Background information:

1. 1 acre empty parcel used by friend of the landlord to house his horses and run his horse training business.
2. never met the landlord. his friend aquire authorization to use his property free of charge for his business.
3. friend hired my services to care for his horses in echange for reduced prices on my horse care services and living on site in my own trailer.
4. Services to be rendered: 2 feedings daily 1 cleaning of stalls daily at $100.00/horse for the first 3 horses belonging to the friend and $50.00/add'l horses and $100.00 for additional horses in training from friends clients.
5. Average pay $400.00/month
6. In echange friends allows me to live on premises and house my 2 personal horses.
7. Original verbal agreement with NO LEASE or RENTAL AGREEMENT neither from the friend nor from the landlord whom I never met!

Past situation information:

Services of friend horses has been MON-FRI. However since I live on site I have been servicing his horses extra for free: additional stall cleaning, feeding on weekends and hollidays for free unless he could come to do it himself.

Current situation:

Now that I have more outside work to attend other stables, I reduced my services to what was originally agreed upon (2 feedings/1 cleaning week days). Beside no one can survive on a $400.00 pay/month. That is why I am sertvicing other clients.

He is now frustrated and has been spoiled for receiving all that extra services free of charge. I suggested he pays me extra (25.00/weekend) for attending his horses on weekends. He refused and think that he is entitled to my services 24/7 at no extra charge. Since I did not agree. He gave me 1 month notice to move out.

Question:

Does he has any rights over me to ask me to vacate the premises since he is not the landlord. He claims that he has a lease with the landlord. Do I have the right to see the lease; and if he has no lease why should I vacate when he is not the landlord.

Does this situation makes me a tenant or a squater? What are my rights so I can extend my stay as long as possible. Can he take all my belongings out of the property, on the street side and change the gate lock? and if he chooses to do that what are my recourses? Can you give me the eviction time line from start to finish?

LisaB4657

The friend is the tenant and has sublet the space to you. So they are a sublandlord and you are his subtenant on a month-to-month basis (since you don't have a written lease). That means that he has the right to give you notice to end the tenancy and to have you evicted if you don't leave by the end of the notice period. He is not allowed by law to lock you out without a legal eviction and if he does so you can contact the police to force him to let you back in. He is not required to give you more than 30 days notice but maybe if you speak to him you can make an agreement for a little more time.