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lilybel
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My husband and I signed a sublease in April 2000. This sublease expires in December and at that time we were to sign lease with the owner. Prior to moving in the house, there was a pile of "garbage" in the backyard. It included coolers filled with rotten food, beer bottles to numerous to count, garbage cans filled to overflowing, and various other items covered with mold and garbage. I asked the sublessor if the items would be removed prior to us moving in and he advised me that the items would be removed by the owner. When we moved in, all of it was still there. I called sublessor again and he said he would call owner again for resolution. I received a call back and sublessor advised me that all of the items could be discarded per owner. He offered to bring a trailer by and pick the stuff up but we had a truck and agreed to take care of it. We discarded all without discrimination. A month later, my husband met the owner for the first time and advised him that we had discarded items on the authority of the sublessor. He said this constituted breach of contract on the part of the sublessor. He stated he never authorized the destruction of his property. We never heard anything again until this month when the sublessor received a letter from the owner stating he was terminating contract in 30 days. He advised sublessor to send us an eviction notice. Sublessor is stating as far as he is concerned his contract with owner is still valid and he will contest this. In the meantime the owner advised us orally that we must be out in 30 days. We do not know what to do? We do not want to move and still be under obligation to the sublessor. We have done nothing wrong. We have only been there 3 months and will have to endure the expense of another move. Do we have any recourse regarding recouping these expenses? Who are we reponsible to..both the owner and the sublessor? Who takes precedence? We have two people telling us what to do- one says stay and one says go.