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Beware of realtors in Wallowa County, Oregon

By Lucie

Recently we lost our very successful and prosperous Wildflour Bakery business to a predatory landlord whose response to our request to renegotiate some lease language was a 30-day eviction notice.  Because my husband knew of someone interested in the bakery, he assigned the trade fixtures and all business interests to a prospective buyer to save the business.  When the landlord heard of this she acted in contempt of a court order allowing us to remove trade fixtures and personal property.  We were locked out 53 hours before the court ordered time limit was up and before all our property could be removed.   

The landlord then issued summons to all parties, (even though I had just married my husband, and owner of the Wildflour Bakery, following a long recovery from open-heart surgery and I held no interest in the business).  
We have just now been dealt a blow through a blatant miscarriage of justice in which a local judge overruled Oregon law making it illegal for a landlord to be enriched by a tenant’s build-outs, property or fixtures.  We were never given reduced rent in exchange and always paid on time.  

I am on SSI and my husband is a retired teacher and veteran with minimal income.  The ruling that awards the landlord $4800 is a definite hardship.  My husband was always a model tenant and we had no intention of vacating or causing problems until the landlord insisted on a non-negotiable lease that left us unprotected and at their mercy as far as invasion of our space and non-compliance with rental codes involving garbage disposal and building maintenance, among other things.
The new buyer offered to pay a year in advance, but they held to the demand that insisted on replacing the state of the art flooring my husband had installed with carpeting upon vacating and began making claims against all of us.
Not only did the judge award them the expensive flooring, but he refused to award us anything for the $16,000 investment my husband had made in the property or anything for loss of the business or for the high season income we lost.  We are currently destitute and in fear of not being able to afford housing or food.  
We also have proof from the local title office that this landlord’s real estate office caused a foreclosure on my husband’s former home, without due process, after he put $50,000 down from the sale of a home that was purchased with a VA loan while he was teaching in Alaska.  He was prevented from renegotiating  his loan and lost everything at that time.  
US Bank and the Wallowa Title company were party to that deal as well as our commercial landlord, Real Estate Associates in Joseph, OR.

 

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Edited on: Thursday, September 20th, 2012 3:37 pm
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By Lucie

Recently we lost our very successful and prosperous Wildflour Bakery business to a predatory landlord whose response to our request to renegotiate some lease language was a 30-day eviction notice.  Because my husband knew of someone interested in the bakery, he assigned the trade fixtures and all business interests to a prospective buyer to save the business.  When the landlord heard of this she acted in contempt of a court order allowing us to remove trade fixtures and personal property.  We were locked out 53 hours before the court ordered time limit was up and before all our property could be removed.   

The landlord then issued summons to all parties, (even though I had just married my husband, and owner of the Wildflour Bakery, following a long recovery from open-heart surgery and I held no interest in the business).  
We have just now been dealt a blow through a blatant miscarriage of justice in which a local judge overruled Oregon law making it illegal for a landlord to be enriched by a tenant’s build-outs, property or fixtures.  We were never given reduced rent in exchange and always paid on time.  

I am on SSI and my husband is a retired teacher and veteran with minimal income.  The ruling that awards the landlord $4800 is a definite hardship.  My husband was always a model tenant and we had no intention of vacating or causing problems until the landlord insisted on a non-negotiable lease that left us unprotected and at their mercy as far as invasion of our space and non-compliance with rental codes involving garbage disposal and building maintenance, among other things.
The new buyer offered to pay a year in advance, but they held to the demand that insisted on replacing the state of the art flooring my husband had installed with carpeting upon vacating and began making claims against us, telling  the buyer to  deal  directly  with them  as the bakery was theirs. 
Not only did the judge award them the expensive flooring, but he refused to award us anything for the $16,000 investment my husband had made in the property or anything for loss of the business or for the high season income we lost.  We are currently destitute and in fear of not being able to afford housing or food.  
We also have proof from the local title office that this landlord’s real estate office caused a foreclosure on my husband’s former home, without due process, after he put $50,000 down from the sale of a home that was purchased with a VA loan while he was teaching in Alaska.  He was prevented from renegotiating  his loan and lost everything at that time.  
US Bank and the Wallowa Title company were party to that deal as well as our commercial landlord, Real Estate Associates in Joseph, OR.

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Edited on: Thursday, September 20th, 2012 2:55 pm
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