Help! Question about Housing /Renting in California?

Question

I have a roommate that is not up to date in her payments, including the mandatory deposit.

The Landlord we are renting from has already given her a 3-day notice to pay or quit and she has exceeded that notice and has still not left. My question is, am I allowed to remove her things from her room, not getting rid of them, but leaving them in the house for her? Allowing her to stay in the house, just not in her room?

She has not been living in the house for even a single night for the entire month, but her ex boyfriend has been living there instead.

The first is coming and I need to get someone in there that will actually pay her rent!


Please help!

We are all on the same contract with the Landlord.

Answer 1

Some of the advice here will end up with you being arrested in CA. It may be good advice elsewhere, but not here.

You can't remove her things until after the judge signs her eviction. She can actually call the police and press criminal charges against you if you attempt to do this.

Sadly, the same goes for the boyfriend. He has been in the house a month, it is his residence now. He actually (sucks, I know) has to be evicted as well. Guest stay a week, after that you have to evict even a deadbeat relative in California. Once he was willingly let in (as opposed to breaking in) he gained legal status.

Answer 2

Since you are both on the lease/contract you are both responsible for what happens and the consequences that could leave to eviction.
Eviction is expensive and perhaps you and the landlord could cooperate in changing the locks (dont do this yourself) to keep the boyfriend out.
The boyfriend is the easier to solve problem, since he is probably trespassing.

I think you need to make her feel the pain by cooperating with the landlord to go after the boyfriend for trespassing, get the locks changed since he does not have your permission and you may feel threatened, making that a police issue.
With luck, they will both go away and you can find a new roommate, when they see you are willing to cause serious problems for them
good luck!

Answer 3

If the roommate's agreement is directly with the landlord, you need to let the landlord take care of it.

If it is an agreement with you on a sublet - then you should gather her things together, take pictures, make a written inventory and put them into storage until she comes back to claim them.

One thing I would do, is not allow her ex-boyfriend into the property and definitely not into her room. If he is coming in with a key, I would get together with the landlord about changing locks.

Answer 4

He is not on the contract , put his suitcase on the porch and change the locks .
Advertise for another roommate stat unless you can afford to pay the entire rent .
Although , you said the landlord gave "her" notice . . .
Do you have Separate rental contracts ?

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Answer 5

your residence, but when there's a hearth and humans get harm because of plenty of humans being within the residence some thing would possibly occur, however no one i do know has ever had a this occur to them...