LoL there goes my roommate. I just 86'd him, and am changing the locks

[Dan Druff]

sonatine loves to call this an alt-right site, but there's more active liberal posters here than active conservatives.

And I am not alt-right myself, unless you want to bastardize the term "alt-right" to mean anyone conservative.

Larry, I don't know about Chicago, but California does not allow you to kick out roommates on the spot, even if there is no rental agreement. They still have automatic rights by being residents in your unit, even if for a short time.

He might be too dumb to realize this, but honestly you should be happy if he gets out of there within 10 days.

he was on a "verbal" lease with me. part of the contingencies of this verbal agreement was that he wouldn't drink excessively.

Drink excessively? My neighbor refered to him as "the half in the bag all the time roommate who's always outside on the front porch drinking"

that violates our verbal contract. So when he goes and tries to fight this, he can preface it with that he agreed with me that he couldn't do those things.

Dangerous behavior violates any lease, verbal or otherwise. If the guy is shooting junk in my bathroom, do I have to let him stay bc he's on a lease? FUCK NO I DON'T.

He also is a danger to himself, and part of the agreement for the 10 days is that he check in to rehab or AA. he's already agreed to leave in 10 days. so he can go fuck himself.


Lease or no lease, residence or no residence: this kind of behavior does not get you good points in front of an eviction judge who will laugh this out of his court room.


LOL at thinking I haven't researched this. I've been wanting to kick him out for months.

Again, I know absolutely nothing about Illinois law, so perhaps it's different.

However, in California, you cannot simply decide that a roommate is behaving poorly and just kick him out.

You would need to go through the following process:

1) Give a 3-day notice to perform covenant or quit.

2) Wait 3 days to see if he has changed his behavior.

3) If he has changed his behavior, then your only option to get rid of him is to give him a 30-day notice to vacate, and then proceed with eviction proceedings after that.

4) If he hasn't changed his behavior, then you can start eviction proceedings, but this takes time and involves a court appearance.


So there's absolutely no way to force him to leave in 10 days in California, unless he leaves voluntarily upon your request.