The foreclosure sale will function to terminate the lease. However, until the foreclosure sale takes place, the owner is still the owner, and the lease remains in effect.
No. You mother's illness is not your landlord's fault.
No - that's not a breach by the landlord.
No. That is not a breach by the landlord.
Landlords give all sorts of crazy reasons for wanting to break leases. This is one of the strangest I have ever heard. A lease is a legal contract. It may contain a clause describing how the landlord can break it. The landlord may have sold the building for a whole lot of money. If he can get you out without having to pay you to break the lease then he gets to keep more money. His short sale does not involve you. He has a different motive. His short sale does not give him the right to break a lease. Your problem is your lease with him.
This is where a picture will save a thousand words. Take some where the rats are obviously in and about the house. Check with your state's tenant and landlord rights and find the procedures to follow to get out of the lease.
Yes, he can ask you to do all kinds of things, its up to you to refuse to do so.
He can't break the lease.
Yes, you can break your lease if your landlord refuses to fix things, as long as this is specified in the lease. Your landlord is liable for keeping the home in working order and safe. Contact an attorney to help you with the lease.
a landlord may not EVER break/violate a lease. [unless the tenant wishes it so]
No. If the property is about to be foreclosed, the landlord has no obligation to give the tenant any notice of anything. After the foreclosure, the landlord will have nothing to do with the tenant.
As a tenant, if the landlord wishes to break their own lease, you have the right to seek damages just as they would if you had broken your lease. The usual outcome for a landlord to break a lease is that the landlord forfeits any right to retain the security deposit.
Check your laws.
No. You mother's illness is not your landlord's fault.
The answer is probably not, but you can have the landlord arrested, or at least file charges against the person. To break the lease, you will probably have to sue in court.
No - that's not a breach by the landlord.
If you paid your rent late, he didn't break the lease - you did. He can now move to terminate the lease.
I'm no lawyer but... In some locations there are laws that provide a landlord the ability to terminate a lease due to sale. It probably has to be an "arm's length" sale, e.g not to his wife or brother.