California couple still can’t move into their new Home a year after buying it. (from foxla)
California TV station Fox11 reports that a local couple, Tracie Albert and Myles Albert, bought a 4-bedroom single-Family home in California last January, but the previous owners took advantage of the “Eviction Moratorium” (Eviction The couple’s real estate agent, Taylor (who is also the owner of the home), has not yet handed over the house to them.
The couple’s realtor, Chris Taylor, said the former owner wanted to get rid of the house immediately: “He called me on Sunday and said he wanted to sell the house for $560,000 (about $15.98 million) within two weeks. Unless the buyer is paying cash, there’s usually no way to get it done in such a short Time.”
Myers recalls that they did their best to raise the money: “We scraped together our Life savings, plus borrowed money, to reach that goal.”
The couple discovered during the performance bond period that the house had a $30,000 real estate lien for unpaid taxes, delaying the delivery process, and the couple ended up closing the deal weeks before the government issued a city closure and other measures, including a ban on eviction, but the former owners still argued that they could not move out of their home under the terms of the decree. California recently extended the eviction order until June 30, 2021, leaving the couple and the real estate agent at their wits’ end.
Attorney Dennis Block said they have handled at least seven similar cases in the past year alone, reminding people to be extra cautious if they see any red flags when buying a home. Stressing that the misfortune that befell the couple could happen to anyone: “The person who refuses to move out of real estate is not the tenant, but the former homeowner, who enjoys the money transferred to his account and exploits a legal loophole to not move out of a house he doesn’t own.”
The couple filed for a tenant eviction order, but the case was put on hold due to California’s eviction moratorium.
Tracy mentioned that she had tried to water the lawn and the former owner came out and destroyed her sprinkler heads and electrical cords: “The palm trees are dying, everything was beautiful and now it’s all going to be ruined.”
Myers, on the other hand, pointed out in despair that they had sought legal recourse several times, but the lawyer told them that this problem would not have happened in other states, “but because that’s what California law says, there’s nothing we can do to help you even if we wanted to.”
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