http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/law/223728.html
老貓, please see link above. Based on the suggestion, i notified the tenant that we do not plan to renew the month to month lease becuase of the leaking problem. The tenant then, called the City Department of Neighborhood services and they send out inspectors and idenfied a one page list of repaired items, basically, they covers those damaged associated with the leak, some general house maintenance work including tuckpointing exterior of the house, repair chimney cap, repair one holes on at the bottom of the garage door frame. I talked with City inspector and was told that since the tenant called city, i can not terminate the lease because it will be considered as retalation even though we have month to month lease. basically she told me that i can not terminate lease within 6-months the case closed. During this 6 month period, if the tenant call city to start a new case, then they will get another 6 months. She see this happening in the past. City inspector suggest me to send a writen notice to the tenant after this case closed to notify them that we would need to terminate lease in 6 months because we plan a remodeling work. By doing this, we can avoid tenant to continue take benefit of 6 month rule by calling city for a new case. 老貓, is this correct? The city inspector told me this when we met her at the house, but nothing in writen. Thanks a lot.
