[quote=PCinSD][quote=flu][quote=PCinSD][quote=HLS][quote=PCinSD]No idea what part of town you’re in. But if you rent in the city of San Diego your landlord can’t simply terminate your lease. They must have very specific reasons like failing to pay rent, breaching terms of agreement, doing something illegal, etc.[/quote]
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A landlord can’t terminate a lease outside the city either, it’s not limited to ‘the city of San Diego’
In this case the OP doesn’t have a lease.
A month to month agreement can be terminated with 60 days notice without any reason.
Is there something special going on in San Diego ?[/quote]
It’s unlikely that a landlord will simply terminate a lease for the sake of terminating a lease. BUT there is nothing stopping the landlord for want to charge more for the rental, especially in this market. If a tenant is on a month to month lease or requests to renew a lease, there’s nothing saying the landlord cannot increase the rent price (bringing it up to market price or more if he/she/they wanted to).
The rules are 30 days notice for rent increases 10% or less and 60 days notice for rent increases more than 10%.
This is where it becomes a balancing act as a tenant. If your landlord is charging a below market rent price, there’s probably a reason for that: he/she/they doesn’t want to be hassled for every little thing that goes wrong, or everything that makes your property slightly less than say a higher end rental. While a smart landlord would want to know about things that are pretty serious (IE water leaks, etc), they probably don’t want a habitual complainer about every little thing that goes wrong, and that’s probably why there’s a PM in the middle even if that PM is overreacting to everything. (Again, I’m not suggesting the OP was a PITA…)
But there’s probably some correlation to what a landlord’s perceived PITA factor of an existing tenant is to what he/she/they wants to do with the next term’s rent price.
This happened to one of coworkers just a few weeks ago. The tenant made a fuss to him about an old dishwasher that was functionally fine, but was just old and looked worn out and was louder than the ones these days. The person pays $300/month less than average rent prices and was on a month to month lease. And he kept complaining about the dishwasher being too loud, and sending email, leaving messages on the phone. My coworker finally got fed up with it and replaced the dishwasher….And then gave him 30 days notice of a $150/month rent price increase, since the tenant was month to month.
So I guess, in a tight rental market, pick your battles wisely. If the tables were reversed, and we had a huge supply of rentals, the opposite would be the case in which a lot of tenants would end up being a pain in the ass and be demanding every concession as well, probably. It’s just how the markets work.[/quote]
I’m aware of a landlords ability to increase rent. I was responding to HLS’s question about a specific law in San Diego, which he was unaware of.[/quote]
Regardless, the OP is on month-month and isn’t on a lease. He probably opted out of renewing it, so it doesn’t seem like the landlord needs to extend a new lease anyway…
