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This Iowa Notice to Enter gives a tenant clear written notice before the landlord enters the rental unit. Iowa Code 562A.19 requires at least 24 hours of notice for all non-emergency entry at reasonable times – a single rule for every purpose. See our tenant screening laws by state hub and how to screen tenants guide to keep your Iowa tenancies documented from the start.

Complete the fields below to generate an Iowa Notice to Enter. Iowa Code 562A.19 requires at least 24 hours of notice for non-emergency entry at reasonable times – one rule for every purpose. The form records the date, time window, purpose, the persons entering, and how the notice is delivered.

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Iowa is a 24-hour-notice state. Under Iowa Code 562A.19, part of Iowa’s Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Law, a landlord may enter the dwelling unit to inspect the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations, or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors – but only after giving the tenant at least twenty-four (24) hours of notice and only at reasonable times. The 24-hour figure is written into § 562A.19(3), and it is a single rule: it does not change with the purpose of the entry.

The statute is built from a few interlocking commands, and reading them together is what keeps a landlord out of trouble. Subsection 1 tells the tenant not to unreasonably withhold consent to a listed entry. Subsection 2 lets the landlord enter without consent in an emergency. Subsection 3 carries the operative duty – no abuse of access, no using entry to harass, and, except in an emergency or where impracticable, at least 24 hours’ notice and entry only at reasonable times. Subsection 4 closes the door on freelancing: the landlord has no other right of access except by court order, as permitted by §§ 562A.28 and 562A.29, or where the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the unit. The sections that follow walk through what each of those pieces means in practice.

The right of access runs both ways, and each side has its own remedy. The tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent to a properly noticed entry, and if a tenant does refuse lawful access, § 562A.35(1) lets the landlord compel access by injunction or terminate, plus damages and fees. But the protections cannot be signed away: Iowa’s anti-waiver provision, § 562A.11(1)(a), means a lease clause cannot pre-waive the 24-hour notice or the reasonable-time limit, even though a tenant may consent to one specific entry on shorter notice. Where the teeth are, for a landlord, is the tenant-side remedy – and that lives not in § 562A.19 but in § 562A.35, the subject of the final section below.

Iowa Code 562A.19(1) frames entry around a specific, enumerated set of legitimate landlord functions, and a workable list of permitted purposes follows directly from the statutory text. The tenant is told not to unreasonably withhold consent to enter in order to inspect the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations, or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors. The unifying test the no-abuse clause implies is that the landlord must have a real, property-management reason listed in the statute to be inside the unit, not a pretext for checking up on or pressuring the tenant.

Repairs, decorations, alterations, and improvements are the most common reason a landlord needs access. The statute groups them together, so the same 24-hour notice covers a plumbing repair, a scheduled upgrade, or work the landlord is obligated to perform under § 562A.15 to keep the premises fit and habitable. Inspections are expressly permitted as well – annual condition checks, move-out walkthroughs, and pre-renewal assessments – and a clear notice describing the inspection keeps it from feeling intrusive. Supplying necessary or agreed services rounds out the maintenance-side purposes.

Showings are a frequent flashpoint, and the statute lists the full range: exhibiting the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors. A landlord may need to show the unit to a prospective tenant near the end of a lease, to a buyer or a buyer’s mortgagee if the property is on the market, or to a contractor pricing planned work. Each is a statutorily legitimate purpose, but each also brings strangers into the tenant’s home, so generous notice and reasonable scheduling matter most here. The 2025 Iowa Supreme Court decision in Butter v. Midwest Property Management arose from exactly this category – a marketing-period showing where the landlord drifted outside the agreed window and, a few times, gave no 24-hour notice at all.

It is worth being explicit about what is not a permitted purpose, because that is where the no-abuse clause of § 562A.19(3) bites and § 562A.19(4) slams the door. Entering to check whether the tenant is keeping the unit “well enough” with no maintenance reason, to look for lease violations on a hunch, to confront a tenant over a dispute, or simply to remind a tenant who controls the property are not among the statute’s enumerated purposes; § 562A.19(4) confirms the landlord has no right of access beyond consent, emergency, court order, the narrow §§ 562A.28-562A.29 situations, and abandonment. The discipline of writing the purpose on a notice is itself a filter: if a landlord cannot state a concrete, listed reason on paper, that is a strong signal the entry should not happen at all.

