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MandaBear
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What is the name of your state? Iowa
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A "friend" of my family has been trying to get us to move in with him and split the rent and utilities and all that, a typical roomate type situation. He says our apartment is too small and he likes spending time with us. Anyway, he gets to rent this big farmhouse on the edge of town, with land, and asks us to move in with him. As we are begining to feel that the apartment is a bit crowded, we agree to half the rent, half the utilities. We offer to have ours paid in the begining of the month, he says not to worry about it, he can't have it all done by the 17 anyway. Go ahead and move stuff in,though, he says, it's all cleared with the landlord. (he is already practically living there anyway). So we get started moving crap in and buying the stuff you need to transfer from apartment to house in country.
Eventually there is an argument when he locks my brother out of the house when he is there to clean up his room with a friend of his. That escalates into why we haven't gotten a key yet, and then an argument over whether or not there could be cows in the pasture (he already had agreed to it, offered to help buy one even). We leave after a lengthy argument and say we will back the 17. We stop by around the 10 to deliver a messege to him from work, and find all the stuff we brought over there, sitting outside. When he came back, another argument followed.
But anyway, to the point-- since he promised we would be "roomies" then changed his mind, and we invested money and lost out on other houses we were going to call, isn't that detrimental reliance on a promise and we can be reimbursed for the loss? Plus, can he legally throw our stuff outside without telling us?
Scroll to bottom to get to actual point.
A "friend" of my family has been trying to get us to move in with him and split the rent and utilities and all that, a typical roomate type situation. He says our apartment is too small and he likes spending time with us. Anyway, he gets to rent this big farmhouse on the edge of town, with land, and asks us to move in with him. As we are begining to feel that the apartment is a bit crowded, we agree to half the rent, half the utilities. We offer to have ours paid in the begining of the month, he says not to worry about it, he can't have it all done by the 17 anyway. Go ahead and move stuff in,though, he says, it's all cleared with the landlord. (he is already practically living there anyway). So we get started moving crap in and buying the stuff you need to transfer from apartment to house in country.
Eventually there is an argument when he locks my brother out of the house when he is there to clean up his room with a friend of his. That escalates into why we haven't gotten a key yet, and then an argument over whether or not there could be cows in the pasture (he already had agreed to it, offered to help buy one even). We leave after a lengthy argument and say we will back the 17. We stop by around the 10 to deliver a messege to him from work, and find all the stuff we brought over there, sitting outside. When he came back, another argument followed.
But anyway, to the point-- since he promised we would be "roomies" then changed his mind, and we invested money and lost out on other houses we were going to call, isn't that detrimental reliance on a promise and we can be reimbursed for the loss? Plus, can he legally throw our stuff outside without telling us?