Honestly, this sounds an awful lot like the college kids renting a house (in this case each room seems to have had an entrance) and shares the rest of the house situation. Yes, maybe technically the farmhouse wasn’t zoned for that….but it’s not exactly a sinister living situation.
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No in that case rent is being paid.
I am guessing that in this case $5000 would have been the fee whether they were living there or not. If I’m wrong please someone let me know.
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Very sorry about the loss of your dad. That’s always hard, even without legal complications.
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KM, I am so sorry you are having to go through that, esp. after losing your father in that manner. It is hard enough losing a parent, and then having to try to settle the estate - esp when there are warring factions and other complications involved (as in my case with my father’s estate). But a wrongful death adds a whole 'nuther level of stress and sorrow. My deepest condolences.
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Thank you!
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Thank you.
Thankfully having been a vacuumer helped tons in all of it. Literally in tons of ways.
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I have to say that I finally decided to try the ignore feature for a couple of posters. So far, I like it.
It’s just a tiny bit confusing when people reply to posts that I can’t see, but since I know I’ve seen the content in all those unseen posts a million times before, it’s really not much of a loss.
And it certainly makes it much faster and easier to catch up on the threads without scrolling through all the attempts at diversionary sidetracks!
Highly recommend. 
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Everyone lived peacefully there for the most part. Justin had lived in the basement apartment for what, 15 years?
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Upstairs, top floor. Where Lauren and Rob/Jim moved in.
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Ah, corrected. Nonetheless, everyone split, and concern especially for the kids.
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We could have used you in our case! Distant state, obsessed with forms. Parent had a friend who was a retired military nurse who knew all the jargon. Regular nurse was ineffective. Forms had to be signed off by a doctor, what kind not specified. So we used a professor friend who had a Ph.D in art history. It was not a lawsuit, just a (successful) application for funds that had been wrongfully denied.
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I think you made a good point @BrownDerby, everyone lived contentedly in that house, divided however it was divided, shared however it was shared until Lauren Kanarek got jealous and decided to Finish the Bastard.
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Thank you so much. I think I might have this law stuff worried (as my father would say). 
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🫢 Oops, thank you.
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Thank you
What a mess for you. So sorry about your dad.
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Glad it worked!!
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You’re welcome!
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Well there are pop quizzes here from time to time!
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He did not have the right to rip out the smoke alarms in a living unit he had agreed to rent to others. As a landlord he is obligated to maintain its habitability.
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