We have made a verbal agreement - housing as compensation for employment now, after three months, they changed their minds.
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We're ministers and were contacted by a couple that had a church in another state that wanted up to pastor a church there. They offered to allow us to live in the house they owned in exchange for us providing pastoring for the church. Now after only three months they have decided that they do not want us to pastor. We have now got to find a place to live, how long do we have? It will take a while to find and get settled in a new church.
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Situations like this, housing as part of the compensation for employment, don't always get treated in the same way as the usual landlord-tenant situation, although it might well be that now that the job is gone, that's how a court would now look at it. If so, you're holdover tenants, and I think that you should expect to be out of there after a month from the end of the pastoring.
You can't insist on finding a new church first. The people that own the church and the house are out there looking for a new minister, and they'll want the house for their pastor of choice.
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