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    Question Roommate Making It Difficult to Show Room and Vacate

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


    Hi,

    I've got a roommate that was the previous head of household on the house which is s 5br 3b and we had found out that he was screwing people for rent and not paying the utilities on time, so we asked him to leave, he gave some fight to it and claimed he would have us kicked out instead however next day he gave the landlord his 30 days notice once the landlord showed up to the house the very next day the confronation occured.

    Since then he has made no attempt in helping us fill the room and letting us show it, keeping the room locked and will not return to the house since staying at a friends house since he gave his notice. Now the issue is its close to the end of the lease and I know he has the right to hold the room till the end of the lease and what not and we gave him a notice that we will be cleaning the garage out of courtesy and if there is anything out there we will make sure to take care of it nicely and place it aside or in the front room where currently his other items remain. He has spoken with the landlord about us moving his items around and the landlord wants nothing to do with the issue however he is threatening legal issues based on tenant rights about us moving his items around in a common area of the house, is it possible for him to do anything about this or is it more him just in attempt to continue making it hard on everyone for his move out? Any advice will be greatly appreciated

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    Default Re: Roommate Making It Difficult to Show Room and Vacate

    who all is on the lease?

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    Default Re: Roommate Making It Difficult to Show Room and Vacate

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    who all is on the lease?
    Everyone that lives in the house

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    Default Re: Roommate Making It Difficult to Show Room and Vacate

    well, since you are a tenant, you have no legal right to demand access to his room. Only a landlord has that right.

    to moving things around; if they are in a common area, there is nothing that he can do about it as long as you do not damage anything.

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    Default Re: Roommate Making It Difficult to Show Room and Vacate

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    well, since you are a tenant, you have no legal right to demand access to his room. Only a landlord has that right.

    to moving things around; if they are in a common area, there is nothing that he can do about it as long as you do not damage anything.

    Oh yeah for sure, I wasnt asking for access to his room at all, just move the things around from the garage to get it out of the way to make room in there for the other new people coming into the house this year.

    Although he's changed his mind about 6 different times about when he is officially leaving but now he's saying he's going to hold the rights to the room till the end of the lease just to make it harder on everyone else including the new tenants that are supposed to move in there since they have to be out of their place on the 1st but im sure something will be worked out in their regard

    Only other problem is though, if he doesnt allow us to show the room we cant fill it unless they go on blind faith which is where the landlord would have to come in and get him to open the room to be shown because it will be breaking into his money and our obligations to fill the room

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