Homeowner serves 30 day notice to quit
The homeowner of the house where I live in California has just served me a 30 day notice to quit. I have lived in the home for 5 years. During that time I have designed and remodeled the entire interior, including the kitchen and 3 bathrooms, I designed and landscaped both front and back yards of the exterior, as well as cleaning and maintaining the interior and exterior areas. During that time I have contributed to paying 1/2 of the utilities, (water,cable,internet,trash,gas,electric and sewer), contributed to purchasing all the household groceries and all household supplies, I also paid for all of the homeowners pet food and necessities, including taking care of the animals (a cat and a dog). To top it off I paid out of my pocket, keeping the receipts and logging everything for all materials & supplies while performing the labor myself on all home improvement projects. The homeowner suggested I pay for his personal home phone as well, but I had my own phone and didn't think it was fair. This was 4 years ago when he told me I didn't pay rent, I told him to let me know what rent chgs. Were and I'd stop doing all I was responsible for. He wouldn't ever tell me. I'm recently out of work and all the money I had went in to the home improvements of his house. He has a new roommate that moved in and another in waiting. Both males, they are to pay $500.00 each. Includes utilities and no household responsibilities or additional costs whatsoever. I gave the homeowner a copy of everything I had done the last 5 years and the total of what it cost me, then I compared those costs to had I been paying $500.00 a month rent instead. The difference was substantially in my favor. Not including the hours I put in to accomplish these projects and maintenance, he owes me approx. $31,000.00. He says he'll give me $500.00 if I move right away. His home is completed and absolutely beautiful. I don't want to make it easy for him to do this to me at such a bad time for me and without paying me. Does anyone have suggestions or advise. What's a girl to do? There is not any relationship issues with one another and never has been.
Comment on ScottGem's post
Thank you Scott for your input. You are correct, I do not have a signed lease. However, we did do a lot together as friends. We also had our auto ins. Combined, (I paid for mine separately) so that he could take advantage of mulltple discounts, I had him on my auto ins as the only person allowed to drive my car, and also on on my AAA acct. so in case anything happened to his vehicle. For years he tried to get me in the sack but once our friends told him it was not going to happen, he finally accepted the idea. But at the same time, I think he knew all along what he was doing as far as making me pay for not sleeping with him and took advantage of my eperience in home improvements as he continued using me to do all the work around the house and once the work was completed wouldn't offer me an option to rent and told me he would pay someone to do the upkeep and maintenance that I had been doing. It's almost like discrimination, he won't pay me and won't rent me a room. Come back.
Comment on LisaB4657's post
Does this law require a signed lease? I can't find anything on no lease aggreements. I never signed one. Had I slept with the man, things would be different. But 5 years as a resident now, I should have some kind of rights.
Comment on joypulv's post
I plan on it. But do I really have 60 days with no signed lease? I've only got a 30 day that says I must forfeit the rental agreement I don't even have.