If you voluntarily accepted the $ (e.g. by depositing a check received from the tenant), then you have waived the termination notice, and...

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You should have grounds to sue both the offending neighbor (seeking damages and/or and injunction, on grounds of nuisance), and the landlord...

You may well have grounds to rescind the lease under Civil Code Section 1689 on grounds of fraud and at least partial failure of consideration, and...

Retaliation is always a matter of intent, and the court generally can't determine factual disputes/make evidentiary findings in the context of a...

I assume that the co-resident was added to the lease at your request. If so, the landlord certainly can't be faulted for requiring the co-tenant to...

Unless the landlord was terminating for an illegal reason (e.g. because of your disability), your disability would not normally be a defense to an...

If you gave proper notice that you were not going to extend/renew the co-tenancy, and you moved out/turned in the keys by the termination date, you...

Unlawful detainers are summary proceedings, and the court could only consider the unlawful/criminal activity IF that somehow created a legal...

No - such retaliation would violate Civil Code Section 1942.5, giving you both a defense to the eviction, and a claim for damages against the...

Civil Code Section 1947.3 provides in relevant part: "a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a landlord or a landlord's agent shall allow a...