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Since the old lease has expired and is no longer valid and you have signed a new lease the landlord I believe is required to provide a copy to you. I think someone is snowing you.|||I can%26#039;t imagine any state would allow one party of a contract to withhold the contract from the other party. You are certainly entitle toa copy of your lease. How can you know what it says if you don%26#039;t have it?
If your last signed lease expired, you don%26#039;t have a lease. No lease, you%26#039;re a month-to-month tenant. In real estate, there%26#039;s no such thing as verbal...not verbal anything. If it%26#039;s not in writing, it doesn%26#039;t exist.
There%26#039;s some department in your town or county that deals with landlord/tenant issues. Call the mayor%26#039;s office or the county administrator%26#039;s office and ask for the number of whoever takes care of that. Your local elected officials can also tell you who to call with almost anything of this nature.