Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Ohio

Your friends may have violated the lease agreement by having you move into the apartment (there may be a clause regarding subleasing or there may be a clause specifying how many tenants can reside on the property). You are not a tenant at will because you did not make the agreement with the landlord, your friends did. That being said, you are correct in your understanding that to evict you and your friends he must give you a 3 day notice of eviction. That gives you 3 days to move out or he will start court eviction processes. After the 3 days he would file an eviction action in the court and it would be set for hearing about 2-4 weeks later (depends on the court). At that hearing you can present your case but if the judge rules in the landlord's favor (which in most cases they do) then you will have an additional 7-14 days to move out before the sheriff comes in and "forcibly" removes all of you (meaning setting your belongings outside of the apartment).