• Four notices from one set of questions

  Overdue rent, a lease that will not be renewed, a lease violation, or another reason. Each produces its own notice with its own title and wording.

• Overdue rent, with the detail

  Say whether more than one payment was missed, the amount and the date, and add a late fee or other charge with its reason. You can state how the tenant must pay, give an address, and require payment in person.

• A lease that is ending

  Record whether a periodic tenancy (weekly, monthly, yearly or another kind) or a fixed term is ending, or give your own reason for not renewing, and set the date the tenant must leave.

• A breach of the lease

  Describe what the tenant did, say what they must do to put it right and by when. Choose whether the notice warns them or also ends the lease if the breach is not corrected, and for how long they have.

• A notice period you set

  Choose 7, 14 or 30 days, or write your own period. There is no default, because the right period depends on your state, the reason and the kind of tenancy.

• One or two landlords, up to three tenants

  Name each landlord with an address and each tenant. The notice is addressed to every tenant named and given by every landlord.

• The lease and the property

  Add the property's address and the date the lease was signed, or leave lines to complete by hand.

• A proof of service form where it applies

  In California and Texas you can add a proof-of-service form for whoever serves the notice to complete. Whether you need one is for your lawyer to confirm.

• Nothing filled in that you did not choose

  No amount, date, period or ground is suggested. Each comes from your answer, or stays a line for you to fill in.

• A lawyer reviews it before it is used

  Your answers are prepared into a draft and reviewed by a qualified lawyer, rather than handed back to you as a finished form.

An eviction notice is the written notice a landlord gives a tenant before anything goes to court. Depending on the reason, it asks the tenant to pay what is owed, tells them a lease is ending, warns them about a breach of the lease, or tells them to leave. It names the tenant, the landlord, the lease and the property, and says what the tenant must do and by when.

The builder starts with one question, why you are ending the tenancy, and the notice you get follows from the answer: a notice to pay rent or quit, a notice of termination, a notice of lease violation, or a notice to quit. The questions after that are only the ones that notice needs.

This is one of the most state-dependent documents there is. Which grounds are valid, how much notice is required and how the notice must be served all differ by state, and sometimes by city. The builder does not state any of that. You choose the notice period, and a lawyer confirms the period, the grounds and the service before the notice is used, and the draft says so rather than leaving you to assume it is complete.

Not sure? Talk to an attorney about your situation first.

These are separate documents, for different jobs.

• Late-rent noticesNotify a tenant that rent is overdue.View document
• Lease termination noticesGive notice to end a lease.View document
• Notice-to-enter documentsGive a tenant notice before entering the property.View document
• Residential lease agreementsSet the terms for renting a home.View document

• When rent is overdue and a written demand is the first formal step
• When a lease reaches its end and the landlord does not want to renew it
• When a tenant breaks a rule in the lease and has been told informally already
• When the landlord needs the tenant to leave and wants the reason on record

• Lease termination noticesGive notice to end a lease.View document
• Late-rent noticesNotify a tenant that rent is overdue.View document
• Notice-to-enter documentsGive a tenant notice before entering the property.View document
• Maintenance request formGive tenants a form to ask for maintenance.View document