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Our new landlord suddenly increased our house for sale to 228% compared to the previous price. We have been renting for 20 years. What are our rights?For the United States, Colorado:Where you live, what the laws are, and what your lease says will tell you what your rights are. I am a seasoned landlord in Colorado, United States, so I will answer from my locale’s perspective.First of all, an increase of 228% from 1999 to 2019 in the United States is not unreasonable and in fact may be a down right bargain. A property I purchased in November of 1999 in the Denver-Metro, Colorado area for $224k now has a market value of $550k. That’s 246% compared to the 1999 sale or about 4.5% year over year increase. If you want to talk about the properties I purchased in 2012–2013, that percentage will be a whole lot higher. A property I bought on auction in 2013 for $82,500 is now worth $250,000 - That’s over 300% or about a 25% year over year increase.Your rights are in the Lease:Look at your lease carefully for any terms for “Right of First Offer” and “Right of First Refusal” in relationship to to the sale of the property.While these are more common in commercial leases, and generally only apply to leasing the current or other enjoined space, they do appear in some residential leases.Right of First Offer - This term means that the landlord/owner must give you the opportunity to make an offer before offers will be accepted from anyone else. There is little leverage afforded with these terms unless the contract (lease) specifies the amount or other mechanism that would set the price at a point that is more advantageous to you.In effect, the landlord/owner just has to notify you that the property is for sale and you have a specific period of time in which to respond if you want to make an offer without competition. The landlord/owner is under no obligation to accept any offer you make.Right of First Refusal - This term gives you much more power. What it means is the landlord/owner can market and get an offer for the property, but will have to present it to you (or at least the terms) and you have the opportunity and option to take the deal as presented for yourself. If you refuse it, then the landlord/owner is off the hook to sell it to you and can sell it to anyone they want to.But wait, that’s not all:Rent/Lease to Own arrangementsIf you have any Lease or Rent to Own language in your lease you may have other rights as described in the lease. Beware, though, that unless the terms of the agreement limit the sale price, the landlord/owner can set the price wherever they like.Term LeasesDon’t start packing your bags quite yet. Review your lease terms for language regarding sale of the premises and local laws. If there are no terms in the lease that state it will terminate it after notice of sale, then the new buyer will be required to honor the remainder of your lease. You may be able to stay where you are for a long time.

If, by very well, you mean that PO(tu)S kept his lies to around 50% of its speech instead of its normal 70%, then yes—the SOTU went well.Why does anyone capable of rational thought dislike 45? Let me see if I can come up with an answer or two:A.) He lies. A LOT. Politifact rates 70% of the words he speaks as “Mostly False or worse” Only 15% of the things he says get a “Mostly True” or better rating. That is an absolutely unbelievable number. How he doesn’t speak more truth by mistake is beyond me. To put it in context, Obama’s rating was 26% mostly false or worse. Many of Trump’s former business associates report that he has always been a compulsive liar, but now he’s the President of the United States, and that’s a problem. And this is a man who expects you to believe him when he points at other people and says “They’re lying”B.) He’s an authoritarian populist, not a conservative. He advances regressive social policy while proposing to expand federal spending and federalist authority over states, both of which conservatives are supposed to hate.C.) He pretends at Christianity to court the Religious Right but fails to live anything resembling a Christ-Like Life.D.) His nationalist “America First” message effectively alienates us and removes us from our place as leaders in the international community.E.) His ideas on “Keeping us safe” are all thinly veiled ideas to remove our freedoms, he is, after all, an authoritarian first. They also are simply bad ideas.F.) He couldn’t pass a 3rd-grade civics exam. He doesn't’ know what he’s doing. He doesn't understand how international relations work, he doesn’t understand how federal state or local governments work, and every time someone tries to “Run it like a business” it’s a spectacular failure. See Colorado Springs’ recent history as an example. And that was a businessman with a MUCH better business track record than Trump. We are talking about a man who lost money owning a freaking gambling casino.G.) He’s unethical and always has been. As a businessman, he constantly left in his wake unpaid contractors and invoices, litigation, broken promises, whatever he could get away with.H.) He is damaging our relationships with our best international friends while kissing up to nations that do not have our best interests in mind. To his question “Wouldn't’ it be great to have better relations with Russia?” The answer is Yes. But RUSSIA has to be the ones who earn that, who must stop doing the things that are damaging to that relationship, or we are simply weaker for it.I.) He has never seen a shortcut he didn't like, and you can’t take shortcuts in government. “Nuclear Option, Remove the Filibuster, I’ll change the Constitution by Executive Order…Don…what happens when you remove the filibuster and the other side retakes the majority in the Senate? Suddenly want that filibuster back? What happens if you manage to change the Constitution by Executive Order and an Anti-2A President wins the next election?J.) He is and always has been an unabashed racist. Yes, I’ve seen your favorite meme that claims he was never accused of racism before the Democrats…Absolutely false. See the Central Park 5, the lawsuits and fines resulting from his refusal to lease to black tenants, the 