Tenants In Foreclosed Boarding House To Fight Off Eviction; Say New Law Prohibits Landlord From Giving Them The Boot

In Hyannis, Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Times reports:

• A group of tenants who received eviction notices last week at a local lodging house may be among the state's first to find protection under a federal foreclosure law signed this spring by President Barack Obama. As many as a dozen tenants in six rental units at Park Square Village, a 36-unit boardinghouse on Main Street in Hyannis, received eviction notices Friday threatening legal action if they did not vacate their units within seven days.

• The notices, issued by new property owner Bass River Properties of West Dennis, offer no reason behind the evictions. But with a stated July 11 deadline, they may be in violation of the new foreclosure law, which requires property owners who come into land through foreclosure to honor all existing leases and to provide a 90-day window for any month-to-month tenants,(1) experts say.

For more, see Cape evictions test new federal law.

(1) See Section 702(a)(2) of the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009. RentSigmaSkimming