Say I have a lease on a house that I both live in and /sublet/ to multiple tenants. One of these tenants and I do not get along, and so mutually agreed that things weren’t working out and that she would find a new place after the new year. I say she verbally agreed to move out on the seventh. She claims she never agreed to that date, and had only planned on moving out “sometime” after the new year. Now she wants another month, but I already signed on a new tenant to occupy her room!
At first, she offered to pay a full months rent for an extra week or two. But then we got into a heated argument when i told her that she had to leave immediately anyway and she claimed to have a /right/ to 30 days notice, and that I couldn’t make her leave until then. Now, she doesn’t want to pay rent at all, claiming that, so long as she can prove that this is her home address (which she can, considering she filed an official change of address form with the post office upon moving in), that I can’t change the locks or otherwise evict her until 30 days after I’ve given her written notice of eviction.
Is this true? And is there any way I can oust her immediately (regardless of whether or not she offers to pay this month’s rent)??
We are in the state of Maryland and I am the only one with a written lease. Those I sublet to are under a verbal agreement to pay their rent and portion of utilities monthly.