Q: I have a letter stating we paid rent and deposit for the month. Landlord now wants us out bc of work that needs done.
He stated he would come fix all the issues and then decides we can't stay he wants us out. I agreed to move out by the 1st as we have no lease just a written letter saying he was renting to us. Well to my fiance. I'm not even on the paper.. I don't know what to do.
A:
A simple paper with the essential terms of the lease (rent amount, duration, the names of the parties) can act as a valid lease or at least evidence of an agreement that one party intends to rent out property to another.
That said, there are a lot of unknowns here. If you had a lease for a set amount of time longer than one month, your landlord is essentially asking you to a mutual release from the lease agreement. You are within your right to do that, or more likely your fiance is since you are not on the lease. If the lease is being terminated mutually by both parties, get your security deposit back and any future rent you may have already paid. Find a new place to live.
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