I am a little skeptical about it

[EmilyH87]

None of this you have described sounds like a good idea.

[Murdoc's Mistress]

Gonna echo everyone else.

HELL

NO

Document shit with your current landlord. Start busting his balls to fix things. And look into FHA loans. There are even some that will help cover down payment. Buy a nice little house. Don't keep getting trapped in slums, dude.

[Deleted User 1393]

Sounds like a scam. RUN

[Anonymous 4]

Whatever is going on with the place you are currently renting, I hope you are still paying your rent as required. If you aren't, he's going to be reporting that each time someone calls for a reference on you.

The utilities being off now worry me. Why aren’t they on and in the owners name?

Is there a reason the landlord is giving you a bad reference? He is in business to make money so I can’t see him risking you not paying the rent by doing this and then enduring an eviction proceeding...

So if I were you Inwould attempt rent with a company and not a private person. When we rented we never had one call for a reference ever!

We've been trying to move for months. My landlord keeps screwing us up. We can't move. Every place we try to get our landlord keeps screwing us. He keeps giving us bad references. He is doing this to keep us from moving.

We saw an ad for a double wide mobile home. FS, as is. It is a 1997. We've done a walk through twice. It needs a little work but nothing major. $1700 down and $344 a month for 48 months. $75 is lot rent. It wasn't the route we wanted to go but at this point it all we can do. At this point if we dont do this we're going to be stuck in this shit hole for years to come.. we have about $10k saved up. So we really dont have enough saved up to buy anything else. $10k isn't a lot of money.

We called her I am supposed to meet her tomorrow at 5pm. I am supposed to give her the money and she is supposed to take the cash to her attorney to sign the contract. I want to get the utilities turned on Tuesday. If I dont do it Tuesday I want be able to do it until March the 4th. I want to do it Tuesday so we can get in it next weekend and start making repairs before we move in it. She also doesn't know anything about the mobile home. She doesn't know if the central heat and air unit works, if the water heater works. Also she says we can't turn the utilities on until the contract is signed by her attorney.

My dh wants to do it. I sorta do but I am also little skeptical. I am worried we are getting ourselves in a money pit. It is always a risk to do a rent to own type of deal. What will be Paying a month is less than half of what we pay now. The repairs we will have to make will take a days worth if work. There are other repairs that will need to be done but they can be done once we move it.

Any advice at this point. I have never done Anything like this so I don't know what all we should do.

He doesn't want is to move. This house has a lot of problems that he refuses to fix. If we move he'll have to fix everything in order to rent it out again. Some of the issues have been like this for over a year. He has kept promising to fix it but hasn't. We started trying to move last summer. The rental companies is what were having the problem with. The only other private person I found his house was worse than this one..it was disgusting.

[Anonymous 1]

If you move to this place you are an idiot, sorry.

You have already stayed somewhere you could have gotten out of easily! You should have sent him a certified letter when he first refused to fix the problem. You should have then advised him you were putting the rent $$ into escrow until it was fixed. Then his referral would have been null—though I hardly believe with proof of paid rent, and prior rental history that NO ONE would rent to you. With only your story I don’t believe it.

At any rate, if you continue t refuse to do your due dilligence, in a month you will be back with a sob story about a 42 year old mobile home that is a fire trap at best....

The utilities being off now worry me. Why aren’t they on and in the owners name?

Is there a reason the landlord is giving you a bad reference? He is in business to make money so I can’t see him risking you not paying the rent by doing this and then enduring an eviction proceeding...

So if I were you Inwould attempt rent with a company and not a private person. When we rented we never had one call for a reference ever!

He doesn't want is to move. This house has a lot of problems that he refuses to fix. If we move he'll have to fix everything in order to rent it out again. Some of the issues have been like this for over a year. He has kept promising to fix it but hasn't. We started trying to move last summer. The rental companies is what were having the problem with. The only other private person I found his house was worse than this one..it was disgusting.

After the references he is giving us the rental companies won't even talk to us other than telling us that they cant rent to us due to the bad reference.

