If I am not on the lease but pay rent, can my girlfriend put me out?
Question Details: I just paid rent for both this and next month.
If you are not on the lease but presumably your girlfriend is, then you are effectively a subtenant of hers--that is, you are subleasing from her (the tenant with right of possession), even if mechanically or procedurally, she has you pay the rent directly to her landlord. That would make you a subtenant under an oral lease; as a subtenant, your tenancy can be ended by your girlfriend on 30 days notice. Therefore, she could give you one month's notice to leave; if she has already accepted rent for next month, then the notice would in practice be for the month after that.
