Lease- husband gone

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Hi guys,

We will be moving towards the end of summer. My husband will be gone the months leading up to that. We will have no communication so I will be left to my own with house hunting.

Rental places go very very fast (no base housing) and to get a place for our move time, I will need to find something while he is gone.

Is there a special power of attorney that will allow me to do this? Or are we kinda screwed?

[calmcosmo]

Real estate power of attorney. I bought a house with one so you shouldn't have any trouble signing a lease with one. It allows you to initial on your husband's behalf on all legal real estate transactions . Go to JAG for that specific POA.

A regular general POA is not sufficient.

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Jan 15, 2016 15:46:59 GMT -5 calmcosmo said:

Real estate power of attorney. I bought a house with one so you shouldn't have any trouble signing a lease with one. It allows you to initial on your husband's behalf on all legal real estate transactions . Go to JAG for that specific POA.

A regular general POA is not sufficient.

Thanks!

[kpol]

I was able to do it with a general POA once but I'd go for the special one just in case.

[calmcosmo]

My guess is that if you rented in a by-owner situation they might be pretty generous about using a general POA. If you are using a realtor or PM company they might be a stickler for specific. I'd just get the specific to cover your bases . I definitely needed it to buy, but to rent I could see it being dependent on who is doing the approval.

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We will definitely go to the jag next week sometime and get a specific POA. we had one when we bought our house because he was at a school for our closing but I didn't know if there was one to rent. I know the jags office will be able to answer questions so hopefully we can figure it out.

[calmcosmo]

It's not specific to renting... it's just a real estate POA. It covers all real estate transactions .

[amaristella]

I don't have much to add besides don't be like me. If your husband is going to be gone for a while (anywhere near a year) watch the expiration date on your POA documents. All mine are about to expire and I only just realized when I started looking for properties to rent. I want out of the apartment I'm currently in before the rent switches to month to month along with a 25% price increase.

My husband was slightly extended on homecoming as well so the time that I thought we'd be able to spend searching for a place and signing together, in person, no longer exists unless we pay a jacked up rent for our apartment. So hopefully the house I just found and really like, I can get into an agreement quickly with one of the POAs I have or wait a few days for new ones to arrive. I realized my special only had language for getting into military housing. It was silent on civilian leases. WHoops!

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Good luck amaristella!

Thankfully he won't be gone terribly long. Worst case, we live with my in-laws for a month while looking together lol

I did find out we would qualify for base housing in DC but everyone is telling me it's a terrible area. I'm going to try to Google tonight.

[blondemoment123]

Jan 15, 2016 18:38:25 GMT -5 calmcosmo said:

My guess is that if you rented in a by-owner situation they might be pretty generous about using a general POA. If you are using a realtor or PM company they might be a stickler for specific. I'd just get the specific to cover your bases . I definitely needed it to buy, but to rent I could see it being dependent on who is doing the approval.

This. When I was a PM I required a real estate POA but some of my competitors didn't.

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Jan 16, 2016 19:56:15 GMT -5 blondemoment123 said:

Jan 15, 2016 18:38:25 GMT -5 calmcosmo said:

My guess is that if you rented in a by-owner situation they might be pretty generous about using a general POA. If you are using a realtor or PM company they might be a stickler for specific. I'd just get the specific to cover your bases . I definitely needed it to buy, but to rent I could see it being dependent on who is doing the approval.

This. When I was a PM I required a real estate POA but some of my competitors didn't.

Thank you!

We will get this done this week.

Thanks so much everyone!