1992 lost appeal trying to overturn penalties for removing black dealers from tables, his remarks to the house native American affairs subcommittee in 1993. The man sees and treats racial groups of people as monoliths.K.) He is systematically steamrolling regulations specifically designed to keep a disaster like the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis from happening again.L.) He speaks and acts like a demagogue. He sees the Legislative and Judicial branches of government as inconveniences, blows up at criticism no matter how deserved and actively tries to countermand constitutional processes, not to mention attempts to blackmail and coerce people who are saying negative things about himM.) His choices for top positions, with the exception of Gen. Mattis, who is a gem, have been horrendous. A secretary of Education without a resume that would get her hired as a small town grammar school principal, A secretary of Energy who didn't know the Department of Energy was responsible for nuclear reserves, an EPA head whose biggest accomplishments to date had been suing the EPA on multiple occasions, an FCC head who while working for Verizon actively lobbied to kill net neutrality, and an Attorney General who thinks pot is “nearly as bad as heroin” and asked Congress for permission to go after legal pot businesses in states where it is legal. (There goes that great Republican States rights rally cry again, right? *Crickets*) An Interim AG after Firing his First AG who’s appointment is probably unconstitutional.N.) He denies scientific fact. Ever notice that the only people you hear denying climate change are politicians and lobbyists? 97% of actual scientists studying the issue agree that it’s real, man-made and caused by greenhouse gasses. Ever notice that every big disaster movie starts with a bunch of politicians in a room ignoring a scientist's warning?0.) He does not have the temperament to lead this nation. He is Thin Skinned, childish, and a bully, never mind misogynistic, boorish, rude, and incapable of civil discourse.P.) He still does not understand that the words he speaks, or tweets, are the official position of 1/3 of the US government, and so does not govern his words. He still thinks when he speaks it’s good ol’ Donald Trump. It’s not. It’s the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. You have probably spread a meme or two around talking about how no president’s every word has ever been dissected before…YES, THEY ALWAYS HAVE. It’s just that every other president in our lifetime has understood the importance of his words and took great care to govern his speech. Trump blurts out whatever comes to his mind then complains when people talk about what a dumb thing that was to say.Q.) He’s unqualified. If you owned a small business and were looking for someone to manage it, and an unnamed resume came across your desk and you saw 6 bankruptcies, showing a man who had failed to make money running CASINOS, would you hire him? He is a very poor businessman. This is a man it is estimated would have been worth $10 BILLION more if he’d just taken what his father had given him, invested it in Index Funds and left it alone.R.) He is President. But he refuses to take a leadership position and understand that he is everyone’s President. Conservatives complain about liberals chanting “Not my President” while Trump himself behaves as if no one but his supporters matter.S.) He’s a blatant hypocrite. He spent 8 years bitching Obama out for his family trips, or golfing, or any time he took for himself, and what does he do? He was already on his 20th golf outing in APRIL of his 1st year in office. He constantly rants about respect for the military, yet can’t be bothered to attend the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day because of a little rain. (And that excuse about Marine One not being able to fly in the rain is HILARIOUS.)T.) He’s a misogynist. It's not really ok in this day and age to be a misogynist, but it’s not a huge deal if you’re a private citizen. It’s a pretty big deal if you hate half the people you’re elected to lead. The disdain for women seeps out of his …whatever…. and he just can’t hide it.U.) Face it. In any other election “Grab Em’ By the Pussy” would have been the end of that candidate’s chances. Back in the 80’s I used to marvel about how Teflon Ronald Reagan was. I no longer do. The fact that he managed to slip by on that is as much a statement about how much people hate Hillary Clinton (mostly based on Russian propaganda as ‘reported’ by Faux News) as it is about what is wrong with politics in this country right now.V.) He has one response to a differing opinion. Attack. A good leader listens to criticism, to different points of view, is capable of self-reflection, tries to guide people to his point of view, and when necessary stands his ground and defends his convictions. Any of that sound like Trump. His default is not to Lead, its’ to attack. Scorched Earth. The Jim Acosta reaction is a good example. There was no defense of his convictions when Acosta was asking him repeated questions about his rhetoric on the caravan. His response was to attack Acosta.W.) He takes credit for everything positive while deflecting blame for everything negative. Look at him with the Stock Market. He’s been bragging about it since day one, and to give credit where credit is due, speculation on coming deregulation early in his presidency did fuel some rapid growth, but to pretend that it’s all him, that we’re not in the 9th year of the longest bull market in history and THEN, when the standard market volatility that deregulation inevitably brings about starts to show up? Yeah. Look at yesterday. Hey! Stock Markets losing because the Democrats won! Do I need to bring out the Stock market chart for the last 10 Years again?Need more?

There are many places to pan for gold in the U.S. still. I do not have specifics but, you are able to lease or buy placer claims where you can go and pan for gold. There is still a lot of gold in many states such as Colorado. You should be able to find many placer claims on Google. I have also found some on Ebay. Hope this helps and sorry that I couldn't give you more information.