Tenants after a sale

Key statute sections

The sections that govern this subject, opened at the section in the full code. These links are separate from the document list below and are not affected by its filters.

• Code of Civil Procedure § 1161a

  Removing an occupant who stays after a three-day written notice to quit once the property was sold, including at a foreclosure or trustee’s sale.

• Code of Civil Procedure § 1161b

  A month-to-month or periodic tenant in possession when the property is sold in foreclosure must receive 90 days’ written notice to quit.

• Civil Code § 2924.8

  The notice to residents that is posted on the property and mailed with the notice of sale.

• Code of Civil Procedure § 715.010

  Enforcing a judgment for possession of real property with a writ of possession.

• Code of Civil Procedure § 715.020

  How the levying officer serves the writ of possession on an occupant or posts it on the property.