Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Minnesota

if you have a lease that is not up like still have a year and a half and the owners want you out in 60 days we did not sign anything and we paid are rent on time for the last 4 yrs we have been trying to buy the house from them that is not going well he just wants to much money can he kick us out if we by a new house and that will not be done till august.


Asked on 5/04/17, 1:14 pm

2 Answers from Attorneys

David Anderson Anderson Business Law LLC

Need to review Lease to advise but you may have lawsuit for Breach of Lease

I have 35 years experience in LL Tenant law

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Answered on 5/04/17, 1:17 pm
Tricia Dwyer Tricia Dwyer Esq & Assoc PLLC

Hello. Lease agreements may be written or oral. It sounds as tho' you may think you have formed an agreement not just to live in the site, but to have your payments be applied toward you becoming the owner of the home. For your issue, I suggest, as a starting point, you may want to go to the MN Attorney General website which has excellent and clearly written materials about this area of law generally. My impression is that you would be wise to choose a qualified and well exp'd att'y at this time and obtain a formal legal opinion. MN has very, very strict and detailed laws pertaining to renting and those laws very much focus on protecting tenants from landlords who try to exploit them, 'do a shakedown' on them. The potential financial (& other) penalties to landlords for any wrongful conduct can be very steep fyi.

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Answered on 5/04/17, 2:19 pm


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