My question involves an eviction in the state of: California
This involves a commercial building in an area zoned residential.
The short and sweet of it is that back in May my core group of constituents partnered with some other people we didn't know that well. Without getting into all the particulars let's just say those people sucked and caused a lot of problems so in a meeting with the landlord regarding some of the issues we just agreed to start vacating the building.
Surprise surprise some of the individuals started squatting. Not paying etc. etc. etc. Wouldn't leave. After months of this the landlord is understandably at their end with the City coming down on them (and me as the renter) for having people living in the commercial building. The city has also posted a notice to vacate.
Either way, my group has been out of the building since May and we received a 30 day notice to vacate on the 5th of July. We didn't panic because we were already in the process of evicting the people who wouldn't leave. However the process is taking longer than expected (as most anyone doing an eviction for the first time finds out) and the Sheriff won't get to the actually removal process until at least the 6th of August.
How does this work? Do we still get evicted since we are, admittedly, the catalysts for those people being there in the first place? Sure would suck to get evicted from a building I'm not even occupying simply because the law allows others to squat relatively easily.
What's a good avenue to protect myself?

