Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Re: month-to-month tenancy

An oral agreement is as valid as a written one, just harder to prove!

If you have same owner, and is same owner now (but new mgr.) they would have a difficult time evicting you after 7 years....IF you have had pets all the time.

I am enclosing a website on landlord's notice

Landlord's notice to end a periodic tenancy

A landlord can end a periodic tenancy(for example, a month-to-month tenancy) by giving the tenant proper advance written notice. Your landlord must give you 60 days� advance written notice that the tenancy will end if you and every other tenant or resident have lived in the rental unit for a year or more.181 However, the landlord can give you 30 days� advance written notice in either of the following situations:

Any tenant or resident has lived in the rental unit less than one year; 182 or

The landlord has contracted to sell the rental unit to another person who intends to occupy it for at least a year after the tenancy ends. In addition, all of the following must be true in order for the selling landlord to give you a 30-day notice

The landlord must have opened escrow with a licensed escrow agent or real estate broker, and

The landlord must have given you the 30-day notice no later than 120 days after opening the escrow, and

The landlord must not previously have given you a 30-day or 60-day notice, and

The rental unit must be one that can be sold separately from any other dwelling unit.182a

The landlord usually isn't required to state a reason for ending the tenancy in the 30-day or 60-day notice (see "Thirty-Day or Sixty-Day Notice"). The landlord can serve the 30-day or 60-day notice by certified mail or by one of the methods described under " Proper Service of Notices ".182b

I suggest you read the entire article at the California Government for Consumer Affairs.

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