" when I tried to schedule a meeting with them. In october of 2008 they said that they had "a stroke of good luck" and dropped our rent by $400. They took our deposit and put $500 toward the month of November and $400 toward the month of december and we continued to pay $500 a month until the end of May. We came home on May 24th to find an eviction notice on our door with a different address so we took it out to our landlord and they called us on the 25th and said it was for our address and that we had to be out by the 26th of May (2 days after the notice was on our door) When I finally got the truth out of my landlord I found out that the bank had foreclosed on the home (I have not gotten the exact date of the foreclosure yet) because they could not pay their mortgage any longer. When I spoke with the Bank's attorney she said that they had a hearing on the 19th of April that my landlord was informed about and that is when she was notified that we were to vacate the premises. My Landlord had neglected to share this bit of information with us until the day before we were to be out. We continued to pay them rent until we received the eviction notice (so we paid them for the month of May). Is their anyway that we could legally go about getting our money back or is this a lost case? Any answers would be helpful.

No you can not get your money back but you had better find housing or the sheriff will show up to evict you. This is happening soooo often right now, sorry but the LL is entitled to the rents until the house sold and even possibly through a redemption period allowed by your state.

The only thing I can tell you to do is try taking it to court and suing her. That is a mess you have on your hands!