Two phrases in § 562A.19(3) do the real work for every routine entry: at least twenty-four hours’ notice and reasonable times. Unlike states that leave notice to a vague “reasonable” standard, Iowa fixes a hard floor – twenty-four hours – and a landlord should treat it as a minimum, not a target. Count the full 24 hours from when the tenant actually has the notice to the moment of entry; shaving the margin because the tenant “seemed fine with it” is how a routine visit becomes an unlawful entry under the statute.

How the notice reaches the tenant is part of whether it is effective. Iowa Code 562A.8 spells out the methods of service that count under the chapter – hand delivery to the tenant; delivery acknowledged in writing by an adult resident; personal service; mailing by both regular and certified mail; posting on the primary entrance door with the date of posting; or any method that results in the notice actually being received. The statute also provides that notice served by mail is deemed complete four days after it is deposited and postmarked, which matters when you are counting toward the 24-hour floor – a mailed entry notice has to be sent far enough ahead that the deemed-receipt date still leaves a full day before entry. For a same-week entry, personal delivery or door-posting is usually the practical choice.

On hours, “reasonable times” generally means normal daytime and early-evening hours on a non-holiday. Entry late at night, very early in the morning, or on short notice for a routine matter is hard to defend as reasonable unless the tenant has agreed to it or an emergency requires it. Matching the entry to the tenant’s schedule where practical, and offering a time window rather than a single rigid moment, both reinforce that the landlord is acting reasonably and within the access right the statute grants.

Reasonableness also has a frequency dimension that § 562A.19(3) makes explicit through its no-abuse and no-harass language, and that § 562A.35(2) backs with a remedy. A single, well-noticed entry to make a repair is plainly reasonable. A pattern of frequent entries, or repeated demands for entry, can cross the line into harassment even where each individual visit was announced, because at some point the sheer volume of intrusions interferes with the tenant’s possession. The safe practice is to consolidate work into as few visits as the task genuinely requires, give the full 24 hours each time, and keep a dated copy of every notice.

Iowa’s notice rule has exactly two written exceptions, and a careful notice practice respects both without stretching either. The clearest is a genuine emergency. Section 562A.19(2) lets the landlord enter without the tenant’s consent in an emergency, and § 562A.19(3) excuses the 24-hour notice in that situation. A fire, a flood, a gas leak, a burst pipe actively flooding the unit, or any other immediate threat to life, safety, or the property itself justifies entry at once, because waiting to give notice could turn a containable problem into a catastrophe.

The second exception is narrower and more easily abused: notice is also excused where giving it is impracticable. This is a companion to the emergency ground, not a synonym for “inconvenient.” Impracticability covers the rare case where notice genuinely cannot be delivered in time – not a landlord who simply did not get around to it, and not a desire to get ahead of a deadline. A form that mentions only emergencies understates the landlord’s actual position, which is why this template states both grounds; but a landlord who leans on “impracticable” to skip notice for ordinary, schedulable entries is inviting the very § 562A.35 claim the notice rule exists to prevent.

It helps to draw a bright line between a true emergency and mere urgency. A burst pipe, a gas smell, a fire alarm, or a report of a medical crisis behind a locked door are emergencies that justify immediate entry. A lease violation the landlord is eager to confront, a repair the tenant has been slow to schedule, or a wish to act before the weekend are urgent to the landlord but are not emergencies, and using the emergency label to cover them is exactly the overreach the no-abuse clause is meant to stop. Because an emergency or impracticable entry happens without the usual notice, documentation is the landlord’s protection: record the date and time, the nature of the emergency, what was found and done, and who entered, and notify the tenant promptly afterward. Scope matters too – an emergency justifies the entry needed to address it, not a general look around the unit.

Showings deserve their own treatment because they put the landlord’s legitimate business needs in the sharpest tension with the tenant’s right to peaceful possession, and because they generated Iowa’s most recent entry decision. The statute expressly permits exhibiting the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors, but each showing brings outsiders into an occupied home. The protection for both sides is the same 24-hour notice at a reasonable time, applied with extra care because showings cluster: a flurry of poorly-noticed showings can itself become an abuse of access under § 562A.19(3) even though no single one was at an unreasonable hour. Group showings into defined windows, give as much lead time as possible, and offer a way to reschedule.

Butter v. Midwest Property Management, decided December 31, 2025, is the cautionary tale. The lease there gave the landlord the right to show the unit on 24 hours’ notice, subject to the tenant’s consent, but the landlord sometimes entered outside the scheduled window and, on a handful of occasions, without any prior notice. The Iowa Supreme Court held that the entries made without the required notice were trespasses – reinforcing that the 24-hour rule is enforced, not aspirational – while also holding that where the tenants allowed a showing to proceed without objection, their implied consent defeated the trespass claim for that visit. The court affirmed damages measured per occurrence, using roughly one day’s rent for each unlawful entry.

The other two access situations are the absence and abandonment rules that § 562A.19(4) folds in by cross-reference to § 562A.29. During an absence of the tenant in excess of fourteen days, the landlord may enter at times reasonably necessary – a limited right that exists so the landlord can protect the property while the tenant is away, not a general license. Abandonment or surrender ends the possessory interest the notice rule protects: once the tenant has genuinely abandoned the unit or handed it back, the ordinary 24-hour rule no longer governs. But abandonment is a conclusion to reach carefully – treating a unit as abandoned when the tenant is merely traveling or hospitalized can expose the landlord to a trespass claim and the § 562A.35 remedy. Document the indicators and, when it is genuinely ambiguous, use legal process rather than self-help.

Even though Iowa fixes the entry duty by statute, the lease still shapes the day-to-day mechanics of access, and a tenant’s real-time consent still matters. The lease can spell out how showings, inspections, and maintenance visits are coordinated, can set notice practices more generous than the 24-hour minimum, and can fix the delivery channel the parties will use. What the lease cannot do is contract below the statutory floor. Iowa Code 562A.11(1)(a) makes a rental-agreement clause that has the tenant waive or forego rights or remedies under the chapter unenforceable, so a clause purporting to allow entry on less than 24 hours’ notice, or to strip the reasonable-time limit, does not override § 562A.19. (The one narrow exception in § 562A.11(1)(a) is for a single-family residence on land assessed as agricultural and located in an unincorporated area.)

A tenant’s consent matters in real time, and Butter shows just how much. Even where 24-hour notice would otherwise be required, a tenant who agrees to a specific entry – or who, as in Butter, allows a showing to proceed without objecting – has consented, and that consent defeats a later trespass claim for that visit. The cleanest practice is to memorialize consent with a text or email confirming the date, time, and purpose, so an agreed-upon visit cannot be recast as an intrusion later. But consent is entry-specific: agreeing to Tuesday’s showing is not blanket permission for an unannounced Thursday visit.

There is a firm limit landlords should not lose sight of, and in Iowa it is statutory rather than merely prudential. The no-abuse and no-harass language of § 562A.19(3) means a landlord cannot use even a broadly worded lease as a shield for harassment. A landlord who relies on a permissive clause to enter repeatedly, at unreasonable hours, or to pressure a tenant is not merely exercising a contract right; that conduct can trigger the § 562A.35(2) remedy – an injunction or termination plus actual damages not less than one month’s rent and attorney fees – regardless of what the clause says. A permissive clause expands the landlord’s ordinary access; it does not license abuse, and § 562A.11(1)(a) would void the part that tried to.

For that reason, the smarter drafting choice is usually a clause that is clear rather than maximal. A clause that tracks the statute – 24 hours’ notice, entry at reasonable times for the enumerated purposes, an emergency carve-out, and a stated delivery method that satisfies § 562A.8 – gives the landlord everything a normal operation needs while signaling good faith to a court. An “any time, no notice” clause buys very little real-world freedom, because the statutory duty, the anti-waiver rule, and the no-abuse limit cap it anyway, and it reads badly if the tenancy ever turns adversarial.

This is the heart of Iowa entry law and the part most often gotten wrong, because the remedy is not in the entry section. Iowa Code 562A.19 states the duty; the dedicated remedy lives in a separate section, Iowa Code 562A.35, titled “Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access.” The section is two-sided: subsection 1 protects the landlord when a tenant refuses lawful access, and subsection 2 protects the tenant when the landlord abuses it. The remedies below start with the statute written for exactly this problem.

Iowa Code § 562A.35(2) – the dedicated entry remedy

This is the primary, purpose-built remedy. Section 562A.35(2) provides that if the landlord makes an unlawful entry, or a lawful entry in an unreasonable manner, or makes repeated demands for entry otherwise lawful but which have the effect of unreasonably harassing the tenant, the tenant may obtain injunctive relief to prevent the recurrence of the conduct or may terminate the rental agreement. In either case, the tenant may recover actual damages not less than an amount equal to one month’s rent and reasonable attorney fees. The one-month-rent floor is the feature that distinguishes § 562A.35 from a bare trespass claim: even where a tenant’s provable out-of-pocket loss from an entry is small, the statute guarantees a damages floor and shifts attorney fees, which is why pleading § 562A.35 is usually stronger than pleading trespass alone.

Iowa Code § 562A.35(1) – the landlord’s mirror remedy

The same section protects the landlord. If the tenant refuses to allow lawful access – for instance, blocking a properly noticed, reasonable-time entry for a listed purpose – the landlord may obtain injunctive relief to compel access or terminate the rental agreement, and in either case recover actual damages and reasonable attorney fees. This is the statutory backstop behind the rule that a tenant “shall not unreasonably withhold consent”: an unreasonable refusal is not cost-free, and a landlord who has given correct 24-hour notice for a genuine purpose has the stronger position if the tenant simply stonewalls.

Common-law trespass

A landlord who enters a unit the tenant lawfully possesses, without a right of access and without consent, is also liable in common-law trespass – and in Iowa this is now firmly established for entry cases by Butter v. Midwest Property Management IC, LLC, No. 24-1752 (Iowa Dec. 31, 2025). Possession, not title, founds a trespass action, which is why a tenant in possession can sue a landlord who holds title but entered without the required notice. Butter also draws the boundary: a tenant’s consent, express or implied, negates trespass, so an entry the tenant waved through is not actionable. The case carries one important caution – the tenants pleaded trespass and sought fees under § 562A.12(8), but that fee provision covers rental-deposit actions, so no attorney fees were available on a bare trespass theory. The statutory § 562A.35 remedy, which expressly provides fees, is the cleaner vehicle.

Breach of quiet enjoyment and constructive eviction

Every Iowa lease carries an implied covenant of quiet enjoyment, and a landlord whose entries substantially interfere with the tenant’s beneficial use of the home can breach it; this is a common-law principle, not a code section, and should be described as such rather than pinned to a statute. If the entry conduct goes so far that it renders the premises untenantable, the tenant may treat it as a constructive eviction – but only if the tenant actually vacates within a reasonable time. Both theories overlap heavily with the § 562A.35 remedy; for most Iowa over-entry disputes, § 562A.35 is the cleaner statutory hook, with quiet enjoyment and constructive eviction available as supporting principles.

Retaliation is a separate protection that can also touch entry. Iowa Code 562A.36 prohibits a landlord from increasing rent, decreasing services, or bringing or threatening an action for possession after a tenant has complained to a code-enforcement agency, complained to the landlord of a § 562A.15 habitability violation, or organized or joined a tenants’ union. A good-faith complaint within the year before the alleged retaliation creates a presumption that the landlord’s conduct was retaliatory. If a landlord ramps up demands for entry or uses access to pressure a tenant after such a protected action, § 562A.36 can apply alongside the § 562A.35 entry remedy – but, like the anti-ouster rule in § 562A.26, it is a connected, distinct protection rather than the general entry remedy. Keeping each section in its lane – § 562A.19 for the duty, § 562A.35 for the abuse-of-access remedy, § 562A.26 for ouster, and § 562A.36 for retaliation – is what separates a correct Iowa entry guide from a borrowed one.

Iowa is unusual in giving a landlord two different ways to be measured for the same conduct, and which one applies turns on how the tenant frames the claim. Under the statutory remedy in § 562A.35(2), the floor is fixed: actual damages not less than one month’s rent, plus attorney fees, per the abuse of access. That floor does not require the tenant to prove a dollar of out-of-pocket loss; it attaches to the violation itself. Under a common-law trespass theory, by contrast, the measure is the actual harm from each intrusion – and Butter v. Midwest Property Management shows what that looks like in practice, with the trial court valuing each unlawful entry at roughly one day’s rent (and half a day’s rent for an extra entry on the same day). The two measures can diverge sharply: a handful of brief no-notice entries might be worth only a few days’ rent in trespass but trigger the full one-month-rent floor under § 562A.35.

The per-occurrence reality cuts in two directions, and a careful landlord internalizes both. Because trespass damages accrue per entry, a landlord who enters without notice repeatedly is not buying a single, bounded liability – each unlawful visit is its own wrong, and the count adds up. And because the statutory remedy carries a one-month-rent floor and fee-shifting, a tenant who pleads § 562A.35 rather than bare trespass can convert even a modest pattern of short-notice entries into a meaningful award. The practical takeaway is not to gamble on which measure a court will use; it is to give the full 24 hours every time so that neither measure ever attaches.

That is where the notice record earns its keep. The single most useful piece of evidence in an entry dispute is a dated notice that satisfies § 562A.8 – a notice the landlord can show was delivered, by a method the statute recognizes, the full 24 hours ahead. If the entry was consented to, a contemporaneous text or email confirming the tenant’s agreement does the same job, because Butter makes consent a complete answer to a trespass claim. If the entry was an emergency or genuinely impracticable to notice, a log written at the time – date, nature of the emergency, what was found and done, who entered – preserves the exception. Keep all of it in the tenant’s file for the life of the tenancy. The form on this page exists to generate the centerpiece of that file: a clean, dated, signed 24-hour notice of intent for every entry an Iowa landlord makes.

One last point ties the record back to the statute’s structure. Section 562A.19(4) limits the landlord to a closed set of access rights – consent, emergency, court order, the §§ 562A.28-562A.29 situations, and abandonment – which means that for the overwhelming majority of entries, the landlord’s authority rests entirely on having given proper notice or obtained consent. There is no general “the landlord owns the building, so the landlord can come in” right in Iowa law. A landlord who treats the 24-hour notice as the actual source of the right to enter, rather than a formality on top of it, will both comply with § 562A.19 and hold the documentation that defeats a § 562A.35 or trespass claim before it gains any traction.

Iowa entry law sits inside the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Law, but the duty to give notice and the tenant’s remedy for an abusive entry live in separate code sections – a distinction that trips up template after template. The access duty is in Iowa Code § 562A.19; the remedy for abuse of that access is in a different section, Iowa Code § 562A.35. The table below collects the authorities that actually govern entry in Iowa and the consequences of getting it wrong, so a landlord can see at a glance where each rule comes from and avoid the common error of citing the wrong section for the wrong purpose.

Read together, these authorities tell a coherent story that is easy to get wrong if you grab the first plausible-looking section. Iowa did legislate landlord entry, so the duty is statutory and concrete – at least 24 hours’ notice, entry only at reasonable times, and a flat bar on abusing the right of access, all in Iowa Code § 562A.19. But the consequence for breaking that duty is not housed in the same section. It lives in Iowa Code § 562A.35, which gives the tenant an injunction or termination plus actual damages not less than one month’s rent and attorney fees. A landlord who reads only § 562A.19 sees the obligation but misses the teeth; a tenant who reads only § 562A.19 may not realize a dedicated remedy with a one-month-rent floor sits a few sections later.

A word on how to use this reference responsibly, because the entry area is unusually full of citation traps. The over-entry remedy is § 562A.35 – not § 562A.19, which is only the duty, and not § 562A.34, the periodic-tenancy and holdover section that sits right beside it. The remedy for a lockout or an essential-services shutoff is § 562A.26, a separate ouster statute rather than the over-entry remedy, and retaliation is § 562A.36. The anti-waiver rule that keeps any of this from being signed away is § 562A.11(1)(a). On the case-law side, Butter v. Midwest Property Management is the current Iowa Supreme Court word on entry: it treats a no-notice entry as trespass yet lets consent defeat the claim, and it is a reminder that pleading the statutory § 562A.35 remedy – which carries fees – is usually stronger than a bare trespass count. Any template that fills these gaps with the wrong section is not making the page stronger; it is making it wrong.

None of this is a substitute for advice on a specific situation. The authorities here describe the general shape of Iowa entry law, but the outcome of any actual dispute turns on the exact lease language, the facts of the entries, and how a particular court reads them. The official Iowa Code on the legislature’s law portal is the best free starting point for both sides, and a qualified Iowa landlord-tenant attorney is the right resource when a real conflict is on the table. Used alongside disciplined, well-documented 24-hour notice, this form gives an Iowa landlord a clean, defensible record for every entry – which is the most reliable protection the law actually allows.

An Iowa Notice to Enter is the written notice a landlord or property manager gives a tenant before entering the rental unit. Iowa has adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Law, and Iowa Code 562A.19 sets the rule with unusual clarity: except in an emergency or where it is impracticable to do so, the landlord must give the tenant at least twenty-four hours’ notice before entering, and may enter only at reasonable times. The statute literally uses the words twenty-four hours, so there is no guessing about the floor, and it is a single rule that does not change with the purpose of the entry.

The detail that most generic content gets wrong is where the consequences live. Section 562A.19 states the duty, but the remedy for an unlawful or abusive entry is housed in a separate section, Iowa Code 562A.35 – and it is 562A.35, not 562A.19, that gives the tenant an injunction or termination plus actual damages not less than one month’s rent and attorney fees. Two neighboring sections compound the confusion: 562A.34 is periodic-tenancy and holdover, not entry, and a lockout or essential-services shutoff is 562A.26’s ouster remedy, not the over-entry rule. The body of this guide walks through each distinction with the statutory text.

Iowa balances the landlord’s right of access against the tenant’s, and both grounds for skipping notice – emergency and impracticability – appear together in 562A.19(3). The tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent to a properly noticed entry, and the protections cannot be signed away: the anti-waiver provision in 562A.11(1)(a) makes a clause that pre-waives the notice unenforceable, with a narrow carve-out for single-family residences on agricultural land in unincorporated areas. The most recent word from the courts, Butter v. Midwest Property Management IC, LLC (Iowa 2025), confirms that a no-notice entry is a trespass while a tenant’s consent can defeat the claim – all of which the sections below develop in full. This form records the date, time window, purpose, who will enter, and how the notice was delivered, so both sides have the same facts. Pair a consistent entry practice with disciplined tenant screening and a documented screening process so your Iowa tenancies are well-run from application through move-out.

• Iowa Code 562A.19 requires at least 24 hours of notice before any non-emergency entry.
• The 24-hour rule is a single standard – it does not vary by purpose (repairs, inspections, services, showings).
• Enter only at reasonable times for a legitimate purpose.
• Notice is waived only in a genuine emergency or where it is impracticable to give it.
• The tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent to a properly noticed entry (562A.19(1)); an unreasonable refusal lets the landlord compel access under 562A.35(1).
• The protections are non-waivable (Iowa Code 562A.11(1)(a)); a lease cannot pre-waive them, except for a single-family residence on agricultural land in an unincorporated area.
• The remedy for an unlawful or abusive entry is Iowa Code 562A.35 – injunction or termination plus actual damages not less than one month’s rent and attorney fees – not 562A.19 itself.

• Personal delivery to the tenant.
• Posting on the door, alone or combined with email.
• Email or text where the lease permits electronic notice.
• Certified mail for a documented record when timing allows the full 24 hours.

• Giving less than the statutory 24 hours of notice for a routine entry.
• Assuming inspections or showings need a different notice period – Iowa uses one rule.
• Treating only emergencies as waiving notice and forgetting the impracticability ground – or stretching either to skip notice.
• Entering at unreasonable times or repeatedly in a way that harasses the tenant.
• Relying on a lease clause that purports to pre-waive the 24-hour notice, which Iowa Code 562A.11(1)(a) makes unenforceable.
• Citing the wrong remedy section – the entry remedy is 562A.35, not the neighboring 562A.34 holdover section, and not 562A.26 (which covers a lockout or services shutoff).

• Always count the full 24 hours before entry, even when the tenant seems agreeable.
• State the exact purpose, time window, and persons entering.
• Offer a clear way to reschedule so the tenant has an alternative to refusing.
• Keep every signed notice on file – the one-month-rent damages floor makes the record worth it.

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