Posted by John Merchant on January 08, 2007 at 16:22:58:
Build your case with a search of your local city ordinances and what violations these OOS guys have committed.
If the properties are really bad your Health Dept would probably help you here by their inspections and finding of illegal conditions.
Also they’ve maybe violated a bunch of HOA Rules so that would be further cause of action for the lawsuit.
By the way, also know that frequently an OOS corp or LLC that should have registered itself with your PA Sec of State, Corp. Division, has NOT done so…and its failure to do so might cost it the right to respond or defend itself in your PA courts.
Whereas normally, mere ownership by a corp or LLC in another state doesn’t require registration there, if it’s renting RE, it IS required to be registered.
So go after those bad OOS’ers and nail’em for their slothful and pig-sty ways.