[noam]

I am renting the front house of a property in CALIF, that also has a guesthouse rented by other people. The property has been purchased by a new landlord.

As I understand from the sell procedures, the new owner acknowledged the original lease during the purchase period, but now he is breaking the conditions and wants to re-write a new lease agreement with only HIS conditions.

The original lease with the old owner states that the rental fee will stay the same for the second year, that NO PETS are allowed in the swimming pool area, the gardener and pool man fees will be paid be the owner.

The original rental agreement is from Jan 15/09 – Jan 15/10.

Since then the house has been sold through a band auction and a couple of month later its been sold again via regular sell procedure.

The new owner has tried to raise the rent and also has rented the guesthouse to a couple that has 2 dogs in the swimming pool area.

My question is this:

If the new property owner accepted the original lease conditions during the sell, how can he break them by trying to raise the rent and allow the new guesthouse tenants keep 2 dogs in the shared swimming pool area? Also, after talking to him about the raised rent issue, he said he will keep it the same but will stop the gardening responsibility. He also claims that he does not accept the original rental agreement.

I feel like I am being shorthanded and exploited.

Please provide your advice.

Thank you,
Noa

[AK lawyer]

Your lease term was over January 15th? Did it include an option to extend for an additional year?

The prohibition of dogs in the pool area was probably a restriction upon you, and not a promise that the other tenants would be similarly restricted.

I am not sure that you can enforce his statement that he would honor the lease. What was the consideration from you? Did you extend based upon this representation?

[Fr_Chuck]

The owner has to accept the current lease when he buys, he does not have to renew the lease