Your landlord may have died, but your lease is still alive and well, and will stay alive and well until it expires in 4 years. New ownership won't...

Your landlord may have died, but your lease is still alive and well, and will stay alive and well until it expires in 4 years. New ownership won't...

Are oral amendments to a lease legally binding?

An oral amendment to a contract is binding, but notoriously hard to enforce if one person decides they don't like the modification any more. If...

Commerical Lease. Being evicted after the new landlord wants to change the terms

The new owner cannot kick you out with no notice. He has to post a notice stating the cause for the eviction, and then file an unlawful detainer...

I am a landlord who found out tenants are drug dealers

You not only have the right, but you have the duty, to evict tenants who are dealing drugs out of your building. You will need to hire an...

As a business can the landlord lock my shop because of unpaid rent

No. The landlord can never take matters into his own hands and lock up your property. To do that, he needs to serve you with a proper notice and...

Questions on breaking a lease and getting our security deposit back due to the incidents listed below?

You should move immediately before you get burglarized and shot too. The landlord will probably keep your security deposit, but the property is...

Who is responsible to fumigate my apartment if it has roaches..the landloard or us?

It is the law that the landlord has to keep the premises "substantially free of" cockroaches. Civil Code sections 1941 and 1941.1. The other...

Breaking and entering ? into a property im purchasing.

If the tenant left the residence unlocked, and agreed your inspector could come into the unit, I don't see a problem. Next time, however, get the...

Landlord trying to blame me a dryer not being properly ventilated

The landlord is responsible to inspect his own building and make repairs where necessary. The improper venting is the landlord's fault and the...