Landlord troubles

[rach09]

My grandma is currently in the process of selling her real estate business but there is no signed papers or any money transfer. she just signed a 2 year lease for the building for her business. the guy who wants to buy her business contacted her landlord and together they wrote up, signed, and notarized a lease to start as of November 1st 2008. They never talked about how my grandma was to get out of her lease. Is what the landlord did legal? he currently has two leases under two business names to the same property, who is then responsible for the rent? PLEASE HELP

 

[Gail_in_Georgia]

A landlord cannot "double dip", i.e., get the total amount of rent from two different people.

Your grandma needs to talk to the landlord about getting written documentation that this new lease with the new business owner now negates her lease and her financial responsibility. Written documentation would be very useful should anything come up in the future about this.

Gail

 

[rach09]

The thing is is she has not sold her business to the guy therefore why should she need to sign her lease over to the new guy since the sell may not even happen. i just wanted to know if it was legal what he did i can't find the laws about this sort of thing anywhere

 

[Gail_in_Georgia]

It would appear that the person who wants to purchase your Grandmothers business told the landlord that this was a done deal.

Gail