What rights if any do I have?

[lw100]

I live in the state of Tennessee and my situation is somewhat complicated, my husband and I live on property owned by his sister and brother in law, we only have an oral agreement and that agreement was that we could stay indefinately, however my sister in law and her husband are now involved in a bitter divorce. We have a double wide mobile home and have installed a septic tank and done various improvements on the property we occupy. The property is now set to be sold within 6 weeks, do we have any legal recourse as to being able to purchase at market value the half of the land we occupy because my former brother in law will not willingly sell it to us, or can we possible file a suit to recoup the value of the improvements we have installed?

 

[djdj]

I hope you learn a lesson from this.......never live without a wriiten lease...even if its family.

So who is selling the property and who is the buyer?
Do you own the double wide?

If you do not get a 30 day eviction notice, then the buyer of the property is the new landlord and the lot rent will be paid to him, and he will have to give you a 30 day notice to vacate.

What you can do to throw a money wrench into the sale is show up at the closing with all your reciepts regarding the septic tank, and since it is an oustanding bill, it will have to be decided before the closing can continue.

seriously... you have a legal right to attend the closing and present outstanding bills, what about a security deposit did you pay one?

 

[lw100]

My husband and I own the Mobile Home, the sellers are my husbands sister and her exhusband, we have lived here for over 6 years and the septic bill was paid by us when we had it installed so it is not an outstanding bill. Original when the land was purchased as a whole by my in laws, the half where our house sits was to have been sold to us, however after we had our home put here, my brother in law then decided not to sell to us, we were told we could stay as long as we liked rent free providing we help maintain the property. As of now in accordance with their divorce agreement the property is to be sold or auctioned we don't know which. My inlaws have a house on the property, so my husband and I cannot afford to purchase the whole tract.
There was not security deposit involved.

 

[djdj]

I would contact the lawyers for both sides and tell them you wish to buy the property and to get an appraisal on it, then see if they will agree to sell it to you,

I dont see why they wouldnt, a quick sale at the market rate, no expenses etc... it would be really stupid for the lawyers not to agree to sell it to you.

So have you gone to the bank first and see if you would qualify for a loan?

 

[lw100]

Getting the loan would not be the problem. Our problem is my brother in law will not willingly sell to us, basically I was wondering if we could force his hand by possible asking for reimbursement for the improvements we have done including installing the septic system which we cannot take with us, since these improvements have increased the value of the property.