Hi, new to the forum! Hope to get help. My aunt and uncle have a Mitchell Lama apartment and held it for several decades. My aunt died and my uncle is still living but wants to have his daughter take over the apartment. I have been living there for over a decade helping my family there. My utility bills (like phone bills) list this as my place of residence. The building complex has changed hands several times in the past ten years but we have paid our maintenance/rent and have been quiet, respectful tenants. The issue is now that if one stockholder/leaseholder has died and the other has moved out, does their daughter, who also lives here, have a right to succession? So far we have gotten letters demanding we show proof of who we are, the lawyer for the complex went so far as to outright state that the daughter is "alleged" and that the father is dead. Both were untrue and proven with documentation and us showing up. Now that the moratorium on the rents is over we are getting threats to evict (the complex got their money every month during the pandemic and they took it no problem). The lawyer from their side got nasty and sent an email threatening that the daughter (my cousin) will regret trying to fight it, when they found out my cousin went to the courts and the courts waived the pricey fee to fill out, file and process the paperwork to fight it. Now we have legal aid involved. The very same day we got a hearing to get a new date in court made, (we had to physically show up while their lawyer phoned it in on zoom) we came home to get a message that the bank electronic transfer of this month's rent was sent back by the complex. It had been accepted earlier this month but is now sent back. My cousin re-sent it back -- there was never a problem before with sending rent and they always took it. What should we anticipate next? Can this ML building evict us after all of this and without us having our day in court? And if we win succession, does the ML have to provide us with a lease? How else can they go about making life difficult besides delaying paperwork on their end or asking for more "time" to "investigate" us?
Thank you all in advance for your advice.