Lease About to Expire, Landlord Agreed to Renew but Has Not Sent New Paperwork
My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: California
I am renting a house in California, and the lease is set to expire at the end of this month (less than two weeks left now). The landlord and I agreed several months ago that we would renew the lease for another year. We negotiated the terms by email and over the phone. She said that she would mail me a new lease to sign.
She has not yet sent me the new lease, so I called her last week and left a friendly voice message asking for an update. She hasn't responded yet. I want to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she just lost track of the time and is now scrambling to draft the new lease. Or maybe she's on vacation and isn't checking her messages. I plan to try calling again if I don't hear from her soon.
But if I can't reach her, and she doesn't call me back, what are my rights and responsibilities? Or if she tells me that she changed her mind about continuing the lease, or her new terms are different than what we agreed on? Is she obligated to give us notice if she wants us to move out, especially since we have an agreement?
Re: Lease About to Expire, Landlord Agreed to Renew but Has Not Sent New Paperwork
If you do not receive a new lease or a notice to move then you become a month to month tenant under the terms of the old lease. Hopefully you will get a new lease with the new terms soon. Keep trying to get in touch with the landlord. Write a letter, e-mail, and telephone. Do all 3.