Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania
Verbal Agreement with Father
My father moved out of our house over a year ago. We had a verbal contract that we would not have to pay rent, just put the utility bills etc. in our name and pay them and our food shopping etc..and keep up the house and he would still pay the mortgage. He just came back telling us he is home and wants us to leave, Do we?
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Re: Verbal Agreement with Father
Your question fails to explain who owns the property, and more importantly what the terms of the verbal agreement are or were?
Now if you are owners of this property, you most likely can treat your relationship with your father as a landlord / tenant situation, however, it all depends on the laws of your state and what the terms of the verbal agreement were, and more importantly was any of this placed into writing?
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Re: Verbal Agreement with Father
If you were paying the utilities on a month to month basis, chances are a court would find you to be a month to month tenant, unless there is some promise on his part that this was to continue for some definitive length of time, he probably can make you leave. I offer free consultations.
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