# Any legal construct to make it easier to remove a long-term guest from your home?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-legal-construct-to-make-it-easier-to-remove-a-long-term-guest-from-your-home/692114>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 1, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-legal-construct-to-make-it-easier-to-remove-a-long-term-guest-from-your-home/692114 "2014-07-01T17:26:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-legal-construct-to-make-it-easier-to-remove-a-long-term-guest-from-your-home/692114/41 "2014-07-04T00:37:33Z")

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> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Fart a lot.

> [@Mr.Nylock](#):
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> Sure you could do all those things, but **they would all be illegal in almost any state** , you would be sued and likely lose (emphasis added).

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

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**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-legal-construct-to-make-it-easier-to-remove-a-long-term-guest-from-your-home/692114/42 "2014-07-24T14:09:04Z")

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Recent story about long-term guests that won’t leave:

[‘Professional scammers’ refuse to leave Airbnb host’s house](http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/23/travel/airbnb-squatters/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)

Airbnb is a service where you rent out spare rooms to guests. In this case, the guests stayed for 30 days and now refuse to leave. In California, renters who occupy a property for more than 30 consecutive days are considered full-time tenants on a month-to-month lease with rights to occupancy protected under the state’s tenant law.

The original agreement was for a 44-day period but the scammers only paid for the first 30 days and then stopped paying. Why doesn’t that initial agreement of 44-days supersede the month-to-month conversion? Essentially, it seems they had a 44-day lease, which they broke by not paying. What’s to stop any California renter from swatting after the lease is up?

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