Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Idaho

when property managers change, can the new property manager force you to sign a

Our property manager, whom works on behalf of the owners of the property that we lease, closed her business and moved. All of her properties except ours were transferred to a new property manager. Our owners decided to go with a different property manager. The lease and deposit information was transferred, we have been told by the property manager that took over the other properties to the owners. Neither the owners nor the original property manager claim they have the signed lease, nor the deposit. Our copy of the lease is an unsigned but accurate copy of the lease that does not expire until Sept. 30, 2000. The new property manager wants us to sign a new lease under new terms including 100 dollars more rent per month and a new, larger deposit or have given us 30 days to move our family of 6. We have been good tenants, paying our rent on time, etc. Is this legal? How can we fight it?


Asked on 8/28/99, 2:32 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jeffery Hess Hawkins-Smith

Re: when property managers change, can the new property manager force you to sig

Get an attorney. They have to proceed to evict you and the fact will be evidence. That is, you have checks showing that you paid rent for the period of time that you have been in the property. If they do not have a copy of the lease then you copy although unsigned is evidence. Does the previous property manager deny that you had a lease? There are a lot of questions, so you need to see an attorney.

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Answered on 9/01/99, 9:45 am


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