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Question: My lease agreement with my landlord ended in November 2018. We are still living in the Unit, but she gave us a notice to vacate by april 6th 2020. She never made us sign another lease agreement for the last year and a half. I'm choosing to move out March 12th but the landlord is saying I still have to pay March's rent because my roommate is staying until March 31st. Am I obligated to stay and pay March's rent even though there is no new lease agreement and I signed a notice to vacate by April 6th. Which I'm leaving before that.

Answer: When a written lease expires and neither the landlord nor the tenant terminates the rental agreement, the rental agreement continues on a month-to-month basis, and the terms of the original lease continue to apply unless the landlord or the tenant gives the other person 30 days’ advance written notice, in which case the terms of the original lease stop applying at the end of that 30-day period (A.R.S. 33-1375).