Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Florida

Husband and I are renting a town house in the Central Florida area. This is our 2 renewal of the place and have a lease until December. We are current on rent and always on time with payment. We get along great with the landlord. He was trying to sell is the place and we've been looking at some options, but have found getting funding hard. Yesterday he came over with a realtor to take pictures of our place. Apparently he is in debt and trying to do a short sale of the property ASAP. The process to post it on the MLS is already started. The realtor basically told us we should be empathic for his situation, and showed little concern for us. She would try to find an investor buyer who would rent to us. At first when prompted she said we'd probably pay "fair market value" on rent, then she saw my sour look and said she's place it in the contract that the buyer would have to honor the current lease until the end of its term. I don't trust her to do either. I feel like she pushing us to move so she can sell. What are our legal rights and options? We're about to have our first child and this unforeseen event is very stressful.


Asked on 4/19/13, 8:48 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Barry Stein De Cardenas, Freixas, Stein & Zachary

Do you have a written lease? You never mention this. If you do then the purchaser takes the property subject to that lease. If you have no written lease then you are technically on a month to month if that is how you pay your rental. They can terminate the lease providing you 15 days notice at the end of any given month.

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Answered on 4/19/13, 2:36 pm


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