[dhs13]

Under Ohio law, who is a landlord?

Or is a landlord, "the owner of the real property", the "general partnership", "the general partnership of a limited partership" or when there is no general partner of a limited partnership?

Thanks

[Fr_Chuck]

Yes and more, a leasor who subleases their property is the landlord to the person they are subleasing to, and then also the leasee to the person they rent from.

You can even get it deeper, lets say that a corporaton owns a groups of buildings, but a company subleases one apartment building, to rent out for a profit. They in turn hire a management company to control the property, they lease a large unit that has a business space and a housing unit to renter A, who uses the business part but subleases the living area to renter B who does not need the two bedrooms and they sublease to renter C

Renter C only has a legal contract and obligation to Renter B
So each of the people renting is the "landlord" to the person they are renting to, but have many have no legal relatonshiop to the actual owner of the property and in many cases don't even know who the owner is.

[dhs13]

I should add the following and see if it changes your answer:

The owner of the property as defined by the local tax authority is a "limited partnership". The gerneral partner "withdraw". The Secretary of State in Ohio has no record of a new general partner.

So who is now the landlord etc.

I am going to presume that since the general partner withdraw, the agent also changed and was never replaced.

Then add this: the doing business as or fictitious was never registered in the State of Ohio

Thanks

[ScottGem]

The landlord is the entity that signed the lease as the leasor.

[Cvillecpm]

The LANDLORD is whoever is authorized to act as a landlord - the general partner of a limited partnership; the holder of interest under a master lease.

[Fr_Chuck]

The owner of the proerty is not defined by the tax authority, the person listed on the tax records is the person who is suppose to be listed on the deed of trust and/or title at the register of deeds.

So if you wish to know the legal owner of the property, you need to check the register of deeds.

If this is done though a partnership and the peoples names are listed on the deed, they are both stll owners until one is taken off the deed though alegal contract to do so.

Next if the property is owned by a partnership in the form of a DBA name. The partner has withdrawn and there is a legal agreement between the two partners of such, the remaining partner would have taken over legal responibility

And from a legal standpoint, if a registered agent with the state, normally from the states view point, the one listed is the legal one until replaced.

If you would explain what this is about,

But from a pure legal standpoint, who ever is listed in the lease as the leasor or landlord is the landlord.

[landlord advocate]

If you could give us a few more details, it would be helpful. If the property has a value more than $3 million and money was borrowed, details are probably not in Ohio, but in Delaware and only qualified in Ohio.