Recently rented an apartment, paid realtor fee, house sold, asked to leave...

[bentlebee]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

No, there are actually states where the new owner (or existing owner) can break the lease if the owner intends to owner -occupy. New Jersey, maybe? And a couple of other states, besides. Also, in some states, an owner can remove a tenant on rent control if the owner moves into the unit.

It sounds like the OP was on month to month, so none of that lease breaking stuff applies, anyway.

Can you provide a link to any State that allows a lease to be broken to move back in?

I never heard of that. Perhaps you are confused with foreclosures and a new owner buying a foreclosure and the new owner can by law give notice and move in with a 90 days notice but there are certain requirements for that.

Under Bush the law changed that if a lease was signed after a property was in foreclosure the lease will not be valid to protect a tenant BUT if the lease was in place prior to any foreclosure procedings than a tenant can stay until the end of the lease.

Since most foreclosures are taking longer than one year any tenant should know about the property be in foreclosure sicne tenants, even "unknown tenants" always get served or delivered papers at the property address.

[NY Annie]

Just getting the realtor to give up his finder's fee for the new rental isn't making the OP whole - moving expenses, deposits on utilities, etc. So I would negotiate for at least moving costs. I would also do as another poster suggested and contact this agent's broker since it seems he was less than honest with the OP. And, if the new owners are anxious to have an empty apartment, they should be willing to accommodate you some way.