> A year advance of rent and my landlord?

A year advance of rent and my landlord?

Posted at: 2015-03-04 
If you have a year long lease, he can kick you out if you violate any portion of the lease that's serious enough to warrant a notice to vacate (like you get a pet, you add a tenant, you destroy the interior, you are doing/manufacturing drugs, you are a nuisance). If you are asked to vacate the apartment for violation of the lease, you owe rent until the place is re-rented. If he re-rents it the following month, he would legally be obligated to refund the remainder. If he is unable to re-rent the place (and he must actively try), you owe rent for the remainder of the lease.

If you are prepaying a year but are month to month or another periodic tenancy, he can ask you to leave at any time as long as he gives you proper notice (20-60 days, or one full rental term, in most states). However, if he does this, he must refund your money.

He can kick you out if he has a valid reason to, other than non-payment. I would say that if he accepts the payment for a year of rent, it would be the same as a verbal contract for a one-year lease if you do not already have a lease.

He can "kick you out" for any reason that he could do so without the advance payment - except, obviously, for nonpayment of rent. Paying in advance doesn't insulate you from being evicted for cause or from the landlord simply terminating the tenancy early per state law.

He could evict you if he had just cause. But he would owe you the prepaid balance.

Yes of course he can if you break the lease.

But if a tenant said to me "here is 1 years rent" i would be like "wtf dude, no way, this sounds like your going to turn the place into a grow house, or your going to sublet"

Landlords know the 1 year / 6 month rent in advance usually means = trouble.

Yes if you violate any other term of your lease.

He will have to return any unused portion of the rent that was prepaid.

He can also sell the property and abscond with your funds.

Yes. You won't get evicted for non-payment, but you can still be evicted if you violate the rules or other terms of your lease. In that case, you would get a refund for the pre-paid rent after you leave.

If you break the terms of the lease, yes he can (he will probably just have to return the unused portion of your pre-paid rent).

If you violate the terms of your lease, yes...you can still be evicted.

Okay say for instance I paid my landlord for a whole year of rent in February to make it to where I didn't have to pay rent again until next year can he still kick me out within this year that I have already paid for?