Is it okay for landlord to break this lease?

[clover79]

I have a question. 4 years ago, I moved into a house in NC, renting the top floor while the owner used the lower floor. At first, this was just by verbal agreement. However, last December, we both signed a lease that I THOUGHT guaranteed me until 2007.

The wording goes like this:

Commencing on the 1st day of December 2005 and monthly thereafter until the 29th day of June, 2007, at which time this agreement is terminated.

Does this lease bind the landlord until the 29th day of June, 2007 if I haven't broken any terms of the lease? Or does the "monthly thereafter" part somehow nix that out?

The landlord has given me a 30 day notice to vacate, and I need more time than that! I haven't broken any terms or conditions of the lease. Is this legal?

Thanks for any help you can give.

Clover

 

[lwpat]

Look at the termination clause in the lease. Even with the notice, he will still have to go thru eviction proceedings in order to get you out.

 

[clover79]

thanks lwpat

There is no termination clause that I can see. It only says it can be terminated with 30 day notice if tenant breaks the terms, all of which are fairly standard and haven't been broken. It doesn't give any other condition upon which the tenant or the landlord can break the lease.
Landlord wrote this lease herself and probably didn't include everything she needed to, so some things could definitely be missing.
Regardless, won't an eviction process still only take 30 days or only slightly longer than that? If she tries to break the lease and evict me, would I be given, say 60-90 days to move if I requested it because the eviction was wrongful (i.e. not for any of the 4 reasons NC allows a landlord to evict a tenant, considering that there are no clauses for otherwise in the lease itself)?

Thanks again,

Clover