You and your landlord legally can negotiate whatever terms are mutually acceptable when renewing a lease. If you want lower rent, you can ask that your landlord renew your lease at a lower rent. If you want certain maintenance performed or amenities restored, you can legally include such terms in... View More

It depends on the time frame of when you were evicted. "Generally," after 30 days the items can often be considered as abandoned and thus up to the landlord to do with them as they see fit. Furthermore, they can put them into storage and you would be responsible for the storage fees.... View More

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answered on Aug 23, 2023

In Oklahoma, after you've been evicted, you may still have the opportunity to retrieve your personal property that you left behind in the rental unit. The landlord is generally required to follow a legal process for storing and returning your belongings. They should provide you with a notice... View More

You can potentially recover the difference between the rent actually collected by the landlord and the amount of rent the parties agreed to in the lease.

You should have the tenant send a notice of termination of the lease to the landlord, and then sign a new lease without you as a guarantor or co-signer

There is a fine line between “transactional sex” and prostitution. The landlord and your girlfriend may have crossed it.

I recommend that you ask your girlfriend move as soon as possible. If they did this once, they will likely do it again. You should not want her to go down that... View More

Potentially has adverse possession claim, however if she was there with permission then that removes the adverse aspect. Contact a real estate attorney for your best advice.

If your rent is due on the 1st, and you do not pay rent on or before the 1st, you are late and your landlord can give you notice.

Oklahoma law only protects a tenant, who is defined as "any person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a dwelling unit." Presumably a guest is a temporary occupant and not entitled to live there under a rental agreement. The bottom line is that there is no minimum time that has to... View More

While the notice to terminate a tenancy must be in writing, the law does not state a specific form for this written notice. These laws were created before email was invented and the term "writing" is not defined in them. However, it is possible that email notice is sufficient. The best... View More

Unfortunately, you have a difficult situation with no immediately clear answer. To see if the verbal lease survived the landlord's death, you should contact an attorney in your area or your local low-income legal services provider. You can find such providers here: https://oklegalconnect.org/#/login

You should contact an attorney who can review your contract and paperwork to determine if they have that ability or not.

Not without some type of agreement. They would be considered a "volunteer."

That’s a big question. I’m not sure what the “house isn’t sound” means.

If you search the Oklahoma Bar Association’s website, they have detailed information about landlord tenant responsibilities. So does Legal Aid.

I would contact Legal Aid if you can't get assistance from the Housing Authority that runs your section 8 program. I would also keep trying with the Housing Authority. In OKC, they have to approve the home before it qualifies for section 8 and it sounds like the apartments should not be... View More

Only if you allow it to happen.

They are both legal adults. If they aren't paying rent, then they aren't tenants and don't have the rights that tenants have. You can ask them both to leave, and you can call a sheriff if they refuse.

However, this will almost definitely do great harm to your relationship... View More

You should contact a "personal injury" attorney. I noticed that this was posted under Landlord/tenant inquiries and they wouldn't likely see it.

There isn't enough information there to know where to start. However, the Oklahoma Bar Association has a very helpful page that provides answers to a lot of questions like this. Here's the link: https://www.okbar.org/freelegalinfo/tenant/

I wish you the best!

More information is needed here.

Is there an underlying written lease with the tenant in place? If so, what are those terms regarding moveout and verbal modifications?

To get a renter out of the house, you have to file a Forcible Entry & Detainer with the court and evict them.... View More