re: Ending a month to month verbal rental agreement

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Just leave. He won't spend a dime pursuing any legal action. The pursuit will cost more than the value of what he can get legally.

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I'm going to do that regardless. But I'm reading the 10 day deal, a. Civ. Code Art. 2728, that states

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Universal Citation: LA Civ Code 2728
Art. 2728. Notice of termination; timing
The notice of termination required by the preceding Article shall be given at or before the time specified below:
(1) In a lease whose term is measured by a period longer than a month, thirty calendar days before the end of that period;
(2) In a month-to-month lease, ten calendar days before the end of that month;
(3) In a lease whose term is measured by a period equal to or longer than a week but shorter than a month, five calendar days before the end of that period; and
(4) In a lease whose term is measured by a period shorter than a week, at any time prior to the expiration of that period.
A notice given according to the preceding Paragraph terminates the lease at the end of the period specified in the notice, and, if none is specified, at the end of the first period for which the notice is timely.
Acts 2004, No. 821, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.

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so not only do i want to leave, but I'd like some of my deposit back also since i did give him 10 days notice

Technically it would have been within his rights to tell me at any time in the last year to GTFO as long as 10 days notice was given as well right? Theres a reason these laws exist

30 days....but most leases cover this situation. Just because your lease has " expired", there is usually a clause that covers the month to month situation and calls for 30 day notice. At least my leases do and I use a generic lease. If the guy has been a good landlord why do want to be a bitch and find some loophole?

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I enjoy vague condescension and passive aggressive superiority.

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You're welcome

But if being superior means not talking out of my arse, then so be it. Crowdsourced legal advice apparently has a ways to go

Your dossier sucks, batman

It matters what kind of lease it is and it matters what the original term was.

OP is in the right neighborhood with those Code articles.

GRTiger will cover my malpractice insurance and also represent me before ODC

His lease expired. Nowhere in that post does it say it automatically becomes month to month on expiration of the original lease

my butt hurts so baddddddd

that was pretty good.

La Civ Code art 2721 et seq.