I am an adult child living in an in-law suite/basment apartment with my husband and daughter in my fathers house. We have lived here going on 3 years now. We moved in after making a verbal agreement with my father that we would be responsable for repaying the loan that was taken out to remodel the basment so we could move into the house. At the time the verbal arrangment was made it was also said by my father that he would not make us pay anything towards the increase in the utility bills.
We began repayment of the loan aproximatly 3-4 months before even moving into the residence and all the work done to the basment of the house was contracted out and paid for by my husband and myself! We have also dropped thousands of dollars over the years in fixing up and renovating things here and there around the property all with the intention of someday owning what was promised to us which was ultimatly the house!
Now being as how all these agreements, promises, and commitments were made with my father, my flesh and blood, I did not think i would need to have a contract drawn up, or have to sign anything stating that this is what we talked about, this is what we agreed upon, and this is the deal we have so on and so on. I was dead wrong!
I woke up yesterday morning to find a court order taped to my door from my father for falire to pay rent and complaint for repossesion of property! It states that we are behind in our rent and we owe him a ton of money I wasnt aware we owed him?
We do owe him some money though and some of it is for the repayment of the loan but it is definitly not close to the amount he claims we owe for "rent"! Regardless of that, my husband went to him about 2 months ago to discuss that we were gonna be unable to make the loan payment for at least the next month and possibly the one for the followinng month as well and cold he make the payments till we could catch up and he agreed with out any resistance! He was also informed at this time that we did not expect to get him paid off until around June when we would be receiving our taxes back
I dont understand how he can file for faliure to pay rent without any kind of rent ever being owed, or any kind of document, contract, or lease stating that I agreed to pay such and such an amount on this day of the month? Not to mention how can he prove that I never paid him anyway considering the exchange of the loan payment is always cash and no recipts are ever given?
After all my hard work, sweat, tears and blood my husband and I have put into this place over the course of three years, im being put out of my childdhood home by the very man who helped in creating me for, reasons unclear to me still at this time! I am in total disbelief at the moment over this hole situation but I still need advice and help... PLEASE! I need to know if my family and I have any rights and how I mite legally be able to proceed with the best possible chance of keepmg our home and belongings?
Im also curious to know how he can evict us on grounds of non payment of rent when there was never actually an exchange of money that was classified as "rent" between us as well as never having any kind of writing contract stating we pay "rent" on this day of every month in this amount or anything else for that matter?
We began repayment of the loan aproximatly 3-4 months before even moving into the residence and all the work done to the basment of the house was contracted out and paid for by my husband and myself! We have also dropped thousands of dollars over the years in fixing up and renovating things here and there around the property all with the intention of someday owning what was promised to us which was ultimatly the house!
Now being as how all these agreements, promises, and commitments were made with my father, my flesh and blood, I did not think i would need to have a contract drawn up, or have to sign anything stating that this is what we talked about, this is what we agreed upon, and this is the deal we have so on and so on. I was dead wrong!
I woke up yesterday morning to find a court order taped to my door from my father for falire to pay rent and complaint for repossesion of property! It states that we are behind in our rent and we owe him a ton of money I wasnt aware we owed him?
We do owe him some money though and some of it is for the repayment of the loan but it is definitly not close to the amount he claims we owe for "rent"! Regardless of that, my husband went to him about 2 months ago to discuss that we were gonna be unable to make the loan payment for at least the next month and possibly the one for the followinng month as well and cold he make the payments till we could catch up and he agreed with out any resistance! He was also informed at this time that we did not expect to get him paid off until around June when we would be receiving our taxes back
I dont understand how he can file for faliure to pay rent without any kind of rent ever being owed, or any kind of document, contract, or lease stating that I agreed to pay such and such an amount on this day of the month? Not to mention how can he prove that I never paid him anyway considering the exchange of the loan payment is always cash and no recipts are ever given?
After all my hard work, sweat, tears and blood my husband and I have put into this place over the course of three years, im being put out of my childdhood home by the very man who helped in creating me for, reasons unclear to me still at this time! I am in total disbelief at the moment over this hole situation but I still need advice and help... PLEASE! I need to know if my family and I have any rights and how I mite legally be able to proceed with the best possible chance of keepmg our home and belongings?
Im also curious to know how he can evict us on grounds of non payment of rent when there was never actually an exchange of money that was classified as "rent" between us as well as never having any kind of writing contract stating we pay "rent" on this day of every month in this amount or anything else for that matter?