We applied for an assignment due to ongoing issues with our rental unit. We are also being heard at the Rental Tribunal as part of the issues in the home. The other day the owner put the house up for sale. That is obviously going to make assigning the home that much more difficult for us......any direction on how we should proceed with this?

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I rented a property from a landlord 2 1/2 years ago. he lied to me about being the owner. he then helped to sell that property while i still had a lease. he offered to rent me another property he owned. he offered reduced rent due to repairs being needed. he rented to me for two years, then sold this property. he gave me a verbal notice i have 30 days to move. he finaly agreed to provide a 30 day notice after two weeks, but says i still have to be out by the end of the month. i sent him a letter stating that i will try to be out by the first after i got the verbal notice. he is stating that he will change the locks on the door and have my thigs hauled away or sold as of the first (at my cost). is this legal, can he do this? and who can i talk to about this? reno housing wont help since i am not section 8.

I know you said he gave you verbal notice to leave but I am assuming you have a written lease. Check the renewal terms on that lease. If there are no renewal terms the lease would default to a month to month lease. If this is the case the landlord would need to give you 30 days notice that he was not renewing the lease. If you choose not to be out, there is most like a holdover clause in your lease stating what he will charge for you not being out. He will then need to file for eviction as well. The best person to talk to is the landlord and let him know he needs to be reasonable to give you proper time to move and that it would take longer to evict you than just allow you to find a new place to live. Remember to keep everything civil, even if he/she gets out of hand. If that doesn't work you should contact a local tenant rights group or attorney familiar with Landlord/Tenant law. The local tenant rights group should be able to provide a recommendation for a lawyer. The following website is a good starting point for Nevada residents. http://www.nevadarentershotline.org/ As for your things, the landlord is required by law to keep any items left in the dwelling for 30 days.

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I'm in california and have lived in my current rental for 8 years and rented on a month to month lease. now the landlord is selling the property in a short sale. i know i am only obligated to give 30 days notice, and normally they are required to give me 60 days notice. but doesn't that change when the house is for sale? also, in terms of notice, what are the obligations of my new landlord should they ask us to move? my current landlord is trying to get me to sign an addendum to the lease saying that they are required to give me 60 days notice, and if i move, i am required to give them 60 days notice. it sounds completely wrong to me and that she is the only one that will gain an advantage there. but am i wrong? just trying to look out for myself. this is a lousy situation to be in. (and yes, i am keeping an eye out for another rental.) aj

You are correct. The landlord must provide a 60 day notice to tenant in CA who have lived there over 1 years. You are required to give a 30 day notice. Signing the addendum in not against CA law...but I wouldn't sign.

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I had asked that they not hold me to the 30 days as it may be difficult to find someone willing to sit on vacant property for that length of time. they said that was not their problem. they asked me to move, is this legal? what happens if i am not able to move by the end of 30 days? can i pay rent a week at a time until i can move out?

Actually- If your landlord is selling the property, he/she is required to give you (written)30 day notice of the termination of your rental agreement. If you have lived there longerthan a year, 60 day notice is required. Their are a lot of factors that you have not brought up. I would say your best resource is the Dept. of Consumer Affairs. See web site below.

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We moved in to a building in st. marys, west virgina. 2 months ago no mention that they may be selling the property. well the new owners told me they had purchased the property and we had to be out verbally no paperwork. we have to be out by june 1,2010. we have not received any paperwork at all no eviction notices. wondering what my rights are as far as that goes. please help.? keep in mind that the old landlord has been by to collect the rent which we paid in full, with no mention and the paperwork has been done since may 30, 2010. do we still have 30 days from the day the papers will be served or do we have till our rent is due? thank you.

What paperwork was done May 30th? Not knowing this it is hard to give an accurate answer. You came with the building, just because it was sold doesn't mean they can just kick you out. They have to follow the same procedure as any other landlord. You have to be notified in writing, you have 3 days if you have not paid rent, 30 days if you have. This is assuming you pay rent every 30 days, if you pay every 14 days you have a 14 day notice, every week, a 7 day.

