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Month-to-Month Termination Notice

A month-to-month termination notice is a landlord’s written notice that ends a rental with no fixed end date, on a day that gives the tenant at least the notice the state requires.

As of October 27, 2026, under Florida Statutes Section 83.57(3), either side ends a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days’ written notice before the end of a monthly period.1

The Georgia Department of Community Affairs states that a landlord ending a tenancy at will must give the tenant 60 days’ notice to leave.2

For a Pennsylvania lease of one year or less, or one with no set length such as month to month, the landlord’s notice to quit at the end of the term allows 15 days from service.3

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Month-to-Month Termination Notice rules by state

Month-to-Month Termination Notice: rules by state
StateMonth-to-month noticeOfficial state formChecked
California——
Florida30 days1—
Georgia60 days2—
Illinois—Yes4
Michigan—Yes5
New York—Yes6
Pennsylvania15 days3—
Texas——
See the termination notice rules

$9.95 per document, filled in for your state. Government forms are free on each agency’s website. You pay for the preparation, never for the form.

When to use one

  • You rent month to month and want the home back, to sell it, move in or renovate.
  • A fixed-term lease ended and the tenant stayed on, paying rent monthly.
  • You need a dated, written notice to show a court if the tenant stays past the date.

Not the right document? It is not for late rent or a lease violation, which take a different notice, and it does not end a fixed-term lease before its end date.

Who signs

Landlord
The owner, or the manager authorized to end the rental
Tenant
Each adult named on the rental agreement

Have at hand

  • Property address, unit and county
  • The date the tenancy began
  • The last day of the tenancy, counted from your state’s notice period
  • A mailing address where the tenant returns keys and sends a forwarding address

What our termination notice covers

  1. 1Notice to end a month-to-month tenancy
  2. 2End of the tenancy
  3. 3Notice period
  4. 4Moving out
  5. 5Rent until the tenancy ends
  6. 6Security deposit
  7. 7Questions
  8. 8Signatures
  9. 9Proof of delivery

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Where this information comes from

State rules come from each state’s own statutes, agency pages and forms, with the date we read them.

  1. Florida Statutes Section 83.57 (2026), Termination of tenancy without specific term flsenate.gov · checked Oct 27, 2026 Open the official page (opens in a new tab) ↩
  2. Georgia Landlord-Tenant Handbook (Georgia Department of Community Affairs, revised 8-29-24) dca.georgia.gov · checked Oct 27, 2026 Open the official page (opens in a new tab) ↩
  3. Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951 (Pennsylvania General Assembly, unconsolidated statutes) palegis.us · checked Oct 27, 2026 Open the official page (opens in a new tab) ↩
  4. Notice of Non-Renewal of Lease or Termination of Tenancy, form E-TN 3506.2 (Illinois Supreme Court approved form, PDF) ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net · checked Oct 27, 2026 Open the official page (opens in a new tab) ↩
  5. Notice to Quit to Recover Possession of Property, SCAO Form DC 100c (Michigan courts, PDF) courts.michigan.gov · checked Oct 27, 2026 Open the official page (opens in a new tab) ↩
  6. Written Notice to Terminate (Move Out) (New York State Unified Court System, fillable PDF) webfiles.nycourts.gov · checked Oct 27, 2026 Open the official page (opens in a new tab) ↩