However, in order to initiate a "rent strike" and not pay rent, at least in Texas, there are specific notification and response windows that have to be met (by the tenant) and failed (by the landlord) before the tenant can take any of this action.If you have your requests and invoices for the efforts to remedy the situations, if the issues named were never reported, and If the report appears retaliatory in intent, you're probably in good shape.

Failing that, make sure you get some kind of physical address.

I can't count how many failed flips/inherited properties I've bought or wholesaled that your criteria would have cut out.

So many of these communities are aging and even failing.

You absolutely should contact a local Real Estate attorney to discuss what options you have to cure any deficiency on the title, and what remedies you may have against the Title Company for failing to properly close on the property.

Since the bank failed to maintain the property and allowed low income families to occupy this once luxury property.

I would then demand that money and if she fails to produce it I would sue her. 

Hi Shannon, He was living with his father who is elderly but his name was not on any of the transaction or escrow paper work.Also I spoke with another real estate attorney he mentioned, since this sale was a done by one agent (I had to use the sellers agent ) The realtor has failed to do her Fiduciary Duty in protecting the rights of the sellers' which in this case my wife and I.

I have no idea why that would be, but they never fail to surprise me.

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