Almost everywhere in the US the standard is 12 month leases. Sometimes a landlord will do a 6 month lease. When these leases lapse (or if no lease was signed),

Almost everywhere in the US the standard is 12 month leases. Sometimes a landlord will do a 6 month lease. When these leases lapse (or if no lease was signed), the relationship is governed by landlord-tenant law, which usually states that the landlord must provide 14 or 30 days of notice when removing a month-to-month tenant. I'm not very familiar with rent control practices, but in 99.9% of the US, this thing where the tenant is allowed to indefinitely block the usage of your own home is not done.