Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

You do not stop paying rent at all, unless you want to be evicted. Your landlord owns the property until the foreclosure sale and you owe them rent until they no longer own it. Once the property is sold, you then owe rent to the new owner. Under current law you have a minimum of 90 days after a foreclosure sale to stay in the property, as long as you pay rent. If you have a lease that runs out more than 90 days after the sale, you have until the end of the lease. A foreclosure is just another change of ownership of the rental property. It is not a ticket to a free ride for the tenant.