Texas Lease Is Ending: Nonrenewal and Termination Rules
Before a landlord treats a tenant as a holdover, the tenancy has to end correctly. The answer depends on whether this is a fixed-term lease, a month-to-month tenancy, or another periodic tenancy, and on what the written lease says about renewal and notice.
Check My Lease-Ending StepMonth-to-month
Section 91.001 generally makes the effective date the later of the date stated in the notice or one month after notice, unless a signed agreement changes the rule.
Fixed-term lease
There is no one-size-fits-all statutory nonrenewal period for an ordinary fixed-term residential lease. Check the lease for automatic-renewal, holdover, renewal, and nonrenewal clauses.
Special rules can override
Manufactured-home communities, subsidized housing, retaliation concerns, and other specialized situations should not use the ordinary workflow without separate review.
A lease-ending notice is not the same as a Notice to Vacate
A nonrenewal or tenancy-termination notice establishes when the tenancy ends. If the tenant remains after a valid termination, Texas Chapter 24 generally requires a separate Notice to Vacate before an eviction suit. LandlordAnswers routes that later stage into the existing Texas holdover tool rather than combining the two notices.
Primary-residence mailing can matter
If the tenant gave the written primary-residence notice described by §92.012 at lease signing or renewal, lease-termination notices generally must also be mailed to the designated primary-residence address unless the statute's hand-delivery exception applies.