They want to bulldoze my home!!!

[MrColin]

I'm currently renting a home that is perfectly suited for my needs at this time and for the next 12 months while I'm in school. My landlord informed me that the owner of the property next door has made an offer to buy the place and has plans to 'doze it and put up a 12 unit apartment building. This is contingent on the outcome of a zoning meeting next monday. My landlord said he will sell for a decent offer. The prospective buyer told me he plans to level the place in june of this year.

I don't want to move before I'm done with school. It would be very difficult to find a new affordable place that will let me keep my 2 dogs and 5 cats. Also, I can currently see the building where most of my classes are from my front porch.

My questions are these:
Is there any way to stall or block the rezoning process to draw this out any longer?

Is it possible in NC to have a lease signed by my current landlord that would have to be honored by the new owner?

Link to Zoning Agenda - see item F

edit: changed seller to buyer in last sentence of first paragraph

 

[StageLeft]

Your lease agreement would probably determine if you have any rights to say no-dozing or not. Does it mention it? I'd assume that many leases have a clause that the rentee can terminate for any reason with reasonable notice.

 

[TC2181]

Tie yourself to the building.

 

[Aharami]

sounds like u should talk to a lawyer

 

[K1052]

Is there any way to stall or block the rezoning process to draw this out any longer?

Blackmail/bribe the zoning board?

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: TC2181
Tie yourself to the building.

 

[Bootprint]

That sucks.



Let me know if someone Name Ford Prefect comes to see you about going to a bar, please.

 

[nebula]

Yikes! 2 dogs and 5 cats, the place is probably due to be dozed anyway. j/k

 

[Ameesh]

sounds like you are 0wn3d, wtf are you doing 2 dogs and 5 cats while your in college?

 

[Rufio]

u screwed.

 

[Yaotl]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
That sucks.



Let me know if someone Name Ford Prefect comes to see you about going to a bar, please.

aye, and remember to avoid the flying brick and to lay down in front of the bulldozer until he arrives.

 

[ATLien247]

Originally posted by: Yaotl

Originally posted by: Bootprint
That sucks.



Let me know if someone Name Ford Prefect comes to see you about going to a bar, please.

aye, and remember to avoid the flying brick and to lay down in front of the bulldozer until he arrives.

And don't forget your towel...

 

[Jzero]

Glad I'm not the only HG geek.

 

[johnjosh]

well u can stall it but it will cost you alot of money that u don't have. You can hire a lawyer and sue to have it stopped but again as you are in college don't think you will be able to afford it unless u find some new lawyer just passed his bar exam and is looking for expirence/referrence. good luck.

 

[ISAslot]

1. Make secret deal with the landlord.

2. Leave pets in house.

3. Torch house.

4. Split insurance money with landlord.

5. Rent a nicer place with money.

6. Get arrested.

7. Go to prison.

8. Get your housing and education payed for by the Government.

9. Work your way up in the prison system as the top bad guy of organized crime.

10. Get out of prison.

11. Buy a manson.

12. Retire from crime and change your name.

13. Do 2 chicks at once.

 

[OutHouse]

dude there is nothing you can do about rezoning, you are a renter of a plat of land. The zoning comission will turn a deaf ear to you.

 

[RU482]

Originally posted by: ISAslot
1. Make secret deal with the landlord.

2. Leave pets in house.

3. Torch house.

4. Split insurance money with landlord.

5. Rent a nicer place with money.

6. Get arrested.

7. Go to prison.

8. Get your housing and education payed for by the Government.

9. Work your way up in the prison system as the top bad guy of organized crime.

10. Get out of prison.

11. Buy a manson.

12. Retire from crime and change your name.

13. Do 2 chicks at once.

Oh wow...I mean, WOW, that takes the cake kids

 

[waggy]

Not much you can do. You are a renter not a landowner. all they have to do is wait until the lease is up and NOT renew it. Though if they want to throw you out BEFORE the end of the lease then maybe you can complain.

otherwise you are SOL and rightfully so. the landlord has the right to sale the property any time he wants regardless of you.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

What college student has 2 dogs and 5 cats? Probably one who can't get real pussy or bitches I guess...

 

[Nutdotnet]

Look carefully over your lease.

As far as I know the rentee can only terminate a lease for non-payment or something along those lines.

The lease is an agreement between you and the landlord. It DOES give you rights.

Find out the neccessary information and then speak with the current landlord.

I think the lease should be good until it ends.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: ATLien247

Originally posted by: Yaotl

Originally posted by: Bootprint
That sucks.



Let me know if someone Name Ford Prefect comes to see you about going to a bar, please.

aye, and remember to avoid the flying brick and to lay down in front of the bulldozer until he arrives.

And don't forget your towel...

Wanna get high?

 

[Ornery]

Get the local people to picket the board meeting and make a fuss. Squawk about how there's already too much riffraff and crime from the current multi-family zoned areas... no, wait... :Q

 

[ClueLis]

Meh, I really isn't important, as the Vogons are coming to destroy earth to make way for an interstellar bypass.

 

[MrColin]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Get the local people to picket the board meeting and make a fuss. Squawk about how there's already too much riffraff and crime from the current multi-family zoned areas... no, wait... :Q

Yes this is my first strategy. There are some owners on my block who may actually care about student-ghetto type development on this block. There's a goodly number of tree hugger ordinances in this town too. Perhaps I can persuade some bureaucrat to stall the rezoning until an environmental impact study can be performed.

My landlord is in no real hurry to get rid of the place, but it is a shack with weeds growing out of the rain gutters, leaking roof, etc. Its over 120 years old too so a counter offer isn't really very realistic.

Blackmail/bribe the zoning board?

There are nine on the committee, and 5 is a quorum. If I can intimidate 4 to not show how much do I need to buy at least 3 of the remaining committee members?

 

[MrColin]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
What college student has 2 dogs and 5 cats? Probably one who can't get real pussy or bitches I guess...

I'm a returning student and I acquired the pets while working in various vet clinics and animal shelters. I live w/ MsColin but thanks for the concern...