[lendaddy]

Our business went under and we've been negotiating with everyone involved. There are not enough assets to go around but the bank is in first position on those assets.

Anyway, we've been working with the landlord and have not contested him in any way thus far. We were to be "forced" out legally(though amicably) in a few weeks I guess and our bank was setting up an auction on the contents. We had been informed of the process by our lawyer and knew roughly how long we had. The landlord had not said anything to us about anything and we had even "shown" the building to some potential replacement tenants for him.

Then last week he came in out of nowhere and forced us out, changed the locks, put up a bunch of trespassing signs and even towed away (sold?) a couple of semi-trailers and a plow truck. I don't know if he sold anything inside or not since we can't get in. He even threatened to take our personal vehicles that were parked inside...it was a complete 180. We did not contest him at all, simply grabbed a few files and left. I expressed my apologies, explained the circumstances a bit, shook his hand and walked away. This calmed him quite a bit which leads me to believe some massive mis-communications have been happening with the lawyers or whatever.

It was odd given how we were working with him and the guy has been semi-pleasant. I 100% see his side and understand his emotions but I don't think he had any legal right to do what he did until the court ordered us out.

Please save the "Get your dead-beat ass out if you're not paying" crap, it's way more complicated than that. Banks and lease companies are involved and we couldn't move that stuff if we wanted to as it's not ours. We lost everything when this company went under and although I feel terrible that others took a hit with us there are still rules to play by. I think the landlord may have let his emotions guide him into something stupid. Any thoughts?