The landlord notice deadline checker
Pick your state, the notice you need to serve, and the date you want it to take effect. The checker counts backward under your state’s own counting rule and prints the exact last-safe serve date — with the service methods and the statute. Free.
Find my serve date — free Rules checked October 2026
The paper that goes with the date
The checker gives you the date. The kit gives you the notices: pay or quit, non-renewal / termination, and rent increase letters generated from these same checked deadlines, a letter builder that fills in your dates and names, the move-in and move-out inspection checklists, and the proof-of-service checklist.
One-time payment. No subscription. The checker stays free either way.The checker
The rent is late and the notice period is the case. Three business days in Florida, three court days in California, fourteen days in New York — counted three different ways. The checker counts the way your state counts.
Non-renewal and termination periods run by tenancy and by how long the tenant has lived there — 30, 60, or 90 days in New York alone. In just-cause states the checker routes you to the cause requirement first, because a date without a cause is a defective notice.
An increase is a notice too, with its own period and its own tiers. Where the state sets no increase-only period, the checker says so instead of borrowing the termination number.
How it works
State, notice type, tenancy, and how long the tenant has lived in the unit — the four facts the deadline actually turns on.
The date you want the notice to take effect. The checker works backward from it, skipping the days your state does not count.
The verdict prints the last-safe serve date, the counting rule, the allowed ways to serve, and the statute — then the proof-of-service habits that keep the date from being argued away.
Start from your state
A deadline on this site appears only where it was checked in the statute itself, with the citation beside it. A state whose cell is not yet published routes you honestly instead of printing a borrowed number.
Why this exists
Free non-renewal templates print “[Notice Period, e.g., 30 days]” and leave the landlord to guess the number the whole case turns on — and the free guides contradict each other, with Florida’s month-to-month period still printed as 15 days on pages that never caught the 2023 change to 30. This checker computes the date from the statute, prints the counting and service rules with it, and dates every figure: Rules checked October 2026.
From the guides
The 30-day answer, the statute, and why half the internet still says 15.
Calendar days, business days, and court days are three different clocks.
California and New York require a cause, not just a calendar.