Month-To-Month Tenancy After Breakup
My question involves a roommate in the State of: California
My girlfriend and I were both named on a month-to-month lease agreement in the State of California. I paid the security deposit, rent, and utilities because she has no job. After 3 days of living in the new place, she decides she is done with the relationship. A few days later, she expresses her desire to remain living there. Then she starts bringing a new guy there, more weird stuff, etc. Now I am paying rent on a place and begging people to let me sleep on their couch because I just don't want to be there. Is it possible for me to give my 30 day notice without her consent and get my deposit back? And if so does the landlord have to allow her to stay living there if she doesn't want to move out? The best thing would be if we could both move out so that the landlord can rent it out to normal people, especially since I know the landlord on a personal basis.
Re: Month-To-Month Tenancy After Breakup
Your lease is with your landlord, not your girlfriend. You are free to give notice to your landlord; I can't read your lease from here, so I don't know what it says will happen if only one of the two co-tenants gives notice while the other wants to stay. (Feel free to fill us in.) Read this.
Your landlord can also give the two of you notice that he's ending the lease; if you and he are friends, maybe he'll do that to help you resolve the situation.