Free Idaho Landlord Forms
Every Idaho landlord form we publish, organised by the stage of the tenancy it belongs to, each one paired with the Idaho Code section behind it — including the two separate warnings a three-day notice has to carry, and the deposit deadline that is two numbers rather than one.
Every form linked on this page is free, fillable in your browser, and downloadable as a PDF with no account, no membership and no paywall. Idaho’s landlord rules are split across Title 6 chapter 3, which covers unlawful detainer and the deposit, and Title 55, which covers termination, rent increases and fees. Title 55 chapter 3 was renumbered in 2025, so a great deal of published Idaho guidance now cites sections that no longer exist.
The short version
- Nonpayment — three days, and the notice must state the amount due.
- It must also carry TWO separate warnings. One is a validity requirement; the other decides whether you get your attorney fees.
- Lease breach — three days, with a genuine three-day cure right that “save[s] the lease from forfeiture”.
- Ending a month-to-month takes not less than one month — which is not the same thing as thirty days.
- A residential rent increase needs thirty days, not the fifteen that older guidance gives.
- There is NO add-days-for-mailing rule.
- There is NO deposit cap.
- The deposit deadline is 21 days AND 30 days — two numbers doing two different jobs.
- There is NO statutory entry-notice rule in Idaho at all. Not twenty-four hours, not “reasonable”.
The Three-Day Notice Must Carry Two Warnings
Idaho’s pay-or-vacate period is three days under § 6-303(2), which makes a tenant guilty of unlawful detainer “after default in the payment of rent… and three (3) days’ notice, in writing, requiring its payment, stating the amount which is due, or possession of the property, shall have been served upon him” — and, where there is one, on any subtenant in actual occupation.
Warning one is a content requirement of the notice itself. Section 6-303(2) continues: “Such notice shall also notify the tenant that if a court enters judgment against him, then he will have seventy-two (72) hours, if he is a residential tenant, and seven (7) days, or longer if granted by the court, if he is a commercial tenant or a tenant with a tract of land five (5) acres or more, to remove his belongings from the premises before the landlord may remove and dispose of such property”.
Warning two decides whether you recover your fees. Section 6-324: “For attorney fees to be awarded in cases requiring the three (3) days’ notice as set forth in section 6-303 2., Idaho Code, it shall be necessary that the three (3) days’ notice advise the tenant that attorney fees shall be awarded to the prevailing party.”
A hand-drafted Idaho notice very commonly carries the first and omits the second. The case still runs; the fee award does not.
One helpful feature: the notice does not go stale quickly. “Such notice may be served at any time within one (1) year after the rent becomes due.”
Breach of a covenant — three days, with a real cure right
Section 6-303(3) covers “a neglect or failure to perform other conditions or covenants of the lease… including any covenant not to assign or sublet”, again on three days’ written notice requiring performance or possession.
The cure right is genuine and broad: “Within three (3) days after the service of the notice, the tenant, or any subtenant in actual occupation of the premises, or any mortgagee of the term, or other person interested in its continuance, may perform the conditions or covenants of the lease, or pay the stipulated rent… and thereby save the lease from forfeiture.” There is a limit built in: where the violated covenant “cannot afterward be performed”, no performance notice need be given at all.
Assignment, subletting or waste against the lease is treated differently again — it terminates the lease by itself, and the landlord is entitled to restitution “upon service of three (3) days’ notice to quit upon the person or persons in possession”.
The controlled-substance ground has NO notice period at all. Section 6-303(5) makes it unlawful detainer “If any person is, or has been, engaged in the unlawful delivery, production or use of a controlled substance on the premises… during the term for which the premises are let to the tenant”. No three-day notice is prescribed for it. What the subsection actually does is route the case onto the expedited bench-trial track. Guidance describing an “Idaho three-day drug notice” has borrowed the number from the nonpayment subsection.
See our Idaho eviction notice laws guide.
Service: Three Tiers, and No Extra Days for Mail
Section 6-304 sets out a ladder. Personal delivery to the tenant first. If the tenant is absent from both residence and usual place of business, leave a copy “with some person of suitable age and discretion at either place, and sending a copy through the mail addressed to the tenant at his place of residence”. If neither can be ascertained and no suitable person is found, affix a copy “in a conspicuous place on the property, and also delivering a copy to a person there residing, if such person can be found; and also sending a copy through the mail”. A subtenant is served the same way.
Two mailing traps in one section.
Mailing is never a standalone method. It appears only as a component of substituted or posted service. You cannot simply post a three-day notice and rely on it.
And there is no add-days-for-mailing rule. Verified absent from the whole of Title 6 chapter 3. The three days do not become five or six because a copy went in the post. Anyone adding mailing days is importing another state’s procedure.
Every Idaho Landlord Form, by Stage of the Tenancy
An alphabetical index is the least useful arrangement, because a landlord arrives knowing what has happened, not what the document is called. These are ordered by where you are in the tenancy.
Starting the tenancy
- Idaho residential lease agreement — and note that in Idaho the lease carries unusual weight, because permitted deposit deductions are tied to the deposit arrangement itself rather than to a statutory list.
- Lead-based paint notice — required by federal law, not Idaho law, for any dwelling built before 1978.
- Move-in / move-out condition checklist — not required by Idaho statute, and precisely for that reason the only way you will ever separate damage from normal wear and tear, which the statute defines and bars you from charging for.
During the tenancy
- Notice to enter the property — Idaho imposes no statutory notice period, which makes this a lease-driven document. Use it anyway; the written record is the whole protection.
- Rent increase notice — thirty days for a residential rent increase, and the same thirty for a non-renewal.
- Late rent notice — Idaho has no statutory grace period, but every fee must be reasonable and must already be in the agreement.
When the tenant breaches
- Three-day notice to pay rent or quit — with the amount due, the belongings warning and the fee warning.
- Notice to cure or quit — three days to perform the covenant, with the cure right open to subtenants and mortgagees too.
- Unconditional quit notice — for assignment, subletting or waste against the lease, and where the breached covenant cannot be performed afterwards.
Ending the tenancy without fault
- Notice of non-renewal — thirty days for a residential non-renewal, and not less than one month to end an estate at will.
- Tenant notice to vacate — section 55-208 runs both ways, so the same one-month minimum binds the tenant.
After the tenant moves out
- Security deposit itemisation — a signed statement itemising the amounts retained, the purpose of each, and a detailed list of expenditures.
- Security deposit return letter — on twenty-one days if your lease is silent, thirty at the outside.
Termination: One Month, Fifteen Days, and Thirty Days
Idaho keeps three different numbers in play, in two different chapters, and mixing them is the most common Idaho form error.
| What you are doing | Notice | Section |
|---|---|---|
| Ending a tenancy at will | “to remove from the premises within a period of not less than one (1) month, to be specified in the notice” — and the tenant may end it the same way | § 55-208 (Title 55 ch. 2) |
| Changing the terms of a month-to-month lease generally | At least fifteen days before the expiration of the month; the notice “shall of itself operate and be effectual to create and establish, as a part of the lease, the terms, rent and conditions specified” if the tenant holds over | § 55-304(1) |
| Raising residential rent, or not renewing | At least thirty days before the non-renewal or before the increase takes effect | § 55-304(2) |
“Not less than one month” is not thirty days. In a thirty-one-day month it is thirty-one. Idaho’s termination rule is expressed as a month, not a day count, and the notice must specify the date.
And the fifteen days is now wrong for a residential rent increase. Subsection (2) opens “Notwithstanding subsection (1)” and overrides it. Any source giving a bare fifteen days for an Idaho rent increase predates the amendment that added it.
A reliable staleness tell: Title 55 chapter 3 was renumbered in 2025. The change-of-terms rule was § 55-307 and is now § 55-304; the fee-reasonableness rule was § 55-314 and is now § 55-305. A page still citing 55-307 or 55-314 has not been updated since mid-2025 — which tells you something about the rest of that page too.
See our Idaho lease termination laws and Idaho rent increase laws guides.
The Deposit: No Cap, and Two Deadlines
Section 6-321 is short and does a lot of work. It contains no cap — no dollar figure and no multiple of rent — and none appears anywhere else in Title 6 chapter 3 or Title 55 chapter 3. Section 55-305 reinforces the point from the other direction: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the amount that can be charged for rent.”
The deadline is TWO numbers, and this is where Idaho pages go wrong.
Section 6-321(2): “Refunds shall be made within twenty-one (21) days if no time is fixed by agreement and, in any event, within thirty (30) days after surrender of the premises by the tenant.”
Twenty-one days is the default that applies when the agreement fixes no time. Thirty days is the absolute ceiling the parties may fix by agreement. A lease fixing thirty days is lawful; a lease that is silent gives you twenty-one; a lease purporting to fix forty-five is void as to the excess. Publishers routinely collapse this into a flat “twenty-one days” or a flat “thirty days”, and both are wrong on their own.
| Rule | Detail |
|---|---|
| What counts as a deposit | “Amounts deposited by a tenant with a landlord for any purpose other than the payment of rent shall be deemed security deposits” — so a fee by another name is still a deposit |
| Normal wear and tear is barred | “The landlord shall not retain any part of a security deposit to cover normal wear and tear”, defined as “that deterioration which occurs based upon the use for which the rental unit is intended and without negligence, carelessness, accident, or misuse or abuse of the premises or contents by the tenant or members of his household, or their invitees or guests” |
| Permitted deductions | Only “amounts necessary to cover the contingencies specified in the deposit arrangement”. Idaho ties deductions to your own agreement rather than to a statutory list — which makes a well-drafted deposit clause unusually important here |
| Itemisation | Any partial refund must be accompanied by “a signed statement itemizing the amounts lawfully retained by the landlord, the purpose for the amounts retained, and a detailed list of expenditures made from the deposit” |
| Sale of the property | “If the property changes ownership during a tenancy, the new owner shall be liable for refund of the deposits” |
| Trust account — third-party managers only | A deposit on a residential rental “managed by a third-party manager of a landlord shall be maintained in a separate account at a federally insured financial institution”, separate from the agent’s operating account. It does not apply to a property owner, to managers sharing members or principals with the owner entity, to a real estate licensee, or to a qualifying nonprofit |
| Penalty | No fixed multiplier. Failure to return a deposit as required is a ground for the § 6-320 tenant action, and § 6-317 permits the court to enter judgment for three times the actual damages assessed |
See our Idaho security deposit laws guide.
Entry: Idaho Has No Rule
There is no statutory landlord-entry requirement in Idaho. Not twenty-four hours, not “reasonable notice”, not restricted hours. We confirmed this by reading the complete section lists of Title 6 chapter 3, Title 55 chapter 2 and Title 55 chapter 3 rather than by inference. Entry is governed only by your lease.
The “Idaho requires twenty-four hours” claim that circulates widely appears to come from the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, which Idaho has not adopted.
There is one genuine Idaho entry regime, and it is not this one: the Manufactured Home Residency Act governs manufactured-home community lots and has its own protections, including a real retaliation ban. Those rules do not reach an ordinary apartment or house rental, and sources that quietly generalise them make Idaho look far more tenant-protective than it is.
Because the statute is silent, a written notice is not a compliance step in Idaho — it is your evidence. Use one anyway. See our Idaho landlord entry laws guide.
Habitability and the Tenant’s Three-Day Demand
Section 6-320(a) lets a tenant sue for damages and specific performance for six listed failures: “(1) Failure to provide reasonable waterproofing and weather protection of the premises; (2) Failure to maintain in good working order electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, cooling, or sanitary facilities supplied by the landlord; (3) Maintaining the premises in a manner hazardous to the health or safety of the tenant; (4) Failure to return a security deposit as and when required by law; (5) Breach of any term or provision of the lease or rental agreement materially affecting the health and safety of the tenant…; and (6) Failure to install approved smoke detectors in each dwelling unit, to include mobile homes, under the landlord’s control.”
But the tenant must go first: “Before a tenant shall have standing to file an action under this section, he must give his landlord three (3) days written notice, listing each failure or breach upon which his action will be premised and written demand requiring performance or cure.” Only if the failure is uncured after three days may the action begin.
Note that the deposit sits inside the habitability action. That is what connects a missed deposit deadline to the treble-damages provision. See our Idaho habitability laws guide.
Court: Twelve Days to Trial
| Stage | Rule |
|---|---|
| Complaint contents | Five required elements under § 6-310(1), including “That all notices required by law have been served upon the defendant in the required manner” — or that none was required |
| Trial — 12 days | “the court shall schedule a trial within twelve (12) days from the filing of the complaint, and the service of the summons, complaint and notice of trial setting on the defendant shall be not less than five (5) days before the day of trial” |
| Bench trial on the expedited track | An action “exclusively for possession of a tract of land of five (5) acres or less for the nonpayment of rent”, or on the controlled-substance ground, or for forcible detainer, “shall be tried by the court without a jury” |
| Jury otherwise | Where an issue of fact is presented, it “must be tried by a jury, unless such jury be waived as in other cases” |
| Continuances — 2 days | “no continuance shall be granted for a longer period than two (2) days unless the defendant applying therefor gives an undertaking… conditioned for the payment of the rent that may accrue” |
| Removal — the cumulative sum | A residential tenant has seventy-two hours to remove belongings (seven days commercial or five acres or more). Then: “After the time required for a tenant to remove his belongings under this subsection AND three (3) days after the finding of the court, the sheriff shall restore possession of the premises to the plaintiff” |
| Abandoned property | The landlord “may, subject to any security interests…, remove and dispose of all remaining property of the tenant… without any further compensation or consideration to the tenant”, and may be awarded reasonable removal costs on good cause shown |
| Appeal bond | No appeal by the defendant until an undertaking with two sureties is given for the rental value from commencement to final judgment. No filing bond is required of the landlord |
| Attorney fees | “In any action brought under the provisions of this chapter, except in those cases where treble damages are awarded, the prevailing party shall be entitled to an award of attorney fees” — subject to the § 6-324 notice-warning condition |
The removal arithmetic is cumulative and easy to shorten by mistake. Seventy-two hours plus three days after the court’s finding — not seventy-two hours flat. Counting it as three days total puts the sheriff at the door early.
Eviction records are now shielded after three years
Section 6-303A, added in 2024, provides that a defendant in an unlawful detainer case filed on or after 1 January 2025 will, “without the filing of a petition”, have all records shielded from public disclosure if the entire case was dismissed, no appeal is pending, and “at least three (3) years have passed from the day on which the eviction was filed or the parties stipulated to shielding”. That is automatic shielding, not a tenant application — and it matters to anyone relying on Idaho eviction records in screening.
See our Idaho tenant screening laws guide.
Fees, Late Charges and Bounced Cheques
There is no numeric late fee cap and no statutory grace period. What Idaho imposes instead is a reasonableness standard plus an agreement requirement. Section 55-305(1): “Any fees imposed on a residential tenant, including fees for the late payment of rent, shall be reasonable.”
Subsection (2) is the operative restriction: an owner may not charge “a fee, fine, assessment, interest, or other cost: (a) In an amount greater than that agreed upon in the rental agreement; or (b) That is not included in the rental agreement” — unless the agreement is oral, or the owner gives thirty days’ written notice of the change. These provisions apply to rental agreements entered into or renewed on or after 1 July 2023.
Bounced cheques run on the general statute, § 28-22-105, not on a landlord rule. The drawer is liable for interest at twelve per cent per year from dishonour and “cost of collection not to exceed twenty dollars ($20.00) or the face amount of the check, whichever is the lesser” — with a set fee of up to twenty dollars available where a written agreement or a posted point-of-sale notice provides for one. The claim ripens only after the cheque is unpaid fifteen days following a notice of dishonour, and the section does not apply to a justifiable stop-payment order. See our Idaho late fee laws guide.
What Changed Recently
| Change | Where |
|---|---|
| Title 55 chapter 3 renumbered — old § 55-307 is now § 55-304; old § 55-314 is now § 55-305 | 2025, ch. 65 |
| Rent control preempted. No local unit may enact a measure that would “otherwise regulate rent, fees, or deposits charged for leasing private residential property”, or force participation in an optional federal housing assistance programme | § 55-306, added 2025, ch. 65 |
| New squatter-removal remedy at § 6-310A, added 2025 and amended again in 2026 | 2025 ch. 222; 2026 ch. 82 |
| Automatic eviction-record shielding for cases filed on or after 1 January 2025 | § 6-303A, added 2024 |
| Small claims limit shown as fifteen thousand dollars, amended in 2026 | § 1-2301 |
Which Idaho Form Do I Need?
- The tenant has not paid rent. Three-day notice stating the amount, with both warnings.
- A lease covenant has been broken. Three days to perform — and anyone with an interest in the lease may cure.
- The tenant has assigned, sublet or committed waste against the lease. The lease is already terminated; serve three days’ notice to quit.
- There is drug activity. File on that ground; no notice period is prescribed and the case goes to a bench trial.
- You want a month-to-month tenant out with no fault. Not less than one month, with the date stated.
- You want to raise the rent. Thirty days — not fifteen.
- You need to get into the property. There is no statutory rule; follow your lease and put it in writing.
- The tenant has moved out. Twenty-one days if the lease is silent, thirty at most, with a signed itemised statement and a detailed list of expenditures.
How to Fill Out an Idaho Three-Day Notice
- State the exact amount of rent due. That is a content requirement of § 6-303(2), not a nicety.
- Include the belongings warning — seventy-two hours residential, seven days commercial or five acres and over.
- Include the attorney fee warning. Without it, § 6-324 bars the fee award.
- Name every tenant, and any subtenant in actual occupation. The statute requires service on both.
- Serve it up the ladder — personally, or suitable-age plus mail, or post plus deliver plus mail.
- Do not rely on mailing alone. It is never a standalone method.
- Do not add days for mailing. Idaho has no such rule.
- Remember you have a year from when the rent fell due to serve it.
What Happens If the Form Is Wrong
The distinctively Idaho failure is the missing fee warning. Your case survives; your costs do not, and in a small nonpayment matter the fees are usually the larger number.
The second is a fifteen-day rent increase, drawn from guidance that predates the residential subsection.
The third is the collapsed deposit deadline — returning on day twenty-eight under a silent lease, on the belief that thirty days is the rule.
And the fourth is the deposit clause itself. Because Idaho ties permitted deductions to “the contingencies specified in the deposit arrangement”, a vague deposit clause quietly narrows what you can lawfully keep, whatever the tenant did.
What This Page Does Not Have
We would rather scope this honestly than promise documents we do not host. Idaho landlords also commonly want a rental application, a sublease, a roommate agreement, a commercial lease, a pet addendum, a lease amendment and an adverse action notice. Those are not published here as Idaho-specific forms.
Three limits we want to state plainly rather than paper over.
We give no effective date for the 2026 changes. The code shows a 2026 amendment to the small claims limit and a further 2026 amendment to the squatter-removal section, but we could not reach the session laws to confirm effective dates or emergency clauses. Treat the fifteen-thousand-dollar small claims figure as the number the code currently shows, and check the session law before relying on it.
Manufactured-home community lots are a different statute. The Manufactured Home Residency Act has its own rules, including a retaliation provision that has no general residential equivalent. Nothing on this page applies to a lot in a manufactured home community.
Local ordinances are not covered — though note that § 55-306 now sharply limits what an Idaho city may do about rent, fees and deposits.
