Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Florida

Landlord wants to evict because we request he do things.
We rented a house with the landlord living next door. Before signing the lease we offered to maintain the yard, but the landlord said his wife loved to mow and that she would maintain the yard. We are required to water the yard twice a week which we do, we pay for the water. We asked that the lawn be mowed every week in the summer and as needed in the winter.
We now have to ask for the yard to be mowed weekly because she only wants to do it twice a month. The grass is 95% weeds and grow fast with the watering, the flower beds are all overgrown with weeds and she will not weed them.
Her husband, our landlord, now wants to evict us because we are complaining and fighting over this, but we pay $1,300mt and were told they would keep this place up and they aren't and she does not like us.
Now she is taking plants from this house and planting them in her yard leaving our yard a mess.
We had the landlord sign an agreement to continue our lease until our new home is built. We agreed to give him a one mt notice before we move out. He signed this letter agreeing.
Our rent and all the bills are paid on time, never late.
Can he now evict us because his wife doesn't like us and yard problem, and is the signed extention
letter legal?

Asked on 7/25/05, 8:20 am

David Slater David P. Slater, Esq.

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Re: Landlord wants to evict because we request he do things.

The written lease controls. Oral agreements are unenforceable.

Answered on 7/25/05, 9:06 am

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