Can my landlord force me to not renew my lease?

I have been renting my condo by room since August of 2009. I signed a six month lease initially, and paid last month's rent, as well as a security deposit. In February of 2010, I then signed another lease, but this time for a year. I had three roomates at the time (me in my own room and my friend/bf in another). A few months ago my friend broke the lease and paid the difference because she had to leave. This didn't pose any problem because there were still two rooms rented out.





I planned on signing another lease when mine is up on February 28, 2011. However, my roomate wants another guy to live here and does not want me to renew my lease. I AM now planning to move out because of other reasons, but I was wondering if by law they can force me to move out and not offer me to sign a new lease if they don't have any other good reason than they have another renter (at the same price)?|||Yes, just like you can not be forced to sign a lease the landlord can't be forced either. They can simply decide not to rent to you anymore and tell you to leave.|||It sounds like all the roommates have separate leases. Please edit if that is not correct because that would be a completely different answer.



Yes. No landlord is ever legally required to renew a lease. Not renewing a lease is NOT the same as being evicted %26amp; does not have the same legal requirements. No landlord ever has to have a reason not to renew a lease. The only requirement is that they give you proper notice.



EDIT: A tenant can never renew a lease if the landlord does not agree to it.|||Miss Nicole no one can force you to not to renew lease. you can renew a lease if you wants to and there is no legal restriction in it. you just do the way you want to.|||According to real estate laws in my state, no one can force to not to renew lease. A person can renew a lease if he wants to and there is no legal restriction in it.|||They can't force you to sign a new lease. They can refuse to allow you to renew for virtually any (nondiscriminatory) reason at all. Since you are planning to move out just do that.





Be sure to give the landlord 30 days notice that you will move out when your lease is up, assuming you don't change your mind.





If you did decide to stay on the landlord would probably give you preference to stay since you have a good history with them but if the roommate went to them and said you leave or they would leave, who knows what they'd say. Not a problem since you want to leave anyhow.