Thanks Gail. I have heard a lot of the same from many people I have spoken to, but then I stumbled upon a site that explicitly explains the tenant-landlord law of NJ. I can't post the link as I don't have enough posts, but if you google NJ Tenant rights its the first site that comes up. Below...
Apologies, I misspoke, he actually supplied us with a notice to quit (vacate) and gave us the reason I mentioned above. I am on a month to month lease, unwritten. My landlord lives in Texas so I think it would be pretty easy to prove that he himself is not moving in, but I wasn't sure if that...
My landlord just sent me an eviction notice giving me two months notice to get out of my apartment. The reason he gave is that "Landlord wishes to occupy your apartment for personal uses - daughter (leaving out name) shall occupy the unit outside of a landord-tenant relation".
I went to a...