Landlord notice deadlines — Texas
In Texas, the checked deadlines on this page cover: pay or quit, ending a tenancy. Each figure carries its statute and the stamp Rules checked October 2026. Run your exact dates through the checker — the period is only half the answer; the counting rule is the other half.
| Pay or quit | 3 calendar days — the tenant may pay and cure (Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005(a)). 3-day notice before filing. Since SB 38 (Acts 2025, 89th Leg., ch. 960, effective January 1, 2026): if the tenant was not late or delinquent before the current month, the notice MUST be a notice to pay rent or vacate, giving the tenant the chance to pay and stay; if the tenant was already delinquent in an earlier month, either that form or a plain notice to vacate may be used. The lease can contract for a shorter or longer period. Cure is guaranteed only on the pay-or-vacate form. |
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| End a tenancy | 30 days — month-to-month (Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001). One full month's notice: the tenancy ends on the later of the date stated in the notice or one month after the notice is given. 3 days — tenancy at will or by sufferance (Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005(b)). 3 days' notice to vacate. |
| How days are counted | The count includes weekends and holidays and excludes the day the notice is given; if the last day falls on a weekend or legal holiday, the deadline extends to the next non-weekend, non-holiday day (Tex. Prop. Code § 24.0042). |
| Allowed service methods | personal delivery to the tenant or to a resident aged 16 or older affixing the notice to the INSIDE of the main entry door mail (regular, registered, or certified) electronic delivery if the parties agreed in writing (Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005, as amended by SB 38) NOTE: posting on the OUTSIDE of the door was repealed by SB 38 effective January 1, 2026 — a notice served that way is defective |
| Just cause | No statewide just-cause requirement. |
| Sources checked | https://law.justia.com/codes/texas/property-code/title-4/chapter-24/section-24-005/ https://tenantscreeningbackgroundcheck.com/texas-eviction-notice-laws/ |
Raising the rent: No cap, and Texas bars cities from capping rents outside a declared disaster. No statute sets an increase-notice period — your lease is the contract that matters, and a fixed-term lease locks the rent until it ends.
Local rules sit on top of state law in many places — city just-cause lists, rent boards, and prescribed local forms. A state deadline is the floor of the analysis, never a promise that no local rule adds to it.
The paper that goes with the date
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