All Forum Posts by: Lawrence Amsterdam

Lawrence,

I'm in the same boat as you; I just obtained a SFR and intend to house hack. I'm making the tenants sign leases for individual rooms.

However, you don't HAVE to do this. I'm in Colorado so that's the body of laws I'm familiar with: if someone begins living(3 nights or more) in one of your rooms without a lease, they automatically gain "month-to-month" rights. This means several things:
-Evicting them falls under the same rules (in CO that's ~11 days notice just to begin the process)
-If they have been paying you(for example $500 on the 1st of every month) and it is understood that this is rent, that rate "becomes" the rent in legal disputes
-Their bedroom door becomes similar to your front door. For example if it is closed and you open it without their permission, you are technically breaking and entering(whether or not they care is another matter).