Can Habitat for Humanity require homeowners to employee a property management company?
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Can Habitat for Humanity require homeowners to employee a property management company?
Can Habitat for Humanity require
homeowners to employee a property
management company?
Asked on January 30, 2018 under Real Estate Law, Massachusetts
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
If the homeowners agree to this before taking possession or ownership of the home, then yes, this is legal: anything you agree to in exchange for getting something (like a home) is valid (so long as the thing you agree to is not intrinsically illegal, so agreements to launder money or deal drugs are not legal--but there is nothing intrinsically illegal about using a property management company). The homeowner can be put in the position of having to agree to the property management company to get the home; and if the would-be homeowner is unwilling to employ a property management company, he or she can walk away from the transaction and not take the house--that is, the property management company can be a condition of getting the home.
But it has to be agreed to before getting the home, as a condition of getting it. If the homeowner and Habitat already agreed this homeowner would get the home without this particular string being attached, Habitat cannot after the fact add this condition.
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