Legal advise needed

[Hammad Ali]

Hello All,

I was previously renting a month ago and we asked our landlord to give us month to month since we were planning to leave back in Aug- Sept 2014.  Well, they never sent us anything back to sign in writing for our yearly contract.  So we kept quiet and moved out when we got the house.  They are now saying we left without terms and taking us to court.  Please advise.  

[Linda Weygant]

I think it depends.  There may have been a clause in your lease that says, absent a written renewal, the original lease will renew for the same time period and with all the same clauses in affect.  Or it could say that absent a written renewal, the lease will go month to month.  Read your lease.  

If there are no clauses in there that say what happens if there is no renewal, then check your state's laws on what happens when you are renting without a lease.  

This is not legal advice.  You should talk to a lawyer in your state who is familiar with tenant/landlord laws.