What are my rights as a renter?

[tzdollie]

What is the name of your state?California
We have rented a private residence for 6 years now on a month to month basis, our landlord has just put the house up for sale. What are our rights in the event of the sale? Who has to give us notice to move? It has to be in writing too right?

 

[HomeGuru]

What is the name of your state?California
We have rented a private residence for 6 years now on a month to month basis, our landlord has just put the house up for sale. What are our rights in the event of the sale? Who has to give us notice to move? It has to be in writing too right?

**A: read the CA Civil Code commonly called the Landlord Tenant Law.

 

[JETX]

What are our rights in the event of the sale? Who has to give us notice to move? It has to be in writing too right?

You really have none. Your only rights as a month-to-month tenant are 30 days written notice. This notice can come from the current owner (as a buyers requirement for an empty property), or can come from the new owner after he/she takes ownership of the property.

 

[BSJM]

The landlord also has the right to enter the property with 24 hour written notice to show it to prospective buyers.

 

[tzdollie]

renters rights

Okay then I understand it to be that the current owner of the house is required to submit to me a 30 notice to move out, prior to the close of escrow in order for the new owners to move in after it closes. Or if the current owners do not then when escrow closes the new owners need to submit a 30 day notice to move right? At this point in time the current owners have only told us verbally and we have been here to show the house and be here for the different people such as the appraiser and such to come by..

 

[HomeGuru]

Okay then I understand it to be that the current owner of the house is required to submit to me a 30 notice to move out, prior to the close of escrow in order for the new owners to move in after it closes. Or if the current owners do not then when escrow closes the new owners need to submit a 30 day notice to move right?


**A: that's correct except it would not be a 30 day notice.

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At this point in time the current owners have only told us verbally and we have been here to show the house and be here for the different people such as the appraiser and such to come by..

**A: then legally, you have not been legally served any notice to vacate.

 

[tzdollie]

my apologies for being slow grasping all of this, but they you are saying that if the current owners do not give us written notice the new owners are required to. But if not a 30 day notice than usually how long do you get?

 

[HomeGuru]

my apologies for being slow grasping all of this, but they you are saying that if the current owners do not give us written notice the new owners are required to. But if not a 30 day notice than usually how long do you get?

**A: can you please read that which I referenced in my very first post to you?

 

[tzdollie]

I did the best I could to understand what it said, however I do not have the ability to grasp things like this very well. I am sorry that you have lost patience in my questions, this was the only other way that I knew to get some answers to my questions. I do hope that you are not this unkind to others in my position. Thank you for the help that you have provided.

 

[ENASNI]

Sigh...

**A: can you please read that which I referenced in my very first post to you?

Hey Guru...
I wonder if this is going to be one of those days...
Yo tzdollie
http://www.dca.ca.gov/legal/landlordbook/index.html
It is probably one the easiest LL/tenant rule books to read on the internet... and has been referenced a gazillion times on this forum... I think a bazillion just this month...
but I may be exaggerating a tad.

Addedum... so you were posting when I was.
read thread and see if it is clearer.
https://forum.freeadvice.com/showthread.php?t=221450

 

[HomeGuru]

I did the best I could to understand what it said, however I do not have the ability to grasp things like this very well. I am sorry that you have lost patience in my questions, this was the only other way that I knew to get some answers to my questions. I do hope that you are not this unkind to others in my position. Thank you for the help that you have provided.

**A: I did not lose my patience since I have a standing order of patience that I ordered over the internet. I belong to the Patience of the Month Club.
Maybe I am not making myself clear but I want you to read the CA Landlord Tenant Law which Enasni so gratiously provided the link to.

 

[ENASNI]

hey

**A: I did not lose my patience since I have a standing order of patience that I ordered over the internet. I belong to the Patience of the Month Club.
Maybe I am not making myself clear but I want you to read the CA Landlord Tenant Law which Enasni so gratiously provided the link to.

Can you so graciously provide me a link... I think I need that as well.

 

[nolaET]

I was in a similar situation (although my landlord just stuck a for sale sign out front which is how I found out the duplex was for sale, sadly). The people who bought it had some kind of first homeowner deal where they couldn't have tenants and my *** was out on the street. I was month to month (I had been there for years) but the tentants below had a lease. Who's right, the tenant's lease or the homeowners mortage deal? I don't know. The tenants with the lease opted to move out because it wasn't worth the fight. Not great advice but how much time and possibly money do you want to devote to this? It is definitely one of the perils of renting, especially if there is no lease.