Tent / Seller Issue

Hi! Hope everything is fine.. just want to ask this. My family bought a land from a certain seller/owner. And the land has a tenant and has previous agreements from the seller's deceased father with no documentation. Now that the land is sold, the seller/owner wants the buyer to pay for the tenants fee and all. Isn't it the seller's/owner's obligation to pay for those and settle with the tenants first? Please enlighten me. Thank you.
-@Ahara Polenio

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Your last words were "please enlighten me".

I just don't understand your dilemma, so "please enlighten me too".

So your family purchased land from a certain seller/owner that has previous agreements from a deceased person, the father of the seller, but has no documentation in writing from the deceased father or the tenant.

(1) You said your family member bought the land.

(2) Are these additional terms disclosed after the sale?

(3) Is the tenant the original tenant? or a descendant?

(4) Why is there a tenant fee to be paid?

(5) The tenant could be considered a squatter if this is not settled.

coach53 where are you?, Mr. Polenio needs your help.

All I can say to the OP is due diligence, you shouldn't have purchased the property until the previous owner sorted out his own dilemma and now you are dealing with it, cart before the horse, good luck as this will get hairy.

Sorry to be blunt and all that.

Cheers, Steve.

@Ahara Polenio Sounds like a squatter situation to me... no documentation means the deal died with the last owner.  If you have title in hand the land is yours and any agreement the last owner had is his problem to deal with in my opinion.  Without specifics and $$ amounts, and exactly what they are asking its hard to really give too much advice.... how big is this land?  What is it they want?(just space to live?)

Ahara, Did you buy a farmland with tenant farmers agreed (usually verbal and a handshake) upon from generations ago? The tenancy agreements are passed through generations on either the landlord and tenants. Note this is only true so long as the land is a farmland in the land registry. If you want to keep the tenant farmer continue to till the land, life goes on as is. You will be paying the tenant farmer if you are firing him. If you want to keep the land registered as a farmland and wanting to fire the tenant, you will have to pay him some money based on a set calculation. Something to do with lost income I think. Check how much share on the harvest the tenant gives the landlord every year then you can calculate his gross income per year. You'd have to check the local customs and traditions on the fees. You can also have the farmland re-zoned to residential. This will get the tenancy agreement revoked with no fees to the tenant. This is so the land is no longer a "farmland". But then the property taxes will be higher. Note this feedback is from the Ilocos Norte perspective.

Now, if you are talking about a different definition of tenant, NOT tenant farmer on a farmland in the Philippines, forget my ramblings. Cheers!

Who's the expat in this?