The only advantage to not having a written lease is you can terminate the tenancy sooner in most cases. All tenants are presumed under Ohio law to have a month to month tenancy if there is no written lease. This means that either the tenant or the landlord can terminate the tenancy with proper written notice. So a landlord can terminate a month to month tenancy by providing 30 days written notice. Landlords often screw this up though. For example, today is April 9. I cannot give written notice today and require the tenant to be out by May 9. Ohio law requires a landlord to provide written notice before May 1 to terminate a tenancy by May 31. So any notice provided from April 9 through April 30 would only allow the tenancy to end on May 31. If I provide written notice on or after May 1, then the tenant has until the end of June to vacate.
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