Walk It Through: The New Rent Letter
A rent increase on a month to month lease, sixty days' notice, one hundred twenty for an older tenant, and thirty to leave.
A month to month tenant, retired and well past sixty-two, gets a letter raising the rent next month.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A rent increase on a month to month lease. Fixed term leases, subsidized housing rules and assisted living facilities are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Periodic tenancyA tenancy that renews by the week, month or year. It ends on written notice of ten days, thirty days or three months.
- Retaliatory conductA rent increase, cut in services or eviction because a tenant complained or organized. Within six months of a complaint it is presumed.
- Self help evictionA landlord taking possession without a court, by changing locks or cutting services. The tenant may recover three months' rent or three times the damages.