What kind of California Tenant Protection Options Do I Have?
California tenant laws apply mostly to apartment units and not houses, things like LA rent control don’t apply to SFR (Houses and Condo’s). Oral contracts for real estate are valid only if the terms are less then 30 days; so with the cashed checks you can establish that you rent the house and you are tenants but either you or the landlord can give 30 day notice to end the month to month tenancy. Landlords must give 24 hour notice to demand entrance inside the house, if he asks to enter with out notice you can deny him. You also have the right to ‘peaceful use of the property’ which is kind of vague but the idea is to keep a landlord from harassing a tenant; as an example giving you a 24hr notice to enter every day. But the real issue is your on a month to month tenancy, the landlord can ask you to move with a 30 day notice at anytime if he is pissed off at you and you have no real recourse unless he commits a real crime like assault and battery against you. As for the lawn, you rent th
