If I want to sell my property in Oakland and there is a tenant living there under a month-to-month lease, is it possible to terminate this lease? I don’t have any other reason to terminate the lease other than I want to sell the property, and it’s much easier to do that without a tenant living there.
Rental Property Investor · Bay Area, CA · Member since 2018 · 29 posts · 15 votes
7y
@DG A. and others - how does protected status factor into all of this? If tenants claim protected status could a new owner not even do an OMI, with relocation payment, documentation, etc...
San Francisco Bay Area · Member since 2015 · 196 posts · 181 votes
7y
if their birthday is on their lease that gets you one. The other is not so simple. I'm learning what it means to house elderly tenants. I would not buy a house with elderly tenants in place again. I've learned a lesson the hard way now that Oakland has eliminated the ability to get to market rate rent as an owner occupied duplex owner.
Rental Property Investor · Bay Area, CA · Member since 2018 · 29 posts · 15 votes
7y
Thanks for the insight. Quick update - looks like there are no leases, but I do have one (and will have the other) estoppel. But to your points, seems like a very tricky one...
Rental Property Investor · Bay Area, CA · Member since 2018 · 29 posts · 15 votes
7y
Spoke to an attorney at Lilac Law in Oakland. They do free 15 minute consultations, which was exactly what I needed for this- - and others may find them useful too.
Words like "I wouldn't touch that with a 10 ft pole" were used...