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    Default When Do You Have to Pay Relocation Assistance to a Tenant

    A homeowner in California owns a business and had a relative stay in his home while the relative worked for the business. The relative did not pay rent, and lived in a converted garage that is part of the home, but functions as an independent apartment -- it has a kitchenette and bathroom. When the homeowner and the relative went out of town to work on a job, the business owner's family heard noise in the relative's room and investigated. They discovered that he had allowed his sister to move in.

    When she refused to leave, they filed an eviction action against her. She has countersued, claiming that she is entitled to relocation assistance because the garage space was improperly converted without a permit, and is not a legal rental unit. Can she succeed in getting relocation assistance?

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    Default Re: When Do You Have to Pay Relocation Assistance to a Tenant

    Despite the problems with the unit, if in fact she did not have permission from the homeowner to live in the unit, she entered based only on the authority of a non-rent-paying house guest, the homeowner did not know she was there until the day she was asked to leave, and she never paid a penny of rent, as long as the court accepts that version of events she was not a tenant and is not entitled to any relocation assistance.

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