Hello!
I`m totally lost with this and hope someone here can help me -
This is my case:
I live in a nice artist community without a conventional contract.
When I moved there in the year 2000, I signed a lease agreement typed out
by the property owner that informs of me my rights and duties in the community.
I still have that agreement, it states a date and my signing.
The landlord never signed it though.
Now the problem:
In 2002 I invited my brother to stay there with me. He never signed anything and
during the last years he mainly lived with his girlfriend in a different part of town,
but kept paying half of the rent.
End of 2005 I got a temporary job offer in Europe.
I asked a friend of mine to take my place in the artist community while I´m
gone and pay my half of the rent.
While being in Europe I learned that my brother had moved back full time into my place in the community and had kicked my friend out!
I returned to California half a year later and learned that my brother had told the landlord that I had moved out!
I was able to clear that up pretty fast but that doesn´t change the fact
that I find myself in the uncomfortable situation of my brother wanting the place to himself.
He told me I should find something new.
I live there since 7 years. What rights do I have?
Does my brother have any rights at all with me beeing the lease holder??
Thank you!!
I`m totally lost with this and hope someone here can help me -
This is my case:
I live in a nice artist community without a conventional contract.
When I moved there in the year 2000, I signed a lease agreement typed out
by the property owner that informs of me my rights and duties in the community.
I still have that agreement, it states a date and my signing.
The landlord never signed it though.
Now the problem:
In 2002 I invited my brother to stay there with me. He never signed anything and
during the last years he mainly lived with his girlfriend in a different part of town,
but kept paying half of the rent.
End of 2005 I got a temporary job offer in Europe.
I asked a friend of mine to take my place in the artist community while I´m
gone and pay my half of the rent.
While being in Europe I learned that my brother had moved back full time into my place in the community and had kicked my friend out!
I returned to California half a year later and learned that my brother had told the landlord that I had moved out!
I was able to clear that up pretty fast but that doesn´t change the fact
that I find myself in the uncomfortable situation of my brother wanting the place to himself.
He told me I should find something new.
I live there since 7 years. What rights do I have?
Does my brother have any rights at all with me beeing the lease holder??
Thank you!!
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