[LillianaGates]

How can Landlords get away with…

Defrauding a Bank
Do illegal Shut-off’s
Misrepresent a law firm
Falsify lease contracts

I had to sue my landlord for shutting off my utilities for 16 days without prior warning. Legal Aid provided me with an attorney who saw to it that I not only got my water re-stored but got the Judge to ordered her to pay for my damage fees and provide me with a copy of my lease agreement. As of the 1st day of Dec. 2006, I signed a lease/purchase agreement with said party which she in turn took home with her along with her copy due to my lack of foresight. I have called her numerous times, went to her house but to no avail. The copy she made at the courthouse is NOT the copy of the agreement we went into for lease/purchase of this dwelling and she knows it.

The “Original” copy before she altered it stated that we were buying the house for the sum of $171,000.00 signed by the owner of the property. When I saw the copy of the document she handed me after court this morning I was shocked! It’s my fault for not making my self clear because what I probably should have asked the Judge to say “Original copy”. This new 3 page document has a different top cover that says Residential Lease not Lease Purchase? On the 2nd page it states that none of the utilities were to be left in her name. Then on the 3rd page where my husband and I signed was completely different in wording as to have, “when” we purchased instead of “if” we purchase said property.

I would never have signed a document that has only my husband as lessee omitting my name in print by landlord’s handwriting on that said Residential lease when two people can live on the premise. Now except for the true copy of the lease/ purchase agreement which I did sign with my signature, The first thing they did wrong was when they altered it is, in the place they signed being owner and her seller, has two totally different names.

The signee has in fact moved and established permanent residence in Pennsylvania back in Oct. of 2006. How can she be in two places at once? If she no longer owned a shared part in the company why would she sign as on any agreement as V.P. of that said company? Leaving the owner that pays the mortgage totally out of the picture? All the mortgage payments I made were never sent into the mortgage company.

In April the landlord called us and said that the bank is foreclosing on a property we swore we were in the process of buying? Now they are trying to evict us on a 3-day notice knowing full well that it is almost impossible to find a place on the spare of the moment when we have a pit-bull. She is 5 gen. of show dog but landlords don’t see how tame she is they only listen to the name of the breed.

My question to you is… should I take this to court? We have been in contact with the bank that he got the loan from; he got his money and now wants to sell it back to the bank for an outrageous price for a sinkhole that they never told the bank about to begin with! Unsuspecting people like us never get heard!

The list goes on…and no one will do anything about it!
Can you help me?
Lilliana

[Prichard]

If you are claiming the person committed fraud, but don't have a copy of what you signed, you have one very tough fight on your hand. A crooked person who has no problem altering the terms of a lease will have no problems covering their tracks by destroying any evidence of what you signed.

There are ways to check documents for alterations and forgery, but you will need to get someone qualified to do this. I doubt that legal aid will help you with this. When it comes to problems with landlords / option contracts, etc., most attorneys will want to get paid up front.

Sorry to hear about this kind of stuff happening. People really need to be careful before they give ANYONE a large some of money or sign a legal document like a lease or purchase contract. The Sellers might seem like the nicest people in the world to you, and in fact when you signed the contract, perhaps they were - but some people have a way of turning bad when their back is up against the wall financially. Not to mention, there are pleanty of out-and-out crooks out there that will lie, cheat and steal just to get their hands in your pockets.

[macguy]

Originally Posted by LillianaGates

How can Landlords get away with…

Defrauding a Bank
Do illegal Shut-off’s
Misrepresent a law firm
Falsify lease contracts

I had to sue my landlord for shutting off my utilities for 16 days without prior warning. Legal Aid provided me with an attorney who saw to it that I not only got my water re-stored but got the Judge to ordered her to pay for my damage fees and provide me with a copy of my lease agreement. As of the 1st day of Dec. 2006, I signed a lease/purchase agreement with said party which she in turn took home with her along with her copy due to my lack of foresight. I have called her numerous times, went to her house but to no avail. The copy she made at the courthouse is NOT the copy of the agreement we went into for lease/purchase of this dwelling and she knows it.

The “Original” copy before she altered it stated that we were buying the house for the sum of $171,000.00 signed by the owner of the property. When I saw the copy of the document she handed me after court this morning I was shocked! It’s my fault for not making my self clear because what I probably should have asked the Judge to say “Original copy”. This new 3 page document has a different top cover that says Residential Lease not Lease Purchase? On the 2nd page it states that none of the utilities were to be left in her name. Then on the 3rd page where my husband and I signed was completely different in wording as to have, “when” we purchased instead of “if” we purchase said property.

I would never have signed a document that has only my husband as lessee omitting my name in print by landlord’s handwriting on that said Residential lease when two people can live on the premise. Now except for the true copy of the lease/ purchase agreement which I did sign with my signature, The first thing they did wrong was when they altered it is, in the place they signed being owner and her seller, has two totally different names.

The signee has in fact moved and established permanent residence in Pennsylvania back in Oct. of 2006. How can she be in two places at once? If she no longer owned a shared part in the company why would she sign as on any agreement as V.P. of that said company? Leaving the owner that pays the mortgage totally out of the picture? All the mortgage payments I made were never sent into the mortgage company.

In April the landlord called us and said that the bank is foreclosing on a property we swore we were in the process of buying? Now they are trying to evict us on a 3-day notice knowing full well that it is almost impossible to find a place on the spare of the moment when we have a pit-bull. She is 5 gen. of show dog but landlords don’t see how tame she is they only listen to the name of the breed.

My question to you is… should I take this to court? We have been in contact with the bank that he got the loan from; he got his money and now wants to sell it back to the bank for an outrageous price for a sinkhole that they never told the bank about to begin with! Unsuspecting people like us never get heard!

The list goes on…and no one will do anything about it!
Can you help me?
Lilliana

You need to find another place to live.