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by treeman79 2155 days ago
We were renting a house, and the land lord was playing games with mortgage. We kept getting notifications, It was insanely stressful.

One day the sheriff and bank came to “evict us” they were shocked to find the house was being rented out. Since we had lease, they couldn’t evict us. But still.

We ended up moving out a couple weeks later anyway. Bank paid us a good amount to leave. We were happy to get away from it all.

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Shortly after 2008 I had a similar experience, land lord kept hounding me for rent (poor college student) and one day I get a Bank of America representative asking where my landlord was. He informed me the house was in foreclosure and told me to stop paying rent. This was thankfully after Obama signed the act to prevent evictions for renters.

Out of the wood work my landlord comes threatening eviction if I don't pay rent, he lived on the other side of the country so I wasn't really concerned. Got 3 more months of rent free living in a brand new house...