Notice to vacate

Example

A tenant on a month-to-month lease, in a state that requires 30 days’ notice, decides to move. They date and deliver the notice on October 1, 2026, with a move-out date of October 31 and a forwarding address for the deposit. Delivered on October 5 instead, the same notice would give only 26 days, short of 30, so the move-out date would need to move later.

In a lease it looks like…

Either party may end this month-to-month tenancy by giving the other at least 30 days’ written notice, delivered by hand or by first-class mail to the address in Section 1.

By state

The notice required depends on the state, the kind of tenancy and who is giving it, and a notice for unpaid rent or a lease violation follows its own, usually shorter, clock.

Notice to vacate by state