Common Idaho Landlord Form Mistakes
- Omitting the attorney fee warning from the three-day notice.
- Omitting the belongings warning, which is a content requirement of the notice.
- Failing to state the amount due.
- Not serving a subtenant in actual occupation.
- Mailing the notice and nothing else. Mailing is only ever part of substituted or posted service.
- Adding days for mailing. No such rule in Idaho.
- Inventing a three-day drug notice. That subsection prescribes none.
- Treating “not less than one month” as thirty days.
- Giving fifteen days’ notice of a residential rent increase. Thirty.
- Citing § 55-307 or § 55-314. Renumbered in 2025.
- Believing Idaho caps deposits. It does not.
- Returning the deposit on day thirty under a silent lease. Twenty-one applies.
- Sending an unsigned itemisation, or one without a detailed list of expenditures.
- Deducting for normal wear and tear, which the statute defines and bars.
- Deducting for something the deposit arrangement never mentioned.
- Assuming a twenty-four-hour entry rule. Idaho has no entry statute.
- Applying manufactured-home-community rules to an ordinary rental.
- Shortening the post-judgment removal clock to seventy-two hours instead of seventy-two hours plus three days.
Free Fillable Forms Versus the Paid Idaho Form Sites
Idaho’s results page runs to a little over two thousand words at its deepest, and the striking thing about it is how much of the advice is quietly out of date. The section renumbering happened in 2025, the residential rent-increase subsection arrived before that, and automatic eviction-record shielding started with cases filed in January 2025. A page written in 2023 looks fine and is wrong in three places.
That is the real argument for pairing a form with the rule behind it. A three-day notice template is easy; a three-day notice carrying both statutory warnings, served up the correct ladder, with no mailing days added, is the version that actually gets you possession and your fees.
Every form linked from this page is free, fills in the browser, and downloads as a finished PDF. There is no account, no trial and no upsell attached to the documents themselves. What we ask in return is straightforward: if you are about to hand keys to someone, run the screening first, because nearly every dispute described on this page is cheaper to prevent than to litigate.
Idaho Landlord Forms: FAQ
How many days is an Idaho notice to pay rent or quit?
Three days. Idaho Code § 6-303(2) requires “three (3) days’ notice, in writing, requiring its payment, stating the amount which is due, or possession of the property”, served on the tenant and on any subtenant in actual occupation. The notice “may be served at any time within one (1) year after the rent becomes due”.
What must an Idaho three-day notice say?
Three things. The amount due. The belongings warning — that after judgment the tenant has seventy-two hours if residential, or seven days if commercial or on five acres or more, to remove belongings. And, to preserve fees, the § 6-324 warning “that attorney fees shall be awarded to the prevailing party”. Omitting the fee warning does not void the notice but bars the fee award.
Does Idaho add days when a notice is mailed?
No. There is no add-days-for-mailing rule anywhere in Title 6 chapter 3. Mailing also is never a standalone method: under § 6-304 it appears only as a component of substituted service (suitable-age person plus mail) or posted service (post plus deliver plus mail). Personal delivery is the first tier.
How much notice ends an Idaho month-to-month tenancy?
Not less than one month, under § 55-208 — notice “to remove from the premises within a period of not less than one (1) month, to be specified in the notice”. That is a month, not thirty days, and the section runs both ways so a tenant ends the tenancy the same way.
How much notice does an Idaho rent increase need?
Thirty days. Section 55-304(2): “Notwithstanding subsection (1)… in all leases of residential property… the landlord shall provide the tenant written notice of any increase in the amount of rent charged or of the landlord’s intention of nonrenewal of the lease at least thirty (30) days before” the non-renewal or the increase takes effect. The fifteen-day figure in subsection (1) governs other changes of terms, not residential rent increases.
Is there a security deposit limit in Idaho?
No. Section 6-321 contains no dollar figure and no multiple-of-rent cap, and none appears elsewhere in Title 6 chapter 3 or Title 55 chapter 3. Note that “amounts deposited by a tenant with a landlord for any purpose other than the payment of rent shall be deemed security deposits”, so renaming a charge does not take it outside the section.
