Mrs Scuba
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Posted: Mar. 30 2004,7:31 pm |
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Here's a little info I found on the web, hopefully it will help you.
Read your lease carefully. It may explain what you must do. For example, the lease may have an "automatic-renewal" clause. This means that if you are planning to move, you must tell the owner before the lease runs out. The clause applies to the owner as well; he or she also must ask you to move before the lease ends. Otherwise, the lease will be renewed for the same period of time as the original agreement.
Note: Automatic-renewal clauses cannot be enforced unless they are printed in bold type as large as this.
What if you have a six-month or one-year lease, but no automatic-renewal clause? If you pay rent monthly and the owner accepts your rent after the lease is up, the agreement is automatically renewed on a month-to-month basis. Your lease may not be a standard six-month or one-year agreement. Instead, it may specify a particular ending date. In this case, you can stay in the apartment past that date on a month-to-month basis if the owner accepts your rent payment.
CAN MY RENT BE RAISED? It depends. In a rental agreement, your landlord can raise your rent any amount if he/she gives you written notice. The length of the notice time must be at least as long as the period between your rental payments. For example, for a month to month rental, the notice cannot be less than 30 days. If you have a lease, your landlord cannot raise your rent unless there is a provision for this in the lease agreement. (Sec. 827 of CC) Rent control ordinances exist in some areas of California. Check with your local supervisor or city council representative for more information about rent control ordinances. Written notice. The landlord has to give us 30 days written notice. This does not mean any 30 days, but 30 days before the end of a rental period. For most of us this is the 1st, but if for some reason you rent from 10th to 10th, for example, then you should be notified 30 days before the 10th. If you rent from 1st to 1st and you get a notice on August 8th raising your rent, then it doesn't go in to effect until October 1st.
Many of us have rent due on the 1st but payable on the 5th (that is to say, we have a 5 day grace period written into our contract). If this is the case you have the right to receive the notice 30 days before the 1st, not the 5th. If your lease is expiring and the landlord is going to raise your rent, they need to tell you 30 days before your rent expires.  
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7-02-2026 Three Word Post.....The Next Generation.... (Rep.#20,222) from: GoFastRacer
 Toss in the tax breaks that go along with home ownership and you come out lotsa $$ ahead. 
That will usually squash any problems. LOL 
I just hope your situation works out more smoothly. 
To think they could actually mesh with us..............you me all the way! Delusion will post later......I just have to get his tired stressed out ass off of the sofa again for the third night now! 
