He's preventing sale of house!
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| Mon, 08-14-2006 - 11:50pm |
I am so mad!!! History: Emotionally abusive STBX is living in our marital home which has been for sale since November last year (supposed to have gone on market May 2005 (yes over a year ago)). Daughters and I are living with my parents until house sells and I can afford to get a place of our own (I'm also still paying 1/2 the mortgage and loans)
I knew he was doing things to stall the sale of the house, like tearing up the front entry way for the last 6 weeks, turning the back bedroom into a storage room, taking up all 3 stalls of the garage with junk, only fixing up the small things rather than the big things (like changing the electrical covers instead of fixing the water damage in the living room ceiling), etc. Why not, he's living in a gorgeous house for 1/2 the cost and he had me paying almost 1/2 the utilities for some time too.
But I just found out he told the realtor they were not allowed to talk to me or contact me. I was not to be involved in the sale of the house at all. He apparently told the realtor that his lawyer filed some paperwork that said he was STBXs realtor and not mine. My name is on the deed too so he can't sell it without my signature. I found this out after going weeks without hearing back from the realtor and I called his office to complain. After talking to the realtor (after clearing up the no contact) I discovered STBX:
- refuses to lower the price
- keeps changing the code on the security system and doesn't tell the realtor the new code
- left a note on the door for other realtors to call stbx's cell phone for the new security code, but doesn't answer the phone or return messages. One person complained to realtor that he'd been trying to get hold of stbx for a week and a half.
- kept asking realtor if I called while at the same time telling me to call him to find out what is going on
- has been avoiding realtor's phone calls (leaves messages for him late at night when he know realtor won't answer)
- put recording equipment in the house (probably to find out if I'm going into my own house)
- doesn't leave the house during viewings or open houses
Realtor said he came to believe the last couple months STBX seems to have been doing what he could to aggrevate me.
Realtor is putting together something for my lawyer documenting what STBX said and what he's been doing. We're going into the house tomorrow (assuming STBX returns realtor's call tonight) so I can take pictures and video of the mess. I will try not to say anything that can be recorded and will see what I can find that he doesn't want me to (like his drug stash or the alcohol he's not supposed to have?). Realtor also lowered the price on my say-so, but we haven't told stbx yet.
I hope it is enough to get him out of the house so I can get in, clean it up and finally get it sold. I do know his lawyer is cut from the same mold as most of the guys we have all had to live with (with a law degree) so he will pull out every stop to keep him in there. I just have to get together what I can to prove that he's not doing what he can to get the house sold.
Sorry so long. Just needed to get this off my chest! Any advice on other things I can use to get him out of the house?
