Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

It depends on when you received a Notice to Pay or Quit, and whether you tendered the full amount of rent in that timeframe. If you did not offer to pay the full amount of past-due rent before their notice to pay rent or quit expired, then you have no right to even pay the rent and stay. They, in that case, can require that you pay their fees and costs to restore the lease because legally you have no right to restore or reinstate the lease. Once that notice to pay or quit expires, your only legal right is to move or be evicted. Anything other than that offered by the landlord is purely voluntary on their part.

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