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Free Texas 3-Day Unconditional Quit Notice

Statutory eviction notice for INCURABLE lease violations in Texas — serious lease violations including substantial damage, illegal use, and material breaches. The tenant has NO right to cure and must vacate within three calendar days.

📄 Free Fillable PDF ⚠ No Cure — Vacate Only 🗓 Updated 2026
🚨FINAL NOTICE — NO CURE OFFERED: This is the harshest form of the Texas notice to vacate. Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005 creates no right to cure at all, so where the lease permits termination for the breach the tenant must vacate by the stated date or face a forcible detainer suit in the justice court.
⚖THE GROUND COMES FROM THE LEASE, NOT A STATUTE: No Texas statute enumerates eviction grounds for lease violations — the right to terminate for assignment without consent, unauthorised subletting, serious damage, nuisance conduct or unlawful use is whatever the written lease gives you. Quote the clause breached and the clause that permits termination.
📜STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005(a) — at least three days’ written notice to vacate before filing a forcible detainer suit, unless the written lease contracts for a shorter or longer period. Delivery under § 24.005(f-3). Counting under § 24.0042: weekends and state or federal holidays are counted, but the last day rolls forward off one.
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Critical: Use the right notice type

The Unconditional Quit Notice gives the tenant no chance to fix the problem. Use it only where the written lease permits you to terminate for this breach without first giving a cure period — Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005 governs the notice, not the ground. For curable lease violations (unauthorized pets, parking, noise, minor alterations), use a 3-Day Notice to Cure or Quit instead. For nonpayment, use a 3-Day Notice to Vacate. Giving a notice the lease does not authorise — or counting the days wrong under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.0042 — is the commonest reason a Texas forcible detainer suit fails.

Texas Notice Period

3 Days

Day Type

Calendar — § 24.0042

Statute

§ 24.005(a)

Right to Cure

None by statute

Form TypeEviction Notice
StateTexas
AuthorityTex. Prop. Code § 24.005
Updated2026

On this page

  1. What this form does and when to use it
  2. Texas statute and legal authority
  3. Step-by-step: filling out the unconditional quit notice
  4. Fillable form & PDF download
  5. Required information that makes the notice valid
  6. How to serve the notice on your tenant
  7. Texas eviction timeline
  8. What happens after the 3 days expire
  9. Common mistakes that get the notice dismissed
  10. Defenses a Texas tenant may raise
  11. Frequently asked questions
  12. Texas statute reference table

A Texas 3-Day Unconditional Quit Notice is the written notice to vacate that Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005(a) requires before a landlord may file a forcible detainer suit, given in its harshest form: vacate by the stated date, with no opportunity to cure. The statutory minimum is at least three days — but § 24.005(a) lets the parties contract for a shorter or longer period in a written lease, so read the lease before you count. Texas has no statutory catalogue of curable and incurable violations; the right to terminate for assignment without consent, unauthorised subletting, serious damage, nuisance conduct or unlawful use comes from the lease, not from chapter 24. Where the lease requires notice and an opportunity to cure, give a cure-or-vacate notice instead.