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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
That's why you have a contract (lease) that spells out the terms of your arrangement. I, even as a lawyer, find it repugnant that you have to have a "valid" reason to remove someone from YOUR house, even with 90 day notice, when they are there month to month. The lease should be the extent of the protection offered.
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You say its "your house" but its different category when you start treating it as a business by renting it to someone.
Maybe the laws are biased towards the worst-case scenario when it comes to evicting a tenant - eg) disabled person in a wheelchair who can't find a similar quality of living anywhere else. So by evicting him from this nice single-level apartment with a wheelchair ramp, etc. for no reason is depriving them of a comfortable place to live. So maybe the laws were just applied to everybody instead of going on a case by case basis for everybody with a hardship.
I am not sure that "I don't want to be in the landlord business anymore" is a very good reason by itself, and its not the case here because the owner intends to sell the property.
Honestly if the owner / landlord didn't have one of the valid reasons for evicting the tenant, he probably has a screw loose to not want the extra income that renting gives him. He could just turn it over to a property rental company to deal with if he wants to be hands-off. I mean, unless the owner lives in the same building and just wants to have his personal space back why would he do that?