A Louisiana Tenant Notice to Vacate is the written notice, due at or before ten calendar days before the end of the month, a tenant gives a landlord to end a periodic tenancy under Louisiana Civil Code Article 2728. It identifies the rental unit, sets the last day of tenancy, provides a forwarding address for the security deposit, and creates the documentary record that protects you if the move-out is later disputed. The form on this page handles the statutory content automatically — you fill in the blanks, the PDF generates a clean, signature-ready notice, and you deliver it to your landlord.

In Louisiana, a tenant ends a month-to-month lease by notice given at or before ten calendar days before the end of the month, and the lease then ends at the end of that month (La. Civ. Code art. 2728(2)). If the term is measured by a period longer than a month, the deadline is thirty calendar days before the period ends; for a period of a week or more but under a month, five calendar days (art. 2728(1), (3)). For a residence the notice must be in writing (art. 2729).

What this form does and when to use it

The Louisiana Tenant Notice to Vacate is a written notice from the tenant to the landlord ending a periodic (typically month-to-month) tenancy under Louisiana Civil Code Article 2728. It serves three purposes at once: it gives the landlord the art. 2728 notice — for a month-to-month tenancy, delivered at or before ten calendar days before the end of the month — it specifies the last day of tenancy so rent obligations stop on a defined date, and it provides the forwarding address La. R.S. 9:3251 directs the tenant to furnish, to which the landlord sends the deposit and any itemized statement within one month after the lease terminates. Without a properly written and delivered notice, a tenant who simply moves out remains exposed to claims for additional rent and may have a harder time recovering the security deposit.

Use this notice when you have a periodic tenancy — month-to-month is the most common form, but the same rule applies to week-to-week or other periodic arrangements (with a corresponding shorter notice period for terms shorter than a month). The 10 days notice applies regardless of how long you have lived in the unit. Many states impose longer notice obligations on landlords than on tenants — those longer landlord rules do not flow back to tenants. As a tenant on a periodic tenancy in Louisiana, you give notice by the deadline in La. Civ. Code art. 2728 for your rental period — ten calendar days before the end of the month for month-to-month, thirty days for a period longer than a month, five days for a week or more.

This is not the right form for a fixed-term lease. If you have a lease with a defined end date and you intend to leave at the natural end of the term, the lease itself sets the end date — although it is good practice to send a written notice anyway to confirm your intent and give the landlord your forwarding address. If you want to leave a fixed-term lease early, the 10 days notice does not apply: you need either a lease provision authorizing early termination, the landlord’s written agreement to release you, or a statutory ground (uninhabitable conditions, domestic violence early termination, or military deployment under federal SCRA at 50 U.S.C. § 3955). Sending a art. 2728 notice on a fixed-term lease without one of those grounds typically does not end your rent liability under Louisiana law.

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Louisiana statute and legal authority

The tenant’s right to terminate a periodic tenancy in Louisiana is set out in Louisiana Civil Code Article 2728. The statute generally provides that a pe