Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Re: tenants rights

The landlord has the legal right to collect rent from you until the day you move out and surrender possession to him. There is no getting around that. I am surprised that your landlord gave you a sixty day notice, rather than a three day notice to pay the past due rent. It indicates to me that he is trying (as best he can - remember he is relying on that income from that property to pay his bills) to be sensitive to your problems, but he cannot allow you to stay indefinitely without paying rent. If you do not pay rent during the sixty days, you can almost guarantee that he will then give you a three day notice, and evict you from the property well before the sixty days are up. I am very sorry to hear of your problems, but you have to look at it this way - the landlord is in the business of renting apartments. He has no legal or ethical obligation to provide free rent because you lost your jobs. He has been kind thus far by not evicting you already. The income from your apartment is almost certainly necessary from his standpoint to pay his bills. He won't, nor should he be forced to let you stay for free. Good luck.

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