North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Even though the defendant-tenant was in default on the parties’ lease due to the tenant’s failure to pay April and May 2020 rent as of May 2020, the plaintiff-landlords waived their right to possession of the leased premises by accepting ...

The record indicates that the parties had a month-to-month tenancy, that the plaintiff-landlord provided timely notice of termination, and that the defendant-tenants held over after the lease was properly terminated. The tenants attempted to explain the history of their unsuccessful ...

From the parties’ evidence about their business arrangement—plaintiff bought houses and defendant renovated them for resale—and about their on-again, off-again romantic relationship, the trial court could find that defendant was living at a Winston-Salem property owned by plaintiff as plaintiff’s ...

    After complaints from the defendant-tenant’s neighbors, the plaintiff-housing authority sent defendant an eviction notice that cited the peaceful-enjoyment provision of the defendant-tenant’s lease. However, since that provision encompasses a broad range of conduct, and since some of that ...

A commercial lease gave the defendant-tenant the option to extend the lease “by giving Landlord prior written notice, at least six (6) months in advance of Expiration Date, or Tenant’s election to extend the term; it being agreed that time ...

The parties amended their ground lease to require the defendant-landlord to subordinate its interest to the plaintiff-tenant’s lender, so long as the amount to be subordinated does not exceed a 60 percent loan-to-value ratio. Contrary to the tenant’s contention, this ...

Plaintiffs allege that their two hangar lease agreements with the defendant-city are month-to-month leases. Under G.S. § 42-14, a monthly tenancy may be terminated by a notice to quit given seven days or more before the end of the current ...

Since the term of the parties’ federally-subsidized lease is automatically renewed (absent the defendant-tenant’s breach of or election to terminate the lease), the plaintiff-landlord’s continued acceptance of rent from the tenant did not waive its claim that the tenant had ...

  Upon appeal of a Court of Appeals’ opinion upholding summary judgment for a landlord and new owners, we affirm the Court of Appeals’ decision (Although the parties’ written lease gave the plaintiff-tenants a right of first refusal if the ...

A commercial lease gave the defendant-tenant the option to extend the lease “by giving Landlord prior written notice, at least six (6) months in advance of Expiration Date, or Tenant’s election to extend the term; it being agreed that time ...