Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Re: Landlord/Tenant

First, very sorry to hear about your financial problems - sadly you are not alone in this terrible economy.

Do you have a term lease? If not, you are a month-to-month tenant, and as such, you have no right to remain in the property more than a month at a time. Rather than give you a three day notice to pay or quit, the landlord has simply elected to terminate your tenancy with a sixty day notice. The landlord may absolutely do so, and need not have any reason for doing so. I would suggest that you not focus on fighting it, but rather focus on finding a new place to live. The only defense to a sixty day notice is if the termination of your tenancy is in some way based on retaliation for something you may have done (filed a complaint with the City, etc...). Terminating your tenancy because you failed to pay rent is not grounds for retaliatory eviction.

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