Quote: (03-25-2013 06:27 AM)Menace Wrote:
Not sure about Cali law, but as an owner in possession you have many rights and they have few. This is a very different situation than if you owned but rented the whole place out. I don't think standard renter protections apply to them, but check your local county code and/or lawyer.
My guess is that without paying rent they have at best 1 month to stay before you can put all their stuff outside the house and change the locks.
Actually, I live in Cali. My squatter has rights as a tenant because he A. lived in my house for more that 2 weeks, and B. gets his mail delivered to my house. Thankfully I am selling the place now to go back to live with family. That way a 30 day notice is valid if you have a contact with a realtor to sell. Otherwise it is a long process for eviction and you have to file about three different petitions to the court, and the lawyer is gonna be close to 1000$. I hope that when I served his notice that he thinks its a joke. When I had it out with him, he was going on about how I couldnt kick him out and he had rights. Since I am selling, he has 30 days. I just hope that I get the chance to have the sheriffs come over and make him get out. Dude trashed my house, I have Zero tolerance for grown men who live like swine.