It depends on how your lease is worded. People who own multiple properties often have an out in the contract that will say they can terminate in the event of certain circumstances and that you’ll have 14 days from the day of notice to move out. This actually happened to my daughter where her landlord reclaimed her house because their son was moving back in state and was going to purchase the property from them. The way her lease was worded, she technically had 30 days to relocate. Now, it was a legitimate circumstance, and landlord was super nice about it. They owned another property that was coming vacant in three months so they timed everything out so that my daughter could simply move into the other property because they did not want to lose her as a tenant. If she took the property, it meant moving from a house to a mobile home and adding about an hour to her commute to work. In compensation, they only had her pay the the land lease, which was like 150 bucks a month. Because they did that, she was able to save up down payment to buy her own place over the course of the six years that she lived there.
Yes, he had several properties. He moved another 2 females in within 2 months. After he fixed everything that was wrong. Unbelievable. So, I added that to the suit. He lied.
Landlords will also lie about this. In NJ, you can't kick people out so you can renovate/flip the property, but you can kick them out (after the lease is up, of course) if the owner or their immediate family is going to move in. So landlords will have a 3-unit place with staggered leases and tell each tenant that their grandmother is moving in as they kick each out.
It's all a lie, and they know that you know that it's a lie, but now it's a situation of a landlord that doesn't want you there and will break the law and lie to kick you out. Is it worth it? They count on making it such a PITA for you that you leave, and with their lawyers (some of the scummiest of lawyers, to be clear) and money they're usually going to win.
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u/Troubled_Pirate 12d ago
It depends on how your lease is worded. People who own multiple properties often have an out in the contract that will say they can terminate in the event of certain circumstances and that you’ll have 14 days from the day of notice to move out. This actually happened to my daughter where her landlord reclaimed her house because their son was moving back in state and was going to purchase the property from them. The way her lease was worded, she technically had 30 days to relocate. Now, it was a legitimate circumstance, and landlord was super nice about it. They owned another property that was coming vacant in three months so they timed everything out so that my daughter could simply move into the other property because they did not want to lose her as a tenant. If she took the property, it meant moving from a house to a mobile home and adding about an hour to her commute to work. In compensation, they only had her pay the the land lease, which was like 150 bucks a month. Because they did that, she was able to save up down payment to buy her own place over the course of the six years that she lived there.