Divorce- Refusing to rent a commercial building

[Raul Ruvalcaba]

Hello,

Although this forum discusses success stories of investing, I bet there are some with a bad side to it. That's way I seek advice to this issue. 

My mother and stepfather have a rental building. When the court gave control of the property to my stepfather, the tenant left the building and he never rented the building again. He claims the property was not rentable due to its conditions. However, throughout those years, we were never granted access to the property. Now 3 years have passed. We got control of the property once the back apartments burned down. But now... the building is totally not in rentable conditions. 

Has anyone ever been through something like this? Is it possible to recover loss rent and damages for the burned building? 

Thank you 

Raul

[Colton S.]

@Raul Ruvalcaba, I'm not sure i fully understand. Your step father was given access to the property but both parties still had shared interest in the property? Why would you mother have financial interest in the property if your step father had control of it? It seems she would have been given a settlement of some type to give your step father control.

If there was shared interest, why didn't your mother have access to the property? I understand your step father had control, but i would assume with shared financial interest they would both have access to the property equally.