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We are renters of a single family home in ca. we were given notice a couple of months ago through the property managment company that the homeowner's were going to list the house for sale. we are on a month to month lease, and we have been cooperating with the homeowner's agent for showings. the house is being sold as a short sale. i was curious if anyone had any insight on typically when we would be given our 30 days notice to move once the house has had an offer on it. does it vary by seller? or is it typically closer to when they have a "hard" close date they would do 30 days prior to that?

Short sales take forever. Until the house closes only your current landlord can put you on notice. We have no way of knowing if he intends on letting his buyer figure out what he wants to do with you after the sale, or if he's going to give you notice at the buyer's request. What the buyer wants is going to depend on what their intentions are. If they're buying the house the be their home, then chances are they'll want you out by closing or ASAP afterward. As the previous poster mentioned, if they're an investor they may be happy to have a tenant in place and offer to enter in a new agreement with you.

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We signed a 2yr lease in october, 2010 for our property. early one morning in january, we were awakened by a metro deputy who was leaving notice that there was a tax lien being placed on our property. we found out that the property taxes had not been paid since 2007 on our home. we addressed the situation with our landlord and she said it was being taken care of. march 31, we received a letter addressed to our landlord or current resident notifying that the tax case was going to court on friday april 8th and they would be pushing for a default and the right to sell the home at a tax auction. my question is at what point would our lease be broken? we have been advised that once the default judgment is granted then it will be auctioned off within 30 days. we have also been advised that post judgment, the police can come and put us out of our home at any time with no notice. our landlord tells us that the matter has already been resolved, which is a direct contradiction to the records at the clerks office. any advice from a tn lawyer would be very helpful. do we have the right to break our lease without penalty and move out? or should we just wait for metro to come and put us out and have to find elsewhere to go in a single day?

plz tell me who advised that with a judgment, you can be evicted? IF you can scrape the $ together, why not pay the taxes? They can be excellent investments! seriously. get back to me

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I am moving in 7 days. my landlord has been very wishy washy about what he wants to do with his house. he says he wants to sell it then he says he wants to move into and fix it up. we had a 6 month lease and it has been month to month for the last 2 months. we gave a 30 day notice at the end of april to move may 31st. it does not say in our lease that the property can be shown while we are living in it. i found out that his wife came on the property about a month ago while i was at work and took pictures of the property. she assured me that she did not enter the house. i think that they should let me know if they are going to come over. i have told my landlord that i do not wish for anyone to look at the house until i am moved out. do i have the right to refuse for him to show the house. i do not see why he can't wait 7 days. so classy granny you think that a landlord has the right to come and go as he pleases because that is exactly what they are doing and not giving any notice at all.

Sorry but by law your landlord can enter the apartment with 24 hour notice. You can say no to a lockbox or to anyone other than the landlord showing the apartment (like if a local Realtor wanted to show it without your landlord present). Your 6 month lease expired at the 6 month mark and now since you are on month to month with no written agreement, its nulls out anything you had written in your lease. My advice, Insist on 24 hr notice to show and only allow showings in which the landlord will be present. You can even insist that you want to be present as well. If he/she does not give you the 24 hr notice, call the police and file a report. 24 hr notice is the law. (Your landlord might be so sick of your demands, he may just find it easier to wait!) BUT... MAKE SURE that you get pictures of the apartment when you leave. Starting a fight with a landlord that is in possession of your security deposit may not be a good idea!

