If the tenant is a month-to-month tenant, or this is sixty days notice before the end of the lease term, the tenant's ability to fight the termination of tenancy is very limited. If the tenant is in a rent controlled community, the landlord's ability to evict without cause is restricted, but there are ways around the restriction. If the tenant has recently reported the landlord to a government agency for problems in the rental property, there may be a defense to the eviction as being retaliatory.

The tenant may discuss the full facts with an attorney who represents tenants in eviction actions, but in most cases should anticipate that the tenancy will end.