Eviction Notice

A hiring of real property for an unspecified term renews under section 1945 unless a party gives written notice of intent to terminate at least as long before expiration as the term itself, not exceeding 30 days, and…

Text making it unlawful for a landlord, for the purpose of influencing a tenant to vacate, to engage in the listed conduct: theft or extortion under the cited Penal Code sections, force, willful threats or menacing…

An owner ending a California residential periodic tenancy must give at least 60 DAYS' written notice, and 30 days where occupancy is under one year or on a qualifying sale to a natural-person buyer who will reside…

A tenancy or other estate at will, however created, may be terminated by the landlord's written notice, served in the manner prescribed by Code of Civil Procedure section 1162, to remove from the premises within a…

THE TENANT PROTECTION ACT. After a tenant has occupied a residential unit for 12 months, a landlord may terminate only for JUST CAUSE, stated in the notice, with a cure opportunity for curable breaches and RELOCATION…

Text applying section 1161 to commercial real property after a rent default: if the notice identifies the amount as an estimate and the amount is reasonably estimated, the tenant remains subject to judgment for…

A landlord shall not terminate or fail to renew a tenancy based on an act of abuse or violence against a tenant, immediate family member or household member if the landlord has received the documentation the section…

Text stating how notices under sections 1161 and 1161a are served: personal delivery;

THE NOTICE TO QUIT is the first step in a Connecticut eviction and the section prescribes its grounds, FORM and delivery, including the statutory period before a summary process complaint may be served.

How a residential eviction is actually executed, including removal and the handling of unclaimed possessions. The step landlords most often get wrong after winning.

Connecticut pretermination notice for a tenant's material noncompliance with § 47a-11, the rental agreement or the rules: before summary process, except for nonpayment, serious nuisance or a § 47a-11(h) violation, the…

Connecticut text barring a landlord from bringing a possession action, demanding a rent increase or decreasing services within six months after the tenant's good-faith complaint to officials or a fair rent commission, a…

Connecticut text on serving a nonresident or absent occupant: the notice may be served on the person in charge of the premises or, if none, in the manner of §§ 52-57 or 52-57a at least ten days before the quit date, and…

Illegal use of the premises voids the lease as the section provides. A distinct ground from non-payment.

GOOD CAUSE PROTECTION for tenants in buildings or complexes of five or more units, or in a mobile manufactured home park, who are SIXTY-TWO OR OLDER or who have a physical or mental disability, including where a…

What counts as nuisance for summary process purposes. Narrower than the colloquial sense; check it before pleading nuisance.

Retaliation is a defense to summary process. A landlord acting shortly after a complaint to a housing authority or a repair demand should expect this defense; document the independent reason.

A rental agreement extends automatically where neither party gives the required notice, generally on a month-to-month basis. Tell a landlord that silence renews the tenancy.

Delaware service text: a notice required by the Code is served personally, or on the tenant by leaving a copy at the rental unit or usual abode with an adult resident, or in lieu of that by registered, certified or…

Delaware text stating when a person has notice of a fact: actual knowledge, receipt of a notice under the Code, or reason to know from the facts and circumstances.

The landlord must give the tenant the official SUMMARY of the Code, and failure to do so has consequences the section states. This is a delivery obligation at the start of the tenancy;

The tenant's right to terminate at the beginning of the term in the circumstances the section describes. Relevant where a unit is not as promised.

The landlord must deliver possession at the start of the term. Read with section 5304 for the tenant's remedies if they cannot.

A condition depriving the tenant of a substantial part of the bargain: WRITTEN NOTICE PLUS 15 DAYS FOR THE LANDLORD TO REMEDY, then the tenant may terminate.

Delaware text requiring the Justice of the Peace Court to establish, by April 27, 2024, a post-filing residential eviction diversion program with an initial mediation conference and a housing counselor for the tenant.

Delaware text: a summary possession proceeding begins by filing a complaint for possession, after which the court issues process and serves the complaint with a notice of the hearing time and place and the stated…

How a rental agreement's term runs and how it is terminated, including the notice periods. A defective notice defeats a Delaware eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

A tenant victim, or a minor victim's parent or guardian, of an intrafamily offense under § 16-1001(8) IS RELEASED FROM THE LEASE on giving the housing provider written notice plus either a § 16-1005 order or…

Limits how much notice a housing provider may require from a tenant vacating after the lease term ends. A landlord-side lease that demands 60 days may exceed what this section allows.

Prescribes how a notice to quit is served, including personal delivery, delivery to a person of suitable age at the premises, and posting with mailing.

