[UGAalum94]

This post kind of violates my own ideas about politeness and avoiding unnecessary contentiousness. I apologize in advance.

Awesome Ed, you seem a little delusional about what your rights might be. You don't have a right to start living someplace and expect to stay there despite the wishes of the owner because the terms were undefined.

Rather than having more protection because you don't have a lease, the landlord can probably just kick you out for anything. Any rights you might normally have about rules for eviction likely don't even apply, and non-payment of rent isn't the only thing you could be evicted for.

And it sounds like, despite what the landlord may have verbally agreed to with you, you are exceeding what was agreed to by having someone live with you.

Why don't you call the police and run your interpretation by them and see what they think? Ask them if you have a right to stay on someone else's property despite not having a lease and having incurred the displeasure of the owner.

What exactly is your situation? Who is the landlord? How long has your friend been living in the landlord's house or bothering him about the phone? Why don't you all have cell phones? Why are you posting about this on GreekChat?

ETA: I live in Georgia, and although we make it pretty easy to evict people, even here, it looks like you'd get a month's notice without a lease. And this is assuming that you were breaking the lease with your friend living there. Some states are downright scary with how many rights tenants have, IMO, just based on googling. GreekChat is so educational.