You have a right as an owner to enforce the CC & Rs, including as to the carpeting/rug requirement. Depending on the facts, you may also have a...

Access to a functioning bathroom is a basic habitability requirement, and I suppose that the tenant/lodger could also argue that the problem was...

Until the lease expires, your financial obligations would be set by the lease. Your rights after the lease expires would depend on whether the...

The CC & Rs would normally have been recorded, and would have been referenced in your pre-purchase title report and other documents. If so, you...

A termination notice would normally apply to subtenants, especially if the notice was addressed broadly (e.g. "To Joe Blow and all other persons in...

There is no such thing as a valid one day eviction notice. The landlord could try to serve a 3 day notice to quit based on nuisance, but is...

I'm sorry you are experiencing this. The owner plainly has no right to make such a false report to the USPS, and I assume you have complained...

Assuming you were not responsible for the overflow, then you should have grounds to terminate your lease (if any) without penalty under Civil Code...

I suggest complaining to the local code enforcement agency. However, although the agency may well cite the landlord for the other issues, state law...

Possibly. If the tenancy is not subject to an eviction control law, then the landlord can probably demand a new co-signer. If the tenancy is...