Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

Rental laws

What are the laws concerning a landlords right to raise the rent when there is no lease in question? Is there a limit to the dollar amount the rent can be raised, and how often can it be raised?


Asked on 1/20/00, 1:40 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Jeffrey P. Widman Law Offices

Re: Rental laws

If you have no written lease, you have a periodic tenancy. If rent is paid monthly, then the lease is from month-to-month. YOu can raise rent at will with a thirty-day notice, unless the jurisdication has a rent-control law applicable to your property.

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Answered on 1/24/00, 10:40 pm


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