In Asheville, North Carolina.
My three roommates and I (4 of us) all signed a lease and paid the $1850 deposit on a house with the landlady that we thought owned the house at the time. It turns out that the house had already been foreclosed by the bank a few days earlier. The landlady neglected to notify any of this and accepted the deposit anyways. We now have to get the deposit back (hopefully she will just give it back with no problem) and find somewhere else to live. My questions:
-Do we have any legal options here?
-Not that there would be much interest, but she should be responsible for paying us interest on the $1850 for the time that it was in her possession in addition to just giving it back to us, right?
Thanks!
My three roommates and I (4 of us) all signed a lease and paid the $1850 deposit on a house with the landlady that we thought owned the house at the time. It turns out that the house had already been foreclosed by the bank a few days earlier. The landlady neglected to notify any of this and accepted the deposit anyways. We now have to get the deposit back (hopefully she will just give it back with no problem) and find somewhere else to live. My questions:
-Do we have any legal options here?
-Not that there would be much interest, but she should be responsible for paying us interest on the $1850 for the time that it was in her possession in addition to just giving it back to us, right?
Thanks!