Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Louisiana
Mobile Home on Property
We recently purchased 7 acres from my husband uncle. They had a verbal agreement that anything he was taking would be gone in 30 days. His uncle has moved away and left a double wide home there. The home is going back to the mortgage company. We sent the mortgage company a letter regarding a storage fee. Is this legal since the home is still on our land? If so how much can you charge then until they move it? The land papers were signed in Oct. 2007. Storage fee would have started 30 days after that.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Mobile Home on Property
It would seem today that 30 days notice to the mortgage company is a reasonable period of time for them to remove the trailer from your property. My only concern is that the mortgage company will charge back any fee that you attempt to collect from them onto your uncle. I would involve the uncle in the process. Notify him of the situation with the mortgage company and the trailer. This way you will be covered on all fronts.
Laurence Cohen
Re: Mobile Home on Property
You cannot charge storage unless you notify them of that fact. You have done that. You should have told them the amount that you were charging when you notified them. One other thing, are you should your Uncle did not mortgage the land when he mortgaged the trailer?
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