I had a small restaurant, and on 2006 i subleased these business?

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my leasing ended on march/2008 i never had any problem with the people who was running the restaurant but, they decided to do the same thing after 6 months and they sold the business on feb/2007, they ask me if they would do this and I say ok but they should still paying me the rent cause I had the commitment with the landlord and I was responsible to pay the rents so they always paid me until my leasing finished, But my guarantee was the restaurant equipment. The "new owners went into a new leasing for 5 years and it supposed they should pay me the property taxes for the furniture and equipment of 2008. But when I was paying my property taxes online I decided to check if this account correspondent to the business still under my name, unfortunateley it is and not only that, these people never paid the taxes so I did it and now they don't want to pay me that money. What can I do if I never signed anything with them. The people who did the agreement were my buyers and now they are trying to collect this money for me but he second tenants just moved out from hte space in the middle of the night and they took out all the furniture and equipment. I have found them but it supposed that my buyers must go and ask them to pay me the money since they were the ones who sold the business and they signed the contract with this people. 
What can I do?
Thank you for any help

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

this sounds like a mess.  your language kind of rough so not exactly sure exactly what happened here, but i can guess.  sounds like you did not have contracts in place to cover all the details.  people do this all the time and it seldom turns out good.

in court you need to probve all this:
*prove you have, or had a lease with property owners.
*prove that you own the furnishings and fixtures (equipment).
*prove you sold the business (only) to the second party.
*prove the furnishings and fixtureswere not included in the sale; that you had a separate agreement covering these.
*prove that they sold the business to the third party.

whatever happened after that is their responsibility (the second party).  you are not included.  you would have needed to have a second agreement with the third party concerning the furnishings and fixtures as the second party did not own these things.  the owner is the one responsible for paying the taxes.

you need to contact an attorney.  good luck.

I had a small restaurant, and on 2006 i subleased these business?

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