The Santa Barbara Independent and other media sources commonly report stories about evictions. Recent examples have been Dario Pini’s properties as well as the San Vicente Mobile Home Park . Eviction, strictly defined and to much of the public, means that people are having to involuntarily leave their homes. In California and to property providers, being “evicted” means that the resident went through a legal proceeding to be forced out.
I’d like to take this opportunity to inform
these tenants, as well as readers, that technically most of these are not
evictions. Unless tenants have not paid rent, violated their rental
agreement, and/or any other reason a landlord may terminate an existing lease
for tenants’ failure to comply with the terms of the contract or California
law, they are being given a notice of termination of tenancy, which is
different from an eviction.
An eviction is a legal action against a
tenant, also called an unlawful detainer in California.