It is not easy for landlord to get possession.
Tenants the law is in your favor , just because you do not take proper care and hence you face problems.
1) Pay rents regularly and demand rent receipts. If landlord does not accept rent or do not give rent receipts apply to the court for deposit of the rent in the court.
2) Land lords can not increase rent , you will get protection from court., file suit for fixation of standard rent.
3) If there is no lease agreement the harm will be more to landlord than tenant.
4) It is a myth that eleven months leave and license agreements can be renewed again and again. It is not legal. The damage / harm will be more to landlord than tenant.
5) Landlords can seek possession for i) default for rent payment ii) sub tenancy without permission and structural changes in premises without legal permission. Take proper precautions to avoid these traps.
6) Landlords seek possession for personal needs also. Here you must be most diligent in collecting evidence of his other properties, history and actual need. If tenant can prove that he will have more difficulties than the landlord than no eviction is possible on this ground.
7) Reply any notice by taking most expert legal advice only. Mistakes made in reply of notice can not be corrected later.
8) The landlords and their advocates as a rule make mistakes in over confidence , only expert legal advice can help you to take its benefit.
9) You must take assistance from hard working and expert legal person from beginning. Once the initial steps are lost no body can help you. Most of the tenants do just the reverse , they take advice from immature persons in the beginning and run to experts at later stages when things go out of control so nothing can be done . Read any SC judgment in favor of landlords and you will find the same story.