Can I be evicted if there was no lease agreement signed?

Right. Even without a lease agreement, your tenant rights shall still prevail. Your landlord must still accept and respect those rights.

Check your state tenant laws. In the absence of any lease agreement, your state tenant laws will prevail.

yes, even though you did not sign a lease agreement your landlord can still evict you. But that doesn’t mean that he can evict you immediately without giving a 30-day prior notice first. If he do that without any prior notice then that is a different case. You can file a complaint against your landlord if that case happen. you have 2 choices either you hire a lawyer to represent you in court or you can ask assistance and help from a mediating company like the RPA.

A landlord cannot resort to self-help like changing the locks or holding your things at hostage. There are legal processes that still need to be followed.

If you can’t reason out with your landlord, file a formal complaint against him. A formal complaint might make him change his mind about how you should be treated.

What did you do for your landlord to suddenly evict you? There must be a reason, unless your landlord is an evil person that does not respect the law.

As a landlord, I would never rent without a lease agreement. It’s just too risky. What was your landlord thinking when he rented to you without a written lease agreement?

I’ve had a similar situation. My landlord and I don’t have a signed lease agreement so when I missed a rent payment, she changed the locks and held my things on ransom. I called the police but they said that I should go to someone who does housing disputes. So I went online and stumbled upon the RPA site. I filed a complaint through them and my issue got resolved.

We rent a house and my wife just gave birth to a baby through C-Section. We initially agreed to pay $300 a month plus the utilities but for the past month, we were not able to pay the utilities because we were just coming back from the cost of the delivery. Now the landlord says we only have until March 5 to pack our things and go. No 3-day quit or pay notice was ever given. Is this legal?

Even if there isn?t any lease agreement signed, you verbally agreed. So since it’s a month-to-month agreement, your landlord will need to provide you with a 30 day notice.

There are states wherein if a tenant lives for 30 days, he would legally be considered a tenant as long as rent was paid. So a landlod must follow the right notices and procedures in your immediate jurisdiction.

If you did not pay then your landlord can evict you but of course, a 30-day notice must be in place.

I used to have the same problem but as a landlord, I decided to just compromise. I had a tenant who had a stroke and then died a few weeks after. During that period, her family came and went and basically moved in to take care of their sick mother. No rent was paid. So after the funeral, I told them that the rent will be forgiven as long as they vacate. Yeah, I didn’t collect anything but I would have spent more if I sued them. Besides, they don’t have a lot of money following the funeral so it will be impractical for me to try to squeeze the last cents from them.

In some states, a 7-day notice is required so a landlord can evict you after 7 days.

Right, as long as the right notices were sent and within the right timeframe, your landlord is acting legally.

The only advice I can give is that you must be aware of your state tenant laws to know your legal options.