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The premise of your question is flawed, since "landlord tenant laws," whether seemingly in favor of tenants or not, were not the cause of your predicament. As aptly noted by Dana H. Shultz, it was your actions, or your failure to act, that led to the legal action you were forced to take in order to remove your tenant.While I agree with Dana's list of the mistakes you made, there was one fatal mistake he did not mention. Consider the following from your description:I sent her a notice of my intention not to renew the lease a full two months before the end of the lease. It was at this point she decided to stop paying me all together.A common mistake made by small landlords is sending a notice that a lease will not be renewed, especially to an undesirable tenant. Such notice is not required and only serves to provoke an already disgruntled tenant, which is clearly what occurred here.In the future you should send a notice only if you intend to renew the lease, which notice would be a renewal lease form requesting the tenant's signature. If you do not intend to renew a lease you would not send any notice; you would simply let the lease expire and then re-rent the premises to someone else.

Generally, no.A co-tenant is named as one of the tenants on a lease.Another tenant on the lease can’t kick them out; only the landlord with whom the lease was established can kick them out. In other words their contract is with the landlord, not with the other tenant.Depending on the specific wording of the contract, the landlord may or may not have the power to evict one co-tenant, but not the others — or the landlord must evict them all — or the landlord can choose to not renew the lease for one or more co-tenants, but not others.It’s also possible — but unlikely — that the language of the lease would allow one co-tenant to quit before the others do. What can happen, however, is that at least 30 days prior to the end of the lease, a co-tenant can notify the landlord that they do not intended to renew the lease.So if there are two people, and one of them is a “bad roommate” and the other a “good roommate”, then:The “good roommate” can’t kick the “bad roommate out”The landlord may be able to kick just the “bad roommate” out, if there is causeThe landlord may have to kick both of them out, to be rid of one of themThe “good roommate” can, with sufficient notice (usually statutorily, 30 days — check your lease agreement to be sure) prior to the end of the lease notify the landlord of intent to not renew and move out on the “bad roommate”Otherwise: the “good roommate” is stuck with “the bad roommate”.

If they are still paying rent, they are just not present at the premises.You don’t make it clear that they are not paying rent, only that you are having problems locating them.If the proper amount of rent is paid, and paid on time, then it’s not abandoned. So long as the lease is in force, you can do nothing.Prior to the end of the lease, you may give them a notice of intent to not renew, and if the rent is not paid, you may give them a notice to quit.In California, the amount of notice is based on how long they’ve lived there.But as long as they are paying rent, unless you are paying electricity, and they left all the lights on, or you are paying water, and they left the water running, who cares, as long as the rent is paid?