Option agreements are specifically designed to achieve what a wholesaler is basically trying to accomplish (i.e. during term of agreement property owner has obligation to sell to option holder at agreed price, but option holder can choose at his/her sole discretion whether to proceed with purchase, sell/assign the option agreement to another buyer, or simply walk away from the deal by letting the option expire without exercising it).Or am I missing something here?

My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: CAHi,My current tenants lease is expiring soon.

Mr Investor, most of the women at wal-mart can't be picked up unless you secretly happen to be the incredible hulkBack to the thread; I think what the OP doesn't understand is that most of the people doing what he is describing, are not bird dogs they are sketchy wholesalers and they are trying to cut him out of the deal.If you're a schmuck and can't find your own deals one strategy is to pose as an "investor" and then try to get an inexperienced or just foolhardy wholesaler to start telling you details about property, until you can get the address or ask him to see it, and then you go get your own buyer and try to cut the original wholesaler out or just bide your time until his contract expires and then pounce.people like that are the reason waterboarding was inventedregular bird dogs are great, but for the record yeah they do engaged in illegal activity in most realistic transactions.

A lease of either gives you control of those rights for the term specified in the lease, then the control of those rights return to the original owner of the rights, unless those rights are sold outright or the rights expire.

He had it listed with an agent but the listing expired so I have my agent go with me to sign a new listing agreement, and for me to get all the paperwork for the ss package.

"I see here that your listing is going to expire in about 3 days and wondering what your plan is"

This is roughly the message I send to my tenant 60 days before lease renewal:Dear tenant, Insert nice words....Your lease is expiring on [date]You have the following options:Renew your lease for 12 month at [rate] (If market rate is $100 higher I tend to increase something, if market rate is $200 higher I use (current rate + market rate)/2 for the new rate, if market rate is same or lower I would keep it the same rate)Move to a month-to-month lease at [rate x 1.25]Vacate from the premise on or before [lease end date]Please let me know by [deadline].

the owner would typically pay the commissions on a commercial lease; however, an option to renew is an option to renew. it just gets renewed. there is no new lease, no new leasing agents, none of that. it sounds like they aren't exercising their option to renew. they are essentially letting the existing lease expire and negotiating a new one. my response would be - we either renew as is as provided under the existing lease please plan on vacating as we'll start marketing. it is possible that we may come to terms on a new lease but no guarantees.....

This is not a blanket credit line it is property based you can leave it unused for 18 months if you don't use it it expires. 

They've been provided with a (statutorily mandated) 10 Day Notice to cure the violation, and for an eviction to be filed, the tenant will have not complied by the expiration of the 10 day notice.