Dream house in limbo after seller refuses to leave

When Tracie and Myles Albert purchased a beautiful four bedroom house in Riverside, California they never realized that at the end of escrow the seller would suddenly refuse to give up the keys and leave.

[albeit]

This is fraud, plain and simple.

He should do prison time.

[tourmii]

This isn’t evicting tho. They legally bought it from him. It was a scam, fraud.

[danor]

Turn off the water main, and the gas main. Put locks on them. Pull the power meter. I never in my life would have sold my house and not leave. A 30, 000 tax lien on the property means he was going to lose it. They saved his butt, and he planned this all along.

[tampapropertygirl]

For anyone selling their home, put in your contract that seller must vacate BEFORE close of escrow. Be sure to check before money is transferred. This is common place in Florida, while in California the seller usually has 3-5 days to move after COE. Protect yourself and good luck!

[skeetersaurus]

Stop treating it as an 'eviction'...he sold the home, he is trespassing! Trespass him, sign a TRO, AND SUE HIM FOR DAMAGES AND LOSS!

[listenquitely]

Sue them for the money back and if there are damages, Sue them again. This is a criminal.

[ty]

The seller is lucky he’s dealing with nice people, some people would’ve done worst to him by now, just disgusting

[Drewzker]

They probably trashed the inside of the house as well.

[wildergarcia]

I feel sorry for the couple, no one should face this situation. The previous owner is rotten to the core. He got his money for the house and now he is living for free.

[chrissmith]

You can thank the leaders in CA, I see squatters breaking into homes and people not being able to get them out and they are protected. Its awful, these people should be arrested and sent to prison.

[JoeTchify]

I’m confused. If the guy sold the house and wouldn’t leave, isn’t that stealing? So wouldn’t he need to be arrested? So why aren’t the cops doing anything if this is the case. Weird...

[simplenv]

I don’t like violence and don’t like illegal things but this is outrageous. I don’t like what is happening to this family. They are playing dirty so I’d say get dirty. 😳

[dianecelento]

So if you steel $560, 000 from a bank, you go to jail. But if you steel from the people who bought your house, that's fine. Only in America

[Smokeylucas]

I think they should have sued for fraud along time ago and have the house reinstated back to him so he would be liable to pay mortgage. Have all expenses at closing returned back to them.

[lyndagruen]

Recently, we were house hunting and found a nice home to look at in our preferred neighborhood. The pictures online represented the property as vacant - move-in ready. We went to look at the home, and came to find out that the seller had tenants in it - with a dog. The seller claimed the tenants would be out by the end of the month. Needless to say, we walked. Especially with the rent moratorium, there was no way we were deliberately going to risk ending up with a non-paying tenant.

[EugeniaHernandez-dedf]

Realtor should have stopped the closing if he had done a final walk-through.

[Natashea]

No one could stop me from breaking that door down. If he won’t move out we are living together PERIOD

[Lifeafter]

I think the realtor and the title place should be investigated. If he didn't deliver the house and keys. The money shouldn't have transferred to him. Plain and simple you guys should start suing all the previous owner, the agent, the title company for cost, rent, and damages. Hire a good real estate attorney.

[davidveliz]

The final clip of the owners of the house trying to knock. Is gold.

[sierria]

I bought my home and had a rentback contract. the sellers tried to stay after the 30 days we gave them. I acted quickly. the sellers started to tell their realtor that they needed more time, they got 575, 000 at close so we knew this was a scam. the sellers were approached to remind them of contract, they started acting like they had no idea what we were talking about. they said - O the people we are buying from have not bought a house so they need more time-- they even tried to offer money - they would have been a rental contract and they would have been able to stay .. renters rights and moratorium . So i contacted my lawyer, We went after them for breech of contact...since they were still there on the 1st the judge gave us 5800.00 and damages + lawyers fees .. we had rented out our condo and were loosing money... he said this was an attempt to stay due to the fact that the received soo much from sale. judge said - in what way are u being disenfranchised u have 575, 000 cash. then he added on an additional 2200.00 he was made he said they were running a scam.