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I live in New York city. My unique situation is this: I'm a month-to-month tenant. I have rent receipts. My landlord told my mother that he was thinking of selling the building we're living in in July. The "prospective buyers" came.
And the funny thing about that was that our current landlord wanted both my mother and myself out of the way. Was that so he could show the building as "vacant"? The assessor came.
We heard nothing form either our landlord or the "prospective buyers" for nearly two months.
I was doing some house hold chores yesterday, and I saw two young gentlemen go up our front stairs.
They were clearly not from my neighborhood, so I went outside to investigate.
They were from a land surveying company.
They wanted to measure the building, "to make sure we're not encroaching on property lines."
I took their business card.
I called the number, and was referred to another number.
Turns out that the building I live in WAS sold, without anyone telling us, and closing is in two weeks.
What happens now? I have no family, no money and I'm temporarily on public assistance. I'm on the "waiting list" for public housing, but the list is 3 years long.
HELP! I don't want to be homeless and no one seems to know the answer:
What if I'm paying my rent, but the landlord sells the building? What are my rights? What can the "new Landlord" to us, or/and with us?