California Residential Lease Renewal: Fill & Download for Free

This is not a normal situation for a residential property.In fact, if you are in Florida, it is not legal to have a residential lease longer than two years, period.Typical residential lease terms are for a period of one year.While California does not have a specific statutory limitation, there is absolutely no way I would commit to not raising your rent for a decade, so this is not a lease you would be able to drag out of me, without paying significantly above market rate.Even then, I’d want reassurances that you aren’t terminally ill, given that California has a three year rental disclosure law for deaths in a rental unit, and you dying would significantly depress the amount I could charge for rent.It may be a reasonable thing to do this long a lease with a commercial lease, but only if you can guarantee the lease term; otherwise, you are selling something you do not have the right to sell.Minimally, the contract would be rendered void, in most jurisdictions, and may constitute fraud on your part in representing you have the right to offer renewal to the sublet; certainly in the U.S..The problem is that, despite having an extension clause, it is not a contract to extend, unless agreed to by both parties.

Is the “Eviction Without Cause” issue in Los Angeles becoming a major social and political issue that is contributing to the homeless situation there?NoIn LA like all of California, residential leases automatically renew unless the tenant decides they want to leave. Landlords cannot terminate a tenancy without a “No Fault Eviction.” This increases the total number of evictions filled in court, because these actions in other states would just be “The landlord declines to offer lease renewal.”People who can afford rent do not end up on the street when their landlord chooses not to renew their lease. They just move to a different home/apartment.People who CANNOT afford rent end up homeless. Most frequently they get evicted too, because who sends their last dollar to their landlord and then voluntarily moves into a tent on the street? Most people hard on their luck just stop paying their landlord and wait to get kicked out.

How much time do landlords legally have to give you to move out if you do not want to sign a new lease with a hefty rent increase?Rent increase or not is irrelevant. If you fail to sign a lease renewal for what ever reason, then you tenancy continues on a month to month basis. Laws differ from state to state and even from city to city in some places. But the general rule is that your landlord will need to give you a 30 day notice to vacate. In California if it was a residential lease for a year or more then the landlord must give you 60 days notice. He can serve the notice before the end of the lease or wait until it expires.Experienced landlords will typically send the renewal and expect it back before the 30 or 60 days. I manage over 4,000 apartments and we mail a notice of intent (not a legal requirement) typically 90 days before the end of their lease. This is a notice that lets people know what we expect upon lease renewal and as a reminder that if they want to move out they must give us notice. The new lease will be presented to them about 70 days before end of the lease along with a letter asking them to return a signed copy or come into the office and sign it. If not signed by the 60 days then we do give 60 days notice. If they sign a renewal at any time before the end of the 60 days then there is a new agreement and the 60 day notice is meaningless.If they don’t sign or move out then we start the eviction process.So a landlord must give you 30 or 60 days to move but the start date need not be the end of the lease.