Lee County resident looks for help
To the editor:
I will be a proud renter in Cape Coral for three years on Jan. 5. I am recently unemployed due to cut backs at my job and have two young children and a fiance working part time and going to school full time. We still managed to pay the rent and utilities on time and give our children a great quality of life.
On Dec. 9, I walked outside to find a gentlemen wondering on the property. When I confronted him he informed me that this house was going up for auction soon and that the landlord has not been paying the mortgage on the house.
Devasted, my fiance contacted the property manager and then discovered that the landlord indeed hasn’t been paying the mortgage since October 2008 but still receiving our monthly rent payments on time and having to pay for upfront costs for three major appliance breaks that we were told, “Don’t worry just take it off the rent.” Also, if the house does sell during the auction we would have 72 hours to vacate the house.
After learning all this information and now having to foresee moving from the house we have growned to love, we cannot afford to move and pay all the upfront costs of moving into a new home.
What advice could you give us to help us weather this major hurdle for my family? I know times are tough everywhere and that this isn’t your fight. But I don’t know where else to turn to, thank you so much in advance.
Giovanni Basile and Family
Cape Coral