Gives the District agency entry and inspection powers and sets the owner's corrective-action and notice duties for lead hazards. A landlord-side lease should reserve the access needed to comply.

Establishes the summary possession action in the Superior Court and the summons that starts it. It is the procedural end point of every District lease default clause.

D.C. text requiring the possession summons to be served at least 14 days before the initial hearing, personally, on a person over 16 in possession, or by posting with a mailed copy within three calendar days and a…

D.C. text stating that when real estate is leased for a certain term no notice to quit is necessary and the landlord is entitled to possession on expiration of the term.

A commercial month-to-month or quarter-to-quarter tenancy ends on a 30-day written notice to quit either way between housing provider and tenant.

A tenancy at will is terminated by 30 days' notice to quit. Useful where the District lease contemplates a holdover or an unwritten arrangement.

Governs a tenant holding over after the term and the notice required to end that tenancy. The lease's holdover article should be drafted against it.

Florida text stating that when the rental agreement is terminated and the tenant does not vacate, the landlord may recover possession by filing a complaint in county court under the summary procedure of section 51.011,…

The landlord's remedies when a tenant breaches or leaves early, including the liquidated damages or early termination fee option the section permits IF the lease contains the required provision in the statutory form.

Security deposits and advance rent: check permitted custody, interest, disclosures and exceptions.

Electronic statutory notices require the voluntary signed addendum with each valid email address and the prescribed elections, revocation and update terms. Delivery is when sent unless returned undeliverable;

Landlord maintenance duties and statutory exclusions or permitted written modifications depend on the type of dwelling.

The notice periods for ending a tenancy with no fixed term, by rental period. Get the period right; it is the most common Florida eviction defect.

Fixed-term agreements may require reciprocal end-term notice of 30 to 60 days. Landlord notices use the manner prescribed in 83.56(4).

Florida text on the tenant's defenses in an action for possession for nonpayment, including material noncompliance with section 83.51(1) after 7 days' written notice and retaliatory conduct under section 83.64, the…

Florida text on the writ of possession after judgment for the landlord, executed by the sheriff after 24 hours' notice posted on the premises, and on removal of personal property found on the premises.

Limits and conditions an award of attorney's fees in a Maryland landlord-tenant action. A one-sided fee-shifting clause in a Maryland lease should be checked against it.

Requires the landlord of residential rental property to include specified provisions in a written lease, including the statement of the tenant's rights and the landlord's obligations, and provides for a penalty where…

The OWNER of an affected property must give the tenant the Department's tenant-rights notice at lease execution or inception and at least every 2 years after, with the current § 6-818 inspection certificate.

Maryland text prohibiting eviction or other retaliatory action against a tenant of property subject to the lead-paint provisions of the Environment Article for providing information to the landlord under those…

Lets a tenant deduct from rent the payments the tenant made to a utility service provider, including a new-account security deposit, where an oral or written lease for an affected dwelling unit requires the landlord to…

Includes a certificate of mailing and separate choices to decline or make a binding offer. Its mailing-date instruction must be read with section 8-119(c)(4), which uses delivery by the landlord;

Distinguishes the notice solicitation from a tenant offer, includes proof-of-mailing fields, and uses receipt for the tenant offer deadline. Read section 8-119(d) for the conditional trigger and matching sales price;

DHCD requires its current Tenants Bill of Rights attached to every lease without editing the published version. The publisher describes annual updates by October 1 and links its printable versions and translations.

THE OWNER OF AN AFFECTED PROPERTY MUST REGISTER IT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, once, by December 31, 1995, or at the time of an election under § 6-803(a)(2);

Massachusetts text for non-dwelling premises: on nonpayment under a written lease the landlord may terminate as the lease provides or, absent such provisions, by at least fourteen days' written notice to quit, and the…

Recovering possession after a tenancy at will has been terminated. The step after the section 12 notice.

A residential lease provision purporting to relieve the landlord from liability for negligence is VOID. Do not draft one.

A lease provision waiving the tenant's right to statutory notices is void. Massachusetts residential leases cannot contract around the notice regime.

How a lease is terminated for non-payment of rent, including the tenant's statutory right to cure by paying within the period the section allows. The cure right is what a landlord most often overlooks.

THE STRICTEST SECURITY DEPOSIT STATUTE IN THIS COLLECTION, and the one that generates Massachusetts landlord liability.

A landlord or agent who retaliates for a tenant's violation report or union activity owes the greater of actual damages or one to three months' rent plus costs and fees; confirm the current amounts and window.