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This is long, sorry. until the last week, i have been living in a home, that i was renting from a previous co-worker. my total tenancy has been slightly over 1 year. we'll call him bob. in turn, he was renting the house as a whole, from a third party. subleasing, i think is the term for what he was doing. bob has several other renters beside myself, as well. i did have a verbal contract with him, in regards to the amount due each month, but no terms in regards to when to pay, how, or any terms in regards to when the agreement would end. lately, his behavior has been irratic, sometimes violent, and the overall living conditions of the house are just unpleasant. teenagers are permitted to come to the property and smoke pot, even though they have no relation to any of the occupants. underage drinking, late parties with no concern towards any of the renters, etc. he controls the temperature, and will leave the heat or ac off in the main house, because he has a seperate heater/ac in his room. the controls to the main house, he has under a locked cover. when i spoke with him about potentially moving out, i gave him 27 days notice (move out date of april 8). i didn't realize at the time that the law requires 30? either way, his response was that if i was moving out, i had to be out on the 1st, or that he would require me to pay all the rent for april. we also reached an agreement that certain furniture (bed and desk) would be his after i was finished moving out, if left behind. situation got worse, so my girlfriend and i moved out on the 23rd. my bed and desk were still there, but i hadn't decided if i was going to get them or not. on the 25th, he listed them for sale on craigslist, without mentioning it to me. i had also told him that my original move out date of the 8th was chosen because i would nto have money for the rent (for march), due to apartment move-in costs. he refused, saying i was already several weeks late, even though we never had any agreement about a specific payment time frame. throughout my tenancy, there has never been any issues with me paying on any specific day, or even being late a month, as long as i catch up. which i always have. all payments have been in cash, as well. my questions are this: 1.given that his decision was to have me out on the 1st, and we both agreed on that, does the 30 day rule/law still apply? if he takes me to court, for example, would he be able to use that against me, since he is the one that specified a move out date? 2. i have still not paid him for march, and am wondering if i would have any defense in regards to needing to breach the contract due to duress? to include details such as him selling my property without my consent. thanks!

I wouldn't worry about it. I suspect that he may not even have the legal right to sublet, as he has nothing but verbal contracts with the lot of you. While they can be legally binding, they are hard to prove or disprove in a court of law. But if he does not have the right to sublet, then he cannot sue you, as your contract with him would not be legally binding. The whole thing sounds fishy to me - underage drinking and teenage pot smokers allowed free rein? Typically, the 30 day rule applies to whole months. You would need to inform someone on March 1st that you want to be out on April 1st to avoid paying April rent. If the landlord can get the place rented out, then they will waive that requirement, but technically you are on the hook for both March and April when you do not give notice until March 12th.

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I would like to know what is the law if landlord and tenant don't have the rental agreement? what is the rights for both sides? tenant lived with landlord more than 2 years and they didn’t have any rental agreement. but tenant paid all rent and utility payments. at the end of last year landlord moved from the house and left tenant in his house. tenant lived in this house without any rental agreement, but he took care of the house and paid rent + utilities, even took care of landlord property (like cleaning outside, inside, moved lawn and etc). all utilities and house are in landlord name. tenant owes some money for couple months. all calculations are in excel file what tenant owes to landlord, but there no witnesses or lawyer confirmation for this list. landlord send by email 30 days notice, he is planning to sell his house and tenant suppose to move out. what are the rights of tenant and landlord in this situation? do you know where i could find the florida statelaw for my situation? tenant wants to know what is his rights and he will pay all payments what he owes for rent! if florida is an extremely landlord friendly state, so how is with these landlords who is trying to use their tenants like charging wrong amounts for utilities and etc.? florida state is friendly with that too?

As I said before, in absence of a lease, the state of Florida creates one for you...this is call a "month to month" tenancy or a "tenancy at will". Check your local laws. Anyhow, absence of a written lease the landlord is only required to give you 15 days notice to vacate, so be grateful he/she is giving you 30. BTW...the landlord has every right to sue you for back rent. Sounds like you think you have some sort of right to stay there, rent free, since there is no lease. Not the case. Florida is an EXTREMELY landlord friendly state and evictions can be obtained in a matter of days.