What is the name of your state? Kansas.
I am currently on a month to month lease with a new owner in a commercial building owned by an out of town owner with a local landlady overseeing everything. The building we are in has 3 business units with 4 apartments above. The whole building is run off of one broiler heating unit in the basement that heats the whole thing. At the beginning of December it got cold and this heater did not kick on. The landlady contacted the owner about getting repairs done and he would not return calls to her for a week. Finally he told her to get a repairman in there and that if the repairs were going to be expensive he was going to give us a thirty day notice and sell the building.
The repairman showed and gave a $700.00 estimate. Our landlady has since been trying to contact the owner about paying to get the repair done. This has been ongoing now for two and half weeks and he will not return her calls or e-mails. We have since bought a space heater to continue running our business and to prevent the pipes from freezing/bursting and damaging our property inside. We have also been leaving the water on a drip (he pays the water bill) to hopefully prevent freezing pipes. The building is now for sale, we never have been given thirty day notice and are currntly moving our business and leaving this whole mess behind. My questions are:
1. Are we able to sue our owner for the paid rent in December because he failed to supply heat as stated in our lease?
2. Are we able to sue him for the additional costs incurred on our electric bill due to running our space heater 24/7 ?
3. Are we able to sue our new owner for a deposit paid to our old owner prior to his selling the building to this yahoo?
I am currently on a month to month lease with a new owner in a commercial building owned by an out of town owner with a local landlady overseeing everything. The building we are in has 3 business units with 4 apartments above. The whole building is run off of one broiler heating unit in the basement that heats the whole thing. At the beginning of December it got cold and this heater did not kick on. The landlady contacted the owner about getting repairs done and he would not return calls to her for a week. Finally he told her to get a repairman in there and that if the repairs were going to be expensive he was going to give us a thirty day notice and sell the building.
The repairman showed and gave a $700.00 estimate. Our landlady has since been trying to contact the owner about paying to get the repair done. This has been ongoing now for two and half weeks and he will not return her calls or e-mails. We have since bought a space heater to continue running our business and to prevent the pipes from freezing/bursting and damaging our property inside. We have also been leaving the water on a drip (he pays the water bill) to hopefully prevent freezing pipes. The building is now for sale, we never have been given thirty day notice and are currntly moving our business and leaving this whole mess behind. My questions are:
1. Are we able to sue our owner for the paid rent in December because he failed to supply heat as stated in our lease?
2. Are we able to sue him for the additional costs incurred on our electric bill due to running our space heater 24/7 ?
3. Are we able to sue our new owner for a deposit paid to our old owner prior to his selling the building to this yahoo?