Massachusetts text requiring the court in a nonpayment summary process case to grant a continuance where the tenancy is being terminated solely for nonpayment of a residential unit, the nonpayment was due to financial…

Massachusetts text allowing a residential lessor to sue for possession before a written lease of at least six months expires, on the stated conditions: the signed lease annexed to the summons, no filing before the last…

Massachusetts text making it a defense to summary process that the action or the preceding termination was taken in reprisal for the tenant's enforcement of housing laws, reporting of violations, tenants' union activity…

Before any judgment of possession under the Anti-Eviction Act, except nonpayment of rent under subsection a.

Allows a court to stay the issuance of a warrant of removal for up to six months on terms including payment of rent.

A tenant who holds over and pays rent after a term expires becomes a month-to-month tenant on the same terms, not a year-to-year tenant.

Within 30 days after the tenancy or license ends the landlord must return the deposit plus the tenant's portion of interest or earnings, less charges permitted by the lease, by personal delivery or registered or…

For landlords covered by 46:8-27, provide each occupant or tenant the registration certificate required by 46:8-28 when a new tenancy is created.

Lets a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence, or whose child is, terminate the lease on 30 days' written notice with specified documentation, and limits liability to rent through the termination date.

Complete LAD definitions, including disability, real property, publicly assisted housing and the conditioned owner-resident two-family/room-rental exceptions. Federal and New Jersey exceptions differ.

Text for tenancies outside the Anti-Eviction Act: a tenant may be removed by the Superior Court, Law Division, Special Civil Part for holding over after the term ends and after demand and written notice for delivery of…

In cases under 2A:18-53(a), NO JUDGMENT FOR POSSESSION ISSUES UNLESS THE TENANCY WAS TERMINATED BY NOTICE TO QUIT: three months for at-will or year-to-year, one month for month-to-month, one term's notice for any other…

No landlord may evict or fail to renew a lease of premises covered by 2A:18-61.1 except for good cause as defined there, and a successor owner or landlord may not remove such a tenant except for good cause, where…

Lists the grounds for a summary proceeding and requires a written 14-day demand for rent before a nonpayment proceeding. A New York lease's default clause cannot substitute a shorter demand.

Text on the notice to quit where no landlord-tenant relationship exists: a special proceeding may be maintained after a ten-day notice to quit is served in the manner prescribed by section 735, on eleven listed grounds…

Text of the nonpayment procedure that applies where the appellate division's rules for a particular court so provide: the notice of petition is returnable before the clerk within ten days after service;

Text barring a landlord from serving a notice to quit or commencing a proceeding to recover possession in retaliation for a tenant's good faith complaint to the landlord or a governmental authority, good faith action to…

Text on holdovers: where a tenant whose term is longer than one month holds over, the holding over alone does not give the landlord the option to hold the tenant for a new term;

Requires a written rent receipt for any payment not made by personal check, an annual statement of payments on request, and written notice by certified mail when rent has not been received within five days of the due…

The Department of State's mandatory agency disclosure for rentals under Real Property Law § 443, setting out landlord's agent, tenant's agent, broker's agent and dual agency, with the signature acknowledgment.

Text of the service method that section 713 and other predicate-notice provisions incorporate: personal delivery to the respondent;

Before raising the rent by more than 5% or refusing to renew a residential lease, the landlord must give written notice of 30, 60 or 90 days depending on how long the tenant has occupied the unit or the length of the…

Sets the notice required to terminate a monthly tenancy in New York City. Read it together with § 226-c, which now supplies the longer occupancy-based periods.

THE THREE-DAY NOTICE TO LEAVE THE PREMISES is the prerequisite to an Ohio eviction and must be served at least three days before the action, by certified mail or by the other means the section allows, AND must contain…

Ohio text stating that no summons issues until a written complaint is filed describing the premises and the unlawful entry or detention, and that a minor tenant may not be listed as a defendant when a parent or adult…

Ohio text allowing a landlord, when the tenant fails to fulfill an obligation under section 5321.05 that materially affects health and safety, to deliver a written notice specifying the act or omission and a termination…

Ohio text on which judges may hear forcible entry and detainer actions, the two-year period for bringing an action, and the chapter's definitions of tenant, landlord and related terms.

Who may be removed by Ohio's forcible entry and detainer action, which is the eviction proceeding. Confirm the tenancy falls within it before drafting.

Ohio text on the summons in a forcible entry and detainer action: service at least seven days before trial, the conspicuous statutory language every residential summons must contain, and the clerk's mailing and service…

The Ohio landlord's mandatory obligations: comply with building, housing, health and safety codes materially affecting health and safety, keep the premises fit and habitable, maintain common areas, supply running water…

The tenant's statutory obligations. The counterpart to section 5321.04 and the basis for a landlord's breach claim.

