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Question For Lawyers or Anyone With Direct Knowledge of Lease-Tenant Law
R. Alex Whitlock
My roommate and I are discussing our leasing future and have run across a possible snag.
We are presently on month-to-month lease, which means that there is no lease agreement. Therefore they are free to raise rent or kick us out at any time and we are free to move out at any time (with one month's notice in each case).
Except that according to our slumlandlords, we have to give sixty days notice upon leaving. We never signed any documents stating this nor expressed consent in any written or oral form. As I understand it, the typical thirty-day notice requirement is law.
My question: Do they have a right to request 60 days notice on a month-to-month lease? If they can make up changes like this (it was thirty days notice when we last signed a document), what's the point in having leases and contracts to begin with?
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Obviously, the point is so that they can be spit upon.
What Adam said, except I might modify the second consonant in "spit."
I would think that it would be whatever the last document signed was. And, no way in hell should they be able to ask 60 days notice when you're on an approximately 30-day renewable billing cycle.
I'm with Mike on this one. But, I'd have to check TX laws to make sure that's the case.
(The above-stated information is only the opinion of a law student. It is not intended to be, and should not be construed to be, legal advice. As always, you should consult an attorney...'Cause I'm not going down with you if you do something stupid based on my meager little opinion. haha)
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