County of Los Angeles Department of Consumer Affairs New Consumer Laws 2007

Landlords-Tenants: Long-Term Tenants Get 30 More Days To Move Out

Civil Code Section 1946.1

The law used to require landlords to give residential tenants only a 30-day notice to evict them on a no-fault eviction.

This new law requires landlords to give tenants at least a 60-day eviction notice if all the tenants in the unit have lived there for 12 months or longer.

If any tenant has lived in the unit for less than 12 months, the landlord can evict all the tenants with a 30-day notice.

Landlords can still evict tenants with a 30-day notice if the landlord is selling the rental property and all the following things apply:

• The rental property is a house, condo, or townhouse;
• The landlord is selling the property to a person or persons, not giving it away as a gift or selling it to a company;
• The landlord has opened escrow on the property, and he or she gives the eviction notice to the tenant within 120 days after escrow opens;
• The landlord did not give the tenant an eviction notice prior to opening escrow; and
• The buyer plans to live in the property for at least one year

For more information:
County of Los Angeles Department of Consumer Affairs
B-96 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration
500 W. Temple Street * Los Angeles, CA 90012-2706
Telephone (800) 593-8222 (within the County) * (213) 974-1452
web site: dca.lacounty.gov