Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Yes, once you became a month-to-month tenant, the terms of your lease are (as you correctly opined) governed by the original lease. However, any of those terms, as you are now a month-to-month tenant, can be changed on 30 days notice including who pays what utilities, amount of rent, etc.... The downside of being a month-to-month tenant is that you are subject to change of terms on no more than 30 days notice. To terminate your tenancy, they must, however, now give you 60 days notice as you have lived in the property for 1 year or longer.

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