Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Missouri

We bought a house on contract, 5 acres a pond and a double wide for 25,000 owner finance. We paid $5.000.00 down and another 2,800.00 in the last 7months that we have been here. On March 5th we gave the man another 5,000.00 which is a grand total of 12,800.00 which leaves us roughly 13 left to owe. This old man in his 80's keeps coming onto the property like he has run of the mill looking at our stuff and two months ago he had two amish man come pick up our propane tank full of propane. I said oh no you don't we bought this place fair and square and everything that this land has on it. He said he should own the propane tank. It wasn't even in the contract we just assumed since it was attached to the house that we have legality of it. Now he comes again today and looks all over the property and looks at the tank again. He never calls or knocks he just barges over. Does he have any right and is there anything that we can do. I wish we had the 13 grand just to pay off this place and get him out of our hair once and for all. This is getting so upsetting he should have no right.


Asked on 4/23/15, 1:57 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Anthony Smith LawSmith

The answer to your question is probably determined by the sales agreement you made. Take this matter to the attorney that drafted the sales agreement for you, or advised you prior to signing.

If you used no attorney, you may be learning a painful, yet valuable lesson. If there is no provision for occupancy, you probably have absteight forward sale agreement. As such, he doesn't have to let you live on or jeep your property, on the otemuses until you finish paying.

Be careful about ticking off or offending the seller, unless you can afford to rent somewhere else, pending your remaining payments.

The good news is that, if it is a straight sales agreement, (and it sounds like the seller is treating it as one) you can probably cancel the deal and get your money back.

Good luck

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Answered on 5/01/15, 12:36 pm


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