[Anonymous 1]

Whatever is going on with the place you are currently renting, I hope you are still paying your rent as required. If you aren't, he's going to be reporting that each time someone calls for a reference on you.

The utilities being off now worry me. Why aren’t they on and in the owners name?

Is there a reason the landlord is giving you a bad reference? He is in business to make money so I can’t see him risking you not paying the rent by doing this and then enduring an eviction proceeding...

So if I were you Inwould attempt rent with a company and not a private person. When we rented we never had one call for a reference ever!

He doesn't want is to move. This house has a lot of problems that he refuses to fix. If we move he'll have to fix everything in order to rent it out again. Some of the issues have been like this for over a year. He has kept promising to fix it but hasn't. We started trying to move last summer. The rental companies is what were having the problem with. The only other private person I found his house was worse than this one..it was disgusting.

We're paying the rent that is why I want to be put by the 1st of the month

[Anonymous 5]

No way in hell would I get myself into that.

Not me either and I've been desperate. Talk to a rental agent or a real estate agent like everyone else is suggesting. Also a banker. You might be able to get help if you're a first time home buyer.

I've been talking to my dh. I'm not paying cash. I'll get a cashier check and I'm not giving her anything without a key and something showing we gave her money so I can turn the power on. But I still have a really bad feeling about this place.

I hope you realize that if you pay her cashier check, you are still going to be out the money. This is not a good idea, and you are not going to have a safe place to live or recover your money, no matter what form you hand it over in.

[Msprekteacher]

I’m sorry, I don’t buy it. Again, you explain to the potential land lord EXACTLY what you’ve been dealing with. You show them rental receipts. You offer OTHRR references. We rented a lot when hubby was military and after until
Finally buying a home—so please stop trying so hard!

If you move to this place you are an idiot, sorry.

You have already stayed somewhere you could have gotten out of easily! You should have sent him a certified letter when he first refused to fix the problem. You should have then advised him you were putting the rent $$ into escrow until it was fixed. Then his referral would have been null—though I hardly believe with proof of paid rent, and prior rental history that NO ONE would rent to you. With only your story I don’t believe it.

At any rate, if you continue t refuse to do your due dilligence, in a month you will be back with a sob story about a 42 year old mobile home that is a fire trap at best....

He doesn't want is to move. This house has a lot of problems that he refuses to fix. If we move he'll have to fix everything in order to rent it out again. Some of the issues have been like this for over a year. He has kept promising to fix it but hasn't. We started trying to move last summer. The rental companies is what were having the problem with. The only other private person I found his house was worse than this one..it was disgusting.

After the references he is giving us the rental companies won't even talk to us other than telling us that they cant rent to us due to the bad reference.

[Anonymous 4]

You continue to say that you STILL "have a bad feeling about this."

Why would you insist on going forward with something that you have such a bad feeling about?

I'm with the other poster who said that if you go through with this, a month from now we'll be hearing about how you got ripped off, lost $10K, and can't even reside in the place. What needs to happen to wake you up?

No way in hell would I get myself into that.

Not me either and I've been desperate. Talk to a rental agent or a real estate agent like everyone else is suggesting. Also a banker. You might be able to get help if you're a first time home buyer.

I've been talking to my dh. I'm not paying cash. I'll get a cashier check and I'm not giving her anything without a key and something showing we gave her money so I can turn the power on. But I still have a really bad feeling about this place.

[Anonymous 4]

What is he saying about you?

Whatever is going on with the place you are currently renting, I hope you are still paying your rent as required. If you aren't, he's going to be reporting that each time someone calls for a reference on you.

He doesn't want is to move. This house has a lot of problems that he refuses to fix. If we move he'll have to fix everything in order to rent it out again. Some of the issues have been like this for over a year. He has kept promising to fix it but hasn't. We started trying to move last summer. The rental companies is what were having the problem with. The only other private person I found his house was worse than this one..it was disgusting.

We're paying the rent that is why I want to be put by the 1st of the month