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The only person I see being rude is OP... Maybe instead of chatting on the internet she should be job searching.
Maybe you should read my post about how written communication hampers understanding and fosters misunderstandings because it lacks visual (facial) and audible (tone of voice) cues. It's surprising we don't have more flame wars.
As other have mentioned, yes, your landlord can evict you or since you're on a month to month, simply end your tenancy with proper notice. Either way, odds are you will be forced out fairly quickly. At this point, you primary concern needs to be securing suitable housing as waiting will only aggravate the situation with no possible relief.
Putting aside the social-economic discussion over your situation, one item you will need to be aware about is that when you were employed, late payments (regardless of the reasons) was probably the underlying reason your landlord is unwilling to work with you. We have many tenants who have ran into a financial roadblock that causes them to be unable to pay rent when due. In the majority of cases, these are one time true surprise occurrences. We will work with a tenant if they come (hat in hand) and explain exactly what happened. But if they don;t care to communicate in advance or the reasoning is just poor financial planning, sympathy is short lived. Regardless of when you get paid, you need to adjust your initial spending so the rent money is available to pay when due, where due, how due. I'm sure that when you move out, you will be holding the landlord to the exact time frame (by X date) to refund any security deposit and not so much as one day late, so keep that in mind.
To avoid eviction, your landlord was being nice and suggested you find a different place to live. You should go looking/find another place to live with cheaper rent or with a landlord that will accept rent in the incremental amts that you can pay. Such as a place that rents 'by the week'.
If you stay much longer and continue with late rent, your landlord will either start eviction proceedings or might (if you are lucky) give you a written 30 day notice to move first. 30 day notice isn't an eviction and doesn't go on your record.
It's obvious you cannot stay in your current rental and pay rent on time. So it's time to move elsewhere asap. You don't want an eviction on your record so it's in your best interest to move before it gets to that point.
My health issues haven't interfered with anything except my ability to eat certain foods, AZ Manager. I send out at least 30 resumes a day and I've been to countless temp agencies.L.A. is very competitive, moreso than AZ but your brain is probably too fried to understand that.
This is my end year here, I had a One year lease and now it's month to month. I don't have cable or a car and I have a prepaid phone. I don't eat much because I'm too stressed and I hardly sleep due to insomnia. I'm not a bad tenant, my landlord wants rent on the 1st of each month and after that it's late. When I was working and getting paid every 2 weeks my rent might be 2 days late because of the way the pay period fell.
Since you're now in a month to month the landlord can ask you to leave for any reason as long as you receive the proper notice. Most likely that is 30 days, but you should double check California law to make sure.
It would actually take longer to evict you for late payments than it would by just terminating your month to month lease. Landlord may or may not know this, so I wouldn't bring it up.
I read most of the posts here and about 95% of the replies were from landlords and/or haters. I noticed you took the time to reply to some with details regarding your situation etc.
I don't know if you're new to the forum or not, but in the future I wouldn't bother replying to the haters and or trying to explain your situation. It's not worth the effort. All it will do is give you a headache.
One thing I'd like to point out is that since you said you're on unemployment that will make it extremely difficult to get another lease. A new landlord will want to know your source of income and unemployment is only temporary. If you can I would try to work with your current landlord if the two of you are still on good terms.
Health issues for 6 months? Why do I susoect the health issues will be cured the same month your unemployment runs out?
I think you're getting a BIT paranoid in that line of thinking. I can (off the top of my head) name at least 10 health issues that could make working difficult to impossible for 6+ months.
OP, yes your landlord can and will evict you if you continue to pay your rent late. It seems like he may already be taking steps toward doing so. I'm not assuming you're doing this maliciously, but as a landlord myself, I can tell you that when your rent is late so is mine and your landlord is likely tired of sticking his neck out for someone who is (maybe unwittingly) taking advantage of his kindness.
(AZ) I'm not aware of any reason the LL can evict for late payment as long as late fees are paid, but LL can serve 5 day to pay rent or quit. It is not clear to me if that retains LL's right to continue to charge rent, keep deposit (lease situation). I checked my lease and there is no mention that late payments can cause eviction, haven't checked AZ law yet. (See below, not going to follow up until beginning of year.)
I have one tenant and lease expires late next summer. Planning on telling tenant about 3-4 months from now (November and December are hard months to rent) that tenant obviously can't afford house and should consider moving before lease expires.
I intend to explore legal options to getting tenant out as soon as rental season improves. Christmas is not the right season, if not for the emotional part of it but also the economic part that it's hard to rent a house around that time of year.
Partly my fault. It somehow escaped me that tenant has a 2:1 salary gross to rent ratio. Whatever was I thinking? Never again under 3:1 for me. It's obvious why every month is late.
Funny, tenant is paying on the average $50/month extra just in late fees. I wish I could get the same effective rent with an on-time tenant. I hate taking late fees, it makes me feel like a cad, but a stick is not a stick if you don't use it, and I have no idea when the rent would come in without the late fees.... Never?
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