My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: California
We have lived in the same apartment for 7 years. Our lease will be up in a month, so we got our normal notice on Oct. 1, 2009 letting us know the new rates for signing a new lease. However, at the end of the notice, it said that effective August 1, 2009 (Yes, retroactively) we would be billed for our share of the property's overall trash removal costs.
I have a few problems with this. As stated in our lease that ends Oct. 31, the apts. pay for garbage. It even states in our utilities addendum that if they want to begin charging us for a new utility we MUST receive it in writing 60 days prior. How can this be 60 days prior when they are charging for Aug+ and we just now received notice? They are saying that we will be signing a new lease, and it will be on that lease... well, I'm ok with it if we start getting charged beginning in November when our new lease is signed, but from August?? I don't think that's legal, and if I get charged this month, I believe they will be breaking our contract that hasn't ended yet since we did not receive notice in writing 60 days prior.
Any thoughts?

