Aside from the expense, what you might lose is the ability to rent an apartment elsewhere. Companies like CoreLogic SafeRent are used by building owners and managers to screen prospective tenants. Obviously, they’re going to look for things like non-payment of rent. But I suspect that being considered a problem tenant is also going to hurt in the apartment search.
Do you have a lease? If so, it probably contains a section detailing what constitutes grounds for eviction, and may also specify an address where legal notices are to be sent. Start there. Assuming you aren’t behind in rent or anything.
In the OP’s shoes, I either:
Am flabbergasted, stuttering, “but. . .what. .why. .omygod, I don’t believe this. Why???.”
Or
Sigh, " so, y’all have a security camera somewhere by the laundry room, huh?"
You lingerie-fondler, you.
Pre or post wash?
I must admit that my BS detector is going off on this, because it seems off to me that a long time, and presumably good, tenant would be asked to leave without an explanation of any kind. I also get the impression that this is unique to the OP’s apartment and not the whole building, or I imagine the manager would have stated that as part of a “no hard feelings” kind of thing. I think there must be some past history between the OP and the manager/owners we aren’t hearing here.
Either way, if I was an owner and you called me to “go over the manager’s head” I can tell you that would fail 100 times out of 100 unless the manager was doing it without my knowledge, and I’d be very surprised if that was the case. Even then, as the owner, if I trusted the manager, I would take their word over yours as to why they wanted you out and I would still not rule in your favor. The best I think you can do under the circumstances would be to try and at least get a good recommendation from the manager when you rent your new place by being super nice to them. Talk of lawsuits and other measures of desperation will only result in disaster in my opinion and are ill advised.
Yikes, it reads that way. I was just thinking the most likely place in the building for something to happen…
Exactly what I thought.
The problem is, right now he’s being asked to leave, if he did that eviction proceedings would start and then he’ll never be a lot harder to get another apartment.
People check into your rental history when you’re renting? Can they do that?
Of course they can. Especially as they specifically ask you about your rental history when you seek to rent an apartment or house.
I’ve mentioned a quite a few times I’m in the real estate business and have reason to be somewhat familiar with residential leasing laws and standards (only in Virginia–and not that familiar, it’s not primarily what we do.) While my knowledge is specific to Virginia, which has fairly liberal (meaning non-restrictive for the owner) tenancy laws I know from my research into other markets some States and regions are very different.
For example some States, once you’ve lived in a resident a certain amount of time you cannot be evicted without cause. In addition to common causes like non-payment of rent and breaking the terms of the tenancy, the other causes are usually limited to things like the building being torn down and replaced because it’s been sold, or you’ve been renting a residence that the owner wants to take personal possession of and use as a primary residence etc. In some States even tearing down the building isn’t an easy way to get long term tenants out, and I’ve heard of major real estate developments coming to a screeching halt because of elderly tenants basically refusing to move and not being interested in various enticements.
After talking to the property manager do a little bit of research into what the law says about long term tenants and evictions.
Rental laws are very State and even city specific in some cases and can be heavily or almost unregulated. In many places they can and do require you to give:
-credit history
-consent to a criminal background check
-employment and income verification
-all prior addresses and rentals [and with the background check if they find any you didn’t list, you may be rejected as an applicant to live in the residence]
They can call previous landlords as well as check your court records. Also, if the landlord reported to any of the major credit bureaus I’d assume an eviction would be listed there (but I don’t know if they report to them).
Regardless of what previous landlords say or if it’s on your credit report if it ends up in the court system (and an eviction is a legal process) it’s public information. In most states it’s available online for all to see.
While I suggested the OP look it up themselves, I did a small amount of research. It appears at the State level in California, the default is that a land lord can end a month-to-month tenancy (I’m assuming this is month-to-month as long term tenancies tend to convert to month to month instead of perpetual rolling annual leases as a matter of common business practice) with 60 days written notice, 30 days written notice if the month to month tenancy has been less than one year in duration.
So it appears the land lord is availing themselves of the option to unilaterally end the tenancy at their discretion, as is their right under California law (and in most States, although some big cities and certain States as I mentioned are much more restrictive.)
The California Dept of Consumers Affairs website does go on to mention that in California, tenancy issues are also regulated at the municipal and local level. Meaning, you may have more protections than the State laws in California, so it’d be worth it to look into Anaheim’s rental regulations.
TLDR…go to to your local Housing Authority, but they’re probably going to tell you you’re SOL.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the impression I got when I poked around on the Nolo website. :mad:
The complex has about 100 units in a garden apartment/townhouse arrangement (letter-designated buildings with 4 units each). AFAIK, this is not a wholesale action.
I concede that I do not have a cordial relationship with the manager, although it has remained civil. I really don’t want to get into personalities here, so I won’t try to delineate my attempts to make it more cordial. I’d just like to assert that I have not been a “problem tenant,” and any attempts to make it appear that I have been would need to be constructed by someone with a strong motivation to make me seem like one (“working toward a predetermined conclusion,” that is).
My point is that since the manager is herself an employee, there should be a mechanism by which I as a tenant am able to notify her superiors that her job performance vis a vis me is not producing optimal results for the business. I had hoped that I could make use of such a mechanism to make my case for reversing the action.
I’ve also done some poking around in the “For Rent” websites, and at first glance, it looks like if I want a similar apartment (I do), it will not be feasible to remain in Anaheim (screwing with kayla’s ability to remain at her school).
I assume she’s in a public school and I heard someone say she’s a senior, so this is usually the type of situation where if you have to move out of the city you just have your mail forwarded and don’t tell the school you moved. You’d be surprised how many people just use relative’s address so they can take their kid to a neighboring city’s public school.
You’re not even doing that, your just moving (after enrollment) and no one will be the wiser and she’s certainly old enough that if she needs to write down her address on anything ‘official’ that she should use her old address.
On the contrary. If the place is not going up for sale, then you are almost certainly being told to GTFO so they can significantly raise the rent. In that respect, the manager is looking after the owner’s best interests. By being under a month-to-month lease, you have been under a sword of Damocles all along without realizing it. I’ve never been in a month-to-month situation for more than a couple weeks (landlord slacking on writing up a new year lease) until the start of last month, when their delayed renewal ended with them handing over a month-to-month and notification that they were putting that property and next door up in front of the zoning committee, so they can merge the lots into one and sell the property as teardowns. This resulted in the two tenants on our lot giving notice within one week (the other tenant) and three weeks (us). (It’s probably going to take months to finish all the legal hurdles, much less sell.)
AFAIK, Anaheim doesn’t have any rent control provisions that restrain them from raising my rent at will. In fact, I’m a little mystified that they haven’t done it at all for at least the past five years. But in the years prior to that, while my family was receiving Section 8 subsidies, the rent went up several times over the course of about five years.
I can’t believe you still haven’t walked over to the management office and asked why you are being evicted. Aren’t you curious? You seem more interested in where she got the boiler-plate form from (this nolo.com you mentioned) than in asking the one person who can tell you why, why!