Do I still have to pay rent to my LL who is in default?

I am a tenant who lives in a condo that is headed towards foreclosure. My landlord is still collecting rent from me while they are not making payments on the condo. Why should they get to pocket my rent payments when I will just get evicted in the end?

So my question is...what is considered foreclosure status? Can I do anything? A letter arrived stating that the house was in default, and if payments were not made, then the bank would foreclose on the house. Do I still have to continue to pay my landlord rent when they have not paid their mortgage payments over the past year? The letter stated that they had not paid over $18,000 in mortgage payments.

I am in California.

Please help!

[sunlover]

Simply put you owe rent to whomever is legal owner at time. Until home is actually forclosed on the owner is still your Landlord. You might discuss your leaving with current Landlord to avoid the bank ordering you to leave. If your m2m thats easy give notice and swtart looking for new place. If you have a lease talk to landlord about allowing you to leave before lease expires since he is in foreclosure

See your other post.

Why don't you start looking for another place to live? Surely if you're aware of an impending foreclosure you don't want to wait until you are forced to leave.

But yes, you are still required to pay rent, regardless of what the landlord does with that money. You cannot control what he does with his money and if he's stupid/irresponsible enough to lose his source of income and his investment, he's not a person you want to be renting from.