All Forum Posts by: Jimmy S.

Hi,

Long story short is I am allowing my neighbor to connect to my sewer line which I installed when I built a new home and was forced to put connections in for the other 2 neighbors since they both have a septic and I have public sewer.(I am responsible for maintenance for the entire line) Anyways the one neighbor wants to connect and we agreed on a price and got township approval and the township will take over responsibly for the line since it will be a public line then. The original agreement I made with the neighbor is I would receive payment when I sign the document allowing them to connect and they pay all fees involved. I do not have an attorney and his attorney I have been talking to through out this process seemed ok. Now its time to sign the paperwork and he slipped in that payment is to be made after the construction and connection is made saying if they are unable to connect they are not paying me.  I told them no and want payment upfront as I am no longer involved and they will deal with the township. They are talking now about mabay a escrow account but his attorney and him are friends.

What would you do? 

Trust them and  go with the escrow?
Stand firm and get payment upfront?
Or get an attorney and make them pay my attorney fees since they changed the agreement?

Township said try to get money upfront. They will give him a permit after I sign the document. Im sick of this as his lawyer is contacting me and getting rude with me now since I wont sign it and they changed the terms at the end about when payment is made. Township really dont know whats going on either as they said its in the township lawyers hands. I never signed anything yet or even the original agreement I just type to show what I wanted. They would be paying me $4000 for the connection after beating me down on price and giving me hardship story.

I dont have to let them connection township said. There septic is shot and will cost them alot more if they need to install a sand mound.

its vacant land. No pictures were on the mls. They are NOT selling it to me as the seller, not the agent is not the actually owner.

So a piece of land hit the mls at a good price. My agent called and got the scoop. Put in a offer and it was accepted all within 24hrs. The listing agent came back and said it was a scam and they in fact dont own the property. Seller never signed my offer but was verbally acccpeted. The contract for the seller to put it on the mls was signed but was a scam. (guess they docu signed it) Any one run into this before? How did the listing agent not meet with the seller or verify they are the owner before putting it on the mls?  I never ran into this before and been in real estate for about 12 years buying and selling.

 The bank still wont loan me anything even if I put 20 or 30% down. They wont even loan me $1,000

Any one have any ideas of how can I get a loan? My DTI is my biggest and only problem. My credit score is 800+ and that mean nothing. I have 3 rentals and own my own home. My only debts are from my rental properties. They come to around $3500 a month total and my parents live 1 so I dont charge them rent, I just show a loss. I am self employed also. I only show about making $25,000 a year after all my deductions. I have 1 rental I paid off a few years ago and wish I never used all my cash now that the bank wont even let me take it out since they say I cant afford to pay it back. I have tried about 5 different banks but all say my dti is the problem.
 
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

I could always take it out of there security when they move if they dont pay it. Every time I call the gas company its always like a 20 to 30 min wait time too.  I requested a cashiers check when they moved in so im sure thats good. Did anyone ever hear of needing a duplicate SS card to put the utilities in your name? Sounds like BS to me. Lease states they are responsible for the utilities. 

Got a new tenant and moved in on the 1st. They have gas heat and hot water. I called UGI, the gas company and they did not put the gas in there name yet. I called my tenant and they said UGI needs a duplicate of there social security card in order to put it in there name and will take 1 or 2 week yet. Guessing the bill for 3 weeks will be around $150 to $200 here in winter which im stuck paying.

I have been paying to heat the house in winter since its still in my name. The gas company said if I remove it from my name they will come out and shut it off since it will be in no ones name then. Can they shut if off in winter or should I just forward the bill to the tenant when I get it? They did put the electric in there name.  Just seems odd they cant put gas in there name without a duplicate of there SS Card.  Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks