Orange County, Ca. Do I Have Any Legal Rights In This Situation?

location: Orange County, CA.

I’ve signed a 1 year lease for a room in a house where the landlord lives and he also rents out 2 more rooms. It started in July at $1250 a month for a large bedroom with my own fridge and 2 nice windows. It’s in a nice area very close to Newport, so I don’t want to have to give this up. It’s also the best room that he’s renting out. The other 2 can’t get as much money as mine. If I moved out he could get $1600 and he is trying to get me to leave.

He’s been texting and emailing me saying that I can get my deposit back if I move out in 6 days. When that didn’t work, he said that he will give me my deposit back and let me break the lease if I give him 30 days notice. I told him that I’m staying.

The next day he said that I have caused all the burners on the stovetop damage from my cooking and I’m forbidden from using the entire kitchen!

He wrote me that he is the owner and what he say goes and that I’m a nobody.

All I made was a quesadilla and my own new pan and didn’t spill anything. (Also I’m on his video camera showing me at the stove not being messy) I replied that I’ve only used it 5 times in 4 months and that it’s not working right because there’s 3 people who fry meat in oils constantly. I pointed out that there’s been problems igniting the burners and 4 out of 5 don’t ignited at all and it’s obviously been that way for a long time. He cited the Arson CPC 451 & 452 that he will pursue me with. I said I will call the gas company to come over and inspect the stove. The next day he cleaned it and all the burners are now working.

The kitchen floor has grime & dirt all around the bottom of the stove and he insists it’s clean lol. I’d already taken pictures of the floor and the frying pans showing the grease on the outside of them. I sent them to him. He ignored them and emailed that he is going to call the police to come over and explain to me that he’s allowed to voice & video record me in the common areas and that he heard me talking about the dirty floor to another roommate. Now he “*cking hates me because I’m a bitch and a troublemaker.

He wrote that “why don’t you just move out if you’re so unhappy here.”

This is just the latest thing he’s done to pressure me to leave and I don’t know what to do. I really don’t want to be bullied into putting myself into a more expensive place, with an expensive deposit that I have rush into. I’m only home to sleep M-F and on the weekends I’m pretty tired from work so I accept that things don’t have to be perfect for me to be ok.

What I need to know is:

1. Can I legally use the stove & microwave? There’s nothing in the lease about losing the kitchen usage.

2. Does this rise to the level of illegal behavior? Trying to force me out and no quiet enjoyment living with this harassment.