Housing & Tenant · Eviction Notice
Eviction Notice by State
How many days of written notice a landlord must give before filing an eviction, and how that number changes with the reason. For each state, cited to the statute.
Read this first: the notice depends on the reason
There is no single eviction notice period. The number of days a landlord must give depends on why they are ending the tenancy. Unpaid rent usually gets the shortest notice, from a 3-day pay-or-quit in California and Florida to a 5-day notice in Illinois, a 10-day notice in Pennsylvania, and a 14-day rent demand in New York. A fixable lease violation often gets its own, sometimes longer, notice to cure.
Ending a tenancy for no cause is different again, and several states tie it to how long you have lived there: California uses 30 or 60 days, New York 30, 60, or 90. In a few states the lease itself can shorten or waive the notice entirely (Texas and Pennsylvania), so the statutory number is only a starting point. A notice is never the whole story: the landlord still has to file in court and win before anyone can be removed.
Pick your state
The rent notice, the lease-violation notice, and the no-cause period on each card.
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What these pages are, and what they aren't
Each state page is a reference for the eviction notice periods and the neutral steps a tenant can take. They are deliberately not advice for your specific case: your written lease and any local ordinance can change the answer, so each page links to the statute and a tenant-help resource. This is legal information, not legal advice.