Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Re: rolling lease''

It is such a terribly bad idea. Essentially, what they are doing (and this is common on Isla Vista, even when I was in college in LA 25 years ago people were doing this at UCSB) is avoiding the whole landlord qualification process and just "transferring" leases from one set of tenants to the next. There are two versions of this - one is done without the landlord's consent or knowledge. These should be avoided at all costs as your daughter will have no real legal rights as a tenant in the property. Second form of this is where the landlord approves it, and rather than comply with the law governing refunding security deposits, etc... simply has the incoming tenant pay the outgoing tenant the deposit. This is okay only if your daughter is actually on a lease agreement with the landlord, and he acknowledges that she and her roommate have paid the deposit.

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