[msandford]

I'll agree that often times the law says that. But if he's not making much money on the house (slumlords don't have premium properties and so they can't charge premium prices) then asking a tenant to stay with someone else could (emphasis COULD!) be a small kindness.

Before people go bananas on me let me explain. If the woman is out of the normal lease term and is now living month to month then the landlord could raise the rent. And if he's not making much money on the house then he might have to raise the rent to offset whatever money he spends putting this woman up in a hotel. So that would end up costing her quite a bit.

Of course I'm speculating wildly here that she was out of her lease and that he had the ability to raise her rent; maybe it was rent-controlled. Or perhaps he was making money hand-over-fist renting a poorly maintained property for a lot of money while treating his tenants poorly.

I do know that rarely is there a slam-dunk one way or the other, no matter what the subject is.