The buidling went into foreclosure
Cross posted in the lounge...
In the case of the missing landlord thread I was hopeful that I was making progress with the leasing company. Here's the update:
Our lease is with a property management company and the end of our lease is soon. In three years, they changed names/addresses and finally disappeared completely. No one answers at the last known phone number I have and a recent letter was returned.
When we tried to track down the ownership of the building, the city had the wrong name listed (confirmed when we contacted the name on the list and he became irate because he owns the building down the street and not ours.)
Trash pickup stopped about a month ago but another tenant is paying it for now. Grounds keeping has stopped altogether and the grass is a foot high. Someone at the city found a foreclosure notice for the property and told us the building had been owned by overseas investors but was now bank owned. Said bank has now gone under and another bank is supposed to take over.
NOW WHAT? I understand that the terms of our lease are still valid, but how do we give notice that we plan to move? Where the hell is our deposit? How can we even decide to move if we don't know if we can stay or not?
Anyone with ANY experience/advice?
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that's got some good info. Thanks!
She said the letter was good but I need to go further and cc the last known property manager, the property manager's home address, and the last known bank...waiting for the letters to come back so that I have a good paper trail.
As far as the new bank owner, she said it could be months before they notify us and we shouldn't necessarily seek them out. We can ask the county for deed records but she said they are usually so messed up, we might be on a wild goose chase for a bit. And she said this is far more common than people realize. 
She did say we would be month to month at the end of the lease regardless of what we know. She also said if the property remained bank owned, the bank would be eager to keep us in the space rather than kick us out especially with other space in the building available.
Same thing about keeping track of all the additional expenses and deducting that from any rent they may try to claim. She said we cannot force the other tenants to help pay for these costs but we should try to work out something fair.
Nothing too surprising or new but I felt better. 
THANK YOU for your advice!
