Ask Me Help Desk - 30 Day Notice in CA

To explain the situation I have to include a little background. My sister graduated from UC Berkeley this spring. She went out of the country on vacation and I moved into her apartment and enrolled in summer classes as UC Berkeley. Her lease ended but she had said that she will stay here until August 20th. I was the person that was actually going to be living there. She wrote them a notice stating that she will vacate on August 20th and signed the form, it was a 30 or 60 day notice form that they just stated the move out date of August 20th on. I want to only live here for a month, and would like to move out on July 3rd and move to Oregon for the remaining part of the summer.

They rental company said since she stated that she would vacate on August 20th they rented the place from then on and that I would have to pay until then. Do I have to pay until August 20th because she gave them a written notice that she would vacate then, or can I or she give them a 30 day notice that she will now leave on July 3rd?

Rent is due the 1st of the month and is paid monthly.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by brain2448

To explain the situation I have to include a little background. My sister graduated from UC Berkeley this spring. She went out of the country on vacation and I moved into her apartment and enrolled in summer classes as UC Berkeley. Her lease ended but she had said that she will stay here until August 20th. I was the person that was actually going to be living there. She wrote them a notice stating that she will vacate on August 20th and signed the form, it was a 30 or 60 day notice form that they just stated the move out date of August 20th on. I want to only live here for a month, and would like to move out on July 3rd and move to Oregon for the remaining part of the summer.

They rental company said since she stated that she would vacate on August 20th they rented the place from then on and that I would have to pay until then. Do I have to pay until August 20th because she gave them a written notice that she would vacate then, or can I or she give them a 30 day notice that she will now leave on July 3rd?

Rent is due the 1st of the month and is payed monthly.

Thanks

If I understand this - your sister (the lessee) signed a notice that she would occupy the apartment until August 20, the landlord said fine, and now there's a complaint? I don't get it. You are a sub-letter from your sister. Seems to me that she (not you, legally) is on the hook with the landlord until then. She shouldn't have told the landlord that she would keep the apartment through August 20 if she wasn't serious.

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Originally Posted by brain2448

To explain the situation I have to include a little background. My sister graduated from UC Berkeley this spring. She went out of the country on vacation and I moved into her apartment and enrolled in summer classes as UC Berkeley. Her lease ended but she had said that she will stay here until August 20th. I was the person that was actually going to be living there. She wrote them a notice stating that she will vacate on August 20th and signed the form, it was a 30 or 60 day notice form that they just stated the move out date of August 20th on. I want to only live here for a month, and would like to move out on July 3rd and move to Oregon for the remaining part of the summer.

They rental company said since she stated that she would vacate on August 20th they rented the place from then on and that I would have to pay until then. Do I have to pay until August 20th because she gave them a written notice that she would vacate then, or can I or she give them a 30 day notice that she will now leave on July 3rd?

Rent is due the 1st of the month and is payed monthly.

Thanks

I am her brother and was just going to live here for the summer. I pay rent and did not sublet.

Basically she told the landlord that she would stay until August 20th but I was going to live there until then. I do not want to live here that long and want to move out sooner.

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Originally Posted by brain2448

To explain the situation I have to include a little background. My sister graduated from UC Berkeley this spring. She went out of the country on vacation and I moved into her apartment and enrolled in summer classes as UC Berkeley. Her lease ended but she had said that she will stay here until August 20th. I was the person that was actually going to be living there. She wrote them a notice stating that she will vacate on August 20th and signed the form, it was a 30 or 60 day notice form that they just stated the move out date of August 20th on. I want to only live here for a month, and would like to move out on July 3rd and move to Oregon for the remaining part of the summer.

They rental company said since she stated that she would vacate on August 20th they rented the place from then on and that I would have to pay until then. Do I have to pay until August 20th because she gave them a written notice that she would vacate then, or can I or she give them a 30 day notice that she will now leave on July 3rd?

Rent is due the 1st of the month and is payed monthly.

Thanks

Even if she did say they intended to stay until August 20th, why can't she say she actually wants to leave in 30 days with a written notice?

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Originally Posted by brain2448

even if she did say they intended to stay until August 20th, why can't she say she actually wants to leave in 30 days with a written notice?

Depends what the piece of paper she signed says. Does it specify that she can give 30 days notice? Your original post mentioned 60 days - what was that? Does the fact that she specified August 20 as the end date over-ride these periods? Without reading the contract who can say?