Where a tenant has deposited rent with the court over a condition complaint, the landlord applies under this section for its release. The landlord's answer to a rent-deposit case.

Pennsylvania's unconsolidated Landlord and Tenant Act, published as a complete act.

Text of the act on utility discontinuance notices to tenants; section 11 makes it unlawful for a landlord ratepayer, or its agent or employee, to threaten or take reprisals against a tenant because the tenant exercised…

A contract or LEASE entered into by the declarant before the unit owners elect their own executive board may be terminated without penalty on the notice the section requires.

The cooperative Act's defined terms, including proprietary lease, cooperative interest and proprietary lessee. These are the words a cooperative occupancy agreement has to use;

Pennsylvania Code text of the magisterial district judge rules for possession actions: action means an action by a landlord against a tenant for the recovery of possession of real property brought before a magisterial…

The magisterial district judge serves the complaint by first class mail to the tenant's last known address, noting the mailing on the docket, and by delivering a copy to the sheriff or a certified constable, who serves…

After a judgment for possession arising out of a non-residential lease the landlord may file a request for an order for possession after the 15th day following entry of the judgment, and subdivision B sets the timing…

At any time before actual delivery of the property, in a case for possession solely for failure to pay rent, the tenant may satisfy the order for possession by paying the executing officer the rent actually in arrears…

THE NOTICE TO VACATE is the prerequisite to a Texas eviction: generally at least THREE DAYS unless the lease provides otherwise, delivered as the section allows. A defective notice defeats the suit;

The tenant's remedies where a landlord fails to repair after proper notice, including termination, repair and deduct, and damages. Advise a landlord on the condition of the property before advising on rent.

SELF-HELP IS TIGHTLY LIMITED. A Texas landlord generally may not interrupt utilities, remove doors or windows or the tenant's property, or lock the tenant out except on the narrow statutory conditions, and the tenant…

Texas text prohibiting a landlord from removing doors, locks, fixtures or appliances except for bona fide repair, and from intentionally preventing a tenant from entering except by judicial process or in the…

Texas text prohibiting a landlord, within six months after a tenant in good faith exercises a right, requests repairs, complains to a governmental entity or participates in a tenant organization, from retaliating by…

The eviction suit itself and the limits on it. Read with section 24.005 on the notice that must precede it.

Texas text on eligibility to recover attorney's fees in an eviction suit: a written demand to vacate stating that fees may be recovered if the tenant does not vacate before the 11th day after receipt, sent by registered…

Texas text on the writ of possession after judgment, including the definition of premises, the earliest issuance date, and service and execution by the sheriff or constable. Read the complete section.

Floodplain notice is generally required at or before lease execution with landlord and tenant signatures; a known flood-damage event within five years calls for the additional notice.

The landlord's repair duty and the notice the tenant must give to trigger it. Texas conditions the tenant's remedies on following the statutory notice route; set it out in the lease.

Lets the landlord accept rent with a written reservation without waiving a pending termination, and gives the tenant a statutory right of redemption by paying all rent, late charges, costs and fees before the return…

Virginia text on acceptance of rent with reservation: a landlord who accepts full payment of rent, damages, fees and costs may not proceed with eviction for nonpayment alone, but may accept partial payment and proceed…

A notice by either party changing any term of a tenancy at will is itself a notice to vacate, given in accordance with the rental agreement or as otherwise required by law.

Nonresidential lease scope, term, rent and assignments text. Read the complete provision, including scope, definitions, exceptions and effective dates, before applying it to this agreement.

The statement the Department of Housing and Community Development is required to develop and publish, which § 55.1-1204(B) obliges a landlord to provide with every written rental agreement, together with the DHCD…

The landlord must comply with building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety, make all repairs needed to put and keep the premises fit and habitable, keep common areas shared by two or more units of a…

A tenant who is a victim of family abuse, sexual abuse or other criminal sexual assault, stalking, or trafficking may end that tenant's obligations by serving the landlord written notice EFFECTIVE 28 DAYS AFTER SERVICE,…

All publisher versions are preserved with their effective-date headings. Determine the operative version and transition conditions for the matter; do not treat future amendments as present law.

Virginia text on what a rental agreement may contain, including requirements for notice of intent to vacate or terminate, the written-agreement and statement-of-tenant-rights requirements, and the section's rules on…

The defined terms fix the economics of the lease: "rent" is all money other than a security deposit owed or paid to the landlord under the agreement, including prepaid rent more than one month ahead;