Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

If you have a term lease, they cannot generally evict you without cause (as defined in the lease) before the end of the term of the lease. The problem, however, is that if you do not have a term lease, then you have no legal expectation of living in the property for more than one-month at a time. In other words, without any cause whatsoever, you can be evicted after a sixty day notice(or thirty day if you have lived there less-than one year). As such, you don't have a lot of standing to argue that they cannot terminate your tenancy and force you out. However, given what has gone on (and, hopefully you have documented all of this), you may be able to claim that you are being evicted as retaliation for complaining. If you can truly document with a judge that the only reason for your being evicted is retaliation, then you might prevail. There is no real way for you to go around a managment company - even a bad one - as the landlord has the right to give full agency to any management company he or she wants, and to avoid dealing with tenants.

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