Legal Question in Real Estate Law in West Virginia

Lousy neighbors are keeping me from my land....

I placed a contract to purchase a piece of property from my former

employer. I paid $5000 as a down payment,to be owner financed per a

written contract. When the closing date passed, they asked me to extend

the term. It was not altered in its written form, but the extension was

witnessed and the owners consistently referred to the property as

belonging to me...(his lot, his property, etc). I also made substantial

improvements on the lot ($30K), based on their promise to sell it.

I had a dispute with adjacentowners, following my denial of their use of

MY property to ride their horses. They made a statement to another

owner that ''they intended to keep me from purchasing the property.''

The owners (my former employers) let me go in June, and denied me the

right to their contracted ''owner financing'', instead, demanding

immediate payment in full for the property. Following my inability to

close, they kept my deposit, despite a clause stating that it would be

refunded ''in the absence of financing''.

The owners ''let me go'' so they would not face any ''potential lawsuits''

from the neighbors.

Do I have recourse under any form of tort? (interference with contract?)

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