 Roommates rights (by Zizi [CA]) Mar 28, 2023 9:04 AM
 Roommates rights (by plenty [MO]) Mar 28, 2023 9:38 AM
Roommates rights (by Oregon Woodsmoke [ID]) Mar 28, 2023 10:08 AM
Roommates rights (by Deanna [TX]) Mar 28, 2023 10:49 AM
Roommates rights (by Robert J [CA]) Mar 28, 2023 11:54 AM
Roommates rights (by zizi [CA]) Mar 28, 2023 2:52 PM
Roommates rights (by Oregon Woodsmoke [ID]) Mar 29, 2023 10:35 AM
Roommates rights (by Zizi [CA]) Mar 29, 2023 2:34 PM
Roommates rights (by Zizi [CA]) Posted on: Mar 28, 2023 9:04 AM
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Hi,
I’m thinking of renting out my spare room for a couple of years. When I want the room vacant does the roommate has a right to refuse? What is the law for roommates than regular tenants.
Thanks
--104.175.xx.xx |
Roommates rights (by plenty [MO]) Posted on: Mar 28, 2023 9:38 AM
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Good questions. Always good to do your homework and know the exit plan. Hopefully someone from your state will come along. In my state it's pretty easy to end that agreement. Might be helpful to know what part of CA you need the guidance as I understand it's different in different regions. --172.59.xxx.xxx |
Roommates rights (by Oregon Woodsmoke [ID]) Posted on: Mar 28, 2023 10:08 AM
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Roommates get full legal tenant rights because they are tenants. The only "rights" they don't have is that if they are going to live inside your house with you, the fair housing laws don't apply. You can turn down children and persons of the genders (how ever many those are now) who are not the same gender as you are, and you can limit the number of persons per room to one if you want to.
To get them out, you must give the full written notice for the time period specified by your state or local law, or if they are on a lease you must wait until the end of the lease to get them out. --76.178.xxx.xxx |
Roommates rights (by Deanna [TX]) Posted on: Mar 28, 2023 10:49 AM
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Double-check, but I think that would be a lodger, not a roommate.
If I rent out Investment House A to B and C, then B and C are roommates to each other, and they're tenants to me.
But if I rent out a room to B in my own primary residence where I live, then B is my lodger.
I could even rent out four or five rooms to B, C, D, E, and F-- and now I have a lodging house/rooming house.
However, municipal ordinances will determine when rooming house rules come into play. For example, if I'm in R-1 zoning, I can't have a rooming house. But at the same time, it's not considered a rooming house until you have (3? 5?) lodgers. So I wouldn't have to worry about zoning restrictions, or number-of-unrelated-people-under-one-roof restrictions, or number-of-parking-spaces-per-bedroom restrictions, if I only have one or two rooms in my house rented out.
See if your town/city has a "schedule of uses" and read the municipal code's definitions of all the relevant terms, and check into all the relevant restrictions. Municipal code/ordinances varies tremendously from one town or city to the next--- and if you're conveniently close to a popular university or college, there may be additional restrictions in play that are designed to prevent students from living in certain neighborhoods too easily. (For example, in my old city, you could have up to 5 unrelated people under one roof, no problem, but within a zone close to a $60k/year university, that number was bumped down to no-more-than-3-unrelated-people-under-one-roof.) --137.118.xx.xxx |
Roommates rights (by Robert J [CA]) Posted on: Mar 28, 2023 11:54 AM
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You are in California, of course, roommates have more rights than an owner. You'd better re-think this and have an eviction attorney in your pocket. But it takes around 4 to 6 months to get a court date. 2 to three months to have the sheriff serve a tenant with a lock-out date. So if you thinking of renting out a room for 2 years, it will take almost 1 year to evict. --47.147.xxx.xxx |
Roommates rights (by zizi [CA]) Posted on: Mar 28, 2023 2:52 PM
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Thank you so very much for all the feedbacks. --104.175.xx.xx |
Roommates rights (by Oregon Woodsmoke [ID]) Posted on: Mar 29, 2023 10:35 AM
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It's California so very unlikely that OP can run a rooming house in a residential neighborhood.
Check with city ordinances in your area, OP. There is a very high chance that anything that rents for short term is going to have to pay the full collection of innkeeper's taxes and fees, so check that, too, if you want to declare your tenant to be a lodger and not a roommate. --76.178.xxx.xxx |
Roommates rights (by Zizi [CA]) Posted on: Mar 29, 2023 2:34 PM
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Thank you. --104.175.xx.xx |
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