How long does an Idaho landlord have to return a deposit?
Both twenty-one and thirty days. Section 6-321(2): “Refunds shall be made within twenty-one (21) days if no time is fixed by agreement and, in any event, within thirty (30) days after surrender of the premises.” Twenty-one is the default where the lease is silent; thirty is the maximum the parties may agree. A lease fixing forty-five days is void as to the excess.
What can an Idaho landlord deduct from a deposit?
Only “amounts necessary to cover the contingencies specified in the deposit arrangement” — Idaho ties deductions to the agreement rather than to a statutory list — and never normal wear and tear, defined as deterioration from intended use “without negligence, carelessness, accident, or misuse or abuse”. Any partial refund needs a signed statement itemising the amounts, the purpose, and a detailed list of expenditures.
How much notice must an Idaho landlord give before entering?
Idaho has no statutory entry-notice requirement at all — no twenty-four-hour rule, no “reasonable notice” rule and no restricted hours. We confirmed this by reading the complete section lists of Title 6 chapter 3, Title 55 chapter 2 and Title 55 chapter 3. Entry is governed only by the lease. The twenty-four-hour figure often quoted comes from a uniform act Idaho has not adopted.
How fast does an Idaho eviction go to trial?
Within twelve days of filing, with service “not less than five (5) days before the day of trial” under § 6-310(2). Nonpayment on five acres or less, the controlled-substance ground and forcible detainer are tried by the court without a jury. A continuance may not exceed two days unless the defendant gives an undertaking for accruing rent.
How long after an Idaho judgment before the sheriff removes the tenant?
The periods are cumulative. A residential tenant has seventy-two hours to remove belongings, then, under § 6-316(2), “After the time required for a tenant to remove his belongings under this subsection and three (3) days after the finding of the court, the sheriff shall restore possession”. Commercial tenants and tracts of five acres or more get seven days, or longer on good cause.
Are Idaho eviction records permanent?
No, and shielding is now automatic for newer cases. Section 6-303A applies to unlawful detainer cases filed on or after 1 January 2025: records are shielded from public disclosure “without the filing of a petition” where the entire case was dismissed, no appeal is pending, and at least three years have passed since filing or since a stipulation to shield was filed.
Related Idaho Guides
- Idaho landlord-tenant laws — the full statutory overview.
- Idaho eviction notice laws — the three-day notices and the service ladder.
- Idaho security deposit laws — the twenty-one and thirty day split.
- Idaho rent increase laws — the thirty-day residential rule.
- Idaho lease termination laws — the one-month estate at will rule.
- Idaho breaking lease laws — early termination and mitigation.
- Idaho late fee laws — reasonableness and the agreement requirement.
- Idaho landlord entry laws — and why there is no statutory rule.
- Idaho habitability laws — the six grounds and the three-day demand.
- Idaho pet and ESA laws — pets, deposits and assistance animals.
- Idaho tenant screening laws — screening, reports and record shielding.
Published by Tenant Screening Background Check · Editorial Team
Established 2004. Our editorial team has spent two decades helping landlords and property managers run lawful tenant screening and follow state landlord-tenant codes across all fifty states. Idaho’s second-publisher tier was almost entirely blocked on this pass, so nearly every quotation here comes from the Legislature’s own code text, read section by section. Where we confirmed an absence — no deposit cap, no entry rule, no add-days-for-mailing — we did it by reading complete chapter section lists rather than by failing to find something.
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Last reviewed 2026. This page is general information about Idaho landlord-tenant law, not legal advice. It rests substantially on the Idaho Legislature’s own code text; the usual secondary publishers were blocked on this pass. Title 55 chapter 3 was renumbered in 2025, so older citations may not resolve. We give no effective dates for the 2026 amendments because we could not reach the session laws, and nothing here applies to manufactured home community lots, which fall under a separate act. Confirm the current position with the court or an Idaho attorney before serving a notice or filing a case.
