A pensioner widow needs your help
Let me give you details of the matter.
My mom (living on family pen now) had a flat in a residential society in Thane west, Maharashtra. The said flat was decided to be sold by us. We got a buyer named Kadam who was ready to buy the said flat. The total cost was decided to be 41 lacs. Kadam paid us 20 lacs by cheques. All this took place in November 2019. Due to kadam's request, my late father decided to let him live in the house already. He shifted to the new house, even built his furniture. It was decided by oral agreement between kadam and my late father to not take any rent from him till March 2020 (during that time Kadam was working on his 21 lac loan). And if there is any delay in the loan after march 2020, then the rent will be started from april 2020. Kadam even got the Pre Loan letter (i don't know what it's called) from bank staying that he is eligible to get 21 lac loan from Cosmos bank Mulund, Mumbai. During november 2019 to march 2020, my father passed away and the broker's daughter was ill as well. Therefore there was a bit delay in the documentation transfer because of which Kadam could not work on the loan (even though all the original documents and society NOC was already given to kadam). But now all the documents have been submitted to kadam. Kadam even made us give him Transfer letter by saying the bank needs it. Even though we were doubtful about it, we gave him the Transfer letter from the society (we only paid the entire transfer fee of 25000 to the society as well-because of his saying).
Now he is delaying his payment of the remaining 21 lacs. When asked about it, he just says he could not do anything because of corona, bank doesn't have employees etc. When we said then at least start paying us rent, then he says that it was us because of which he didn't get the loan before March 2020, so he is not going to pay rent for the coming months as per the oral agreement.
Recently he has demanded to pay him 45 thousands for the agreement survey and processing fee. The flat has been transferred to more than 4 owners so far. Meaning the flat had many owners in the past, so many transfers to go through.
I don't know if that 45 thousands needs to be paid by us or Kadam. Plus if this case gets in the court (which i think we will need to in future), how much chances we have in this case, especially when we have given him transfer letter from the society. We have NOT given him "possession letter" and "share certificate".
He even told us that the brokarage has to be paid by us entirely. My father has told us before dying that we only need to pay the broker 40000 (which counts for 1% of falt value) But Kadam is saying it was not decided. Now since my dad is no longer alive, i believe Kadam and broker is taking advantage of us. The broker also said that we need to pay him 1 lac plus something as brokerage !! For a 41 lac resale flat !!
I know this is a long read for you sir, but please help and guide me through this. ???.
Asked 5 years ago in Property Law
Religion: Buddhist