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    Default How to Renew or Extend a Lease

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: California

    We own a duplex where we live in the front and are currently renting the back unit on a lease. The current tenant wishes to renew the lease (which currently ends on the 14th of this month). They are very good tenants and we would like to extend (not sure of the correct terminology) the lease. My wife used to work for a property management firm and she understands that to properly renew the lease, the tenants must move all of their belongings out of the unit for a period of 24 hours so that we can inspect the unit and then provide them with a new lease. Is their a simplier way to extend their lease and still protect ourselves?

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    Default Re: How to Renew or Extend a Lease

    Your wife's former employer was crazy.

    If you want to inspect for damages, by all means inspect for damages before renewing.

    Read your lease. Does it include a provision for automatic extension or renewal of the lease at the end of the initial term? If so, and the specified outcome is satisfactory, you may not need to do anything. If the lease goes "month-to-month" and you want to renegotiate for a one year term, you can ask the tenants to sign a new lease for the one year term.

    If you're looking at changing the rent, be sure you're in compliance with any governing rent control ordinances.

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