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Oregon Notice to Vacate Letter
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[Date]
[Your landlord's name]
Re: Notice to vacate — [Rental property address]
Dear [Your landlord's name],
Please accept this letter as my formal written notice that I will terminate my tenancy at [Rental property address] and vacate the premises on [Move-out date].
Under Oregon Residential Landlord and Tenant Act — Termination of Tenancy Without Tenant Cause (ORS 90.427), a month-to-month tenancy may be terminated by the tenant on 30 days written notice. This notice is given in accordance with that requirement and with any additional notice period my lease provides.
I will leave the unit clean and in good condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and will return all keys and access devices on or before my move-out date. I would like a move-out inspection during my final week; please propose a date and time.
Please send my security deposit, with any itemized statement required by law, to my forwarding address: [Your forwarding address]. Kindly confirm receipt of this notice in writing.
Sincerely,
[Your full name]
Know your rights
Notice to vacate law in Oregon
- Tenant notice required
- 30 days
- Governing statute
- ORS 90.427
- How the clock runs
- A month-to-month tenant may terminate by written notice given not less than 30 days before the date designated in the notice (ORS 90.427(3)(a)). The end date can be any day the tenant chooses — Oregon does not require it to land on a rent-period boundary.
- Delivering the notice
- Under ORS 90.155 notice may be personally delivered or sent by first-class mail, but mailing adds three days to the minimum period (mail at least 33 days ahead). Email counts only if a written addendum signed after move-in allows it, and even then an emailed termination notice must also be sent by first-class mail at the same time.
- Fixed-term leases
- A fixed-term tenancy rolls over into month-to-month at expiration unless the tenant gives written notice not less than 30 days before the lease's specified ending date (or the landlord lawfully ends it), so a tenant leaving at lease end should still deliver a 30-day notice.
Worth knowing: Week-to-week tenants need only 10 days' written notice. Oregon's just-cause and rent-cap regime (SB 608 and later amendments) tightly restricts landlord terminations after the first year but leaves the tenant's own no-cause 30-day right untouched. Portland layers on landlord relocation-payment duties, which likewise impose nothing extra on a departing tenant. The notice must designate a specific termination date to be effective.
Last reviewed August 2026 · General information, not legal advice · Read the statute · Also for Oregon: security deposit demand letter
Field notes
Three tips before you send
- Under ORS 90.155 notice may be personally delivered or sent by first-class mail, but mailing adds three days to the minimum period (mail at least 33 days ahead). Email counts only if a written addendum signed after move-in allows it, and even then an emailed termination notice must also be sent by first-class mail at the same time.
- A month-to-month tenant may terminate by written notice given not less than 30 days before the date designated in the notice (ORS 90.427(3)(a)). The end date can be any day the tenant chooses — Oregon does not require it to land on a rent-period boundary.
- Date math is unforgiving — the clock usually runs from the day your landlord receives the notice, not the day you write it. Build in a few days of cushion, and photograph the empty unit when you hand back the keys.
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Straight answers
Questions people ask
How much notice does a tenant have to give in Oregon?
A month-to-month tenant may terminate by written notice given not less than 30 days before the date designated in the notice (ORS 90.427(3)(a)). The end date can be any day the tenant chooses — Oregon does not require it to land on a rent-period boundary. The governing statute is Oregon Residential Landlord and Tenant Act — Termination of Tenancy Without Tenant Cause.
What happens when a fixed-term lease ends in Oregon?
A fixed-term tenancy rolls over into month-to-month at expiration unless the tenant gives written notice not less than 30 days before the lease's specified ending date (or the landlord lawfully ends it), so a tenant leaving at lease end should still deliver a 30-day notice. Check your lease for a renewal or notice clause — where the statute allows it, the lease controls.
Anything else Oregon renters should know before moving out?
Week-to-week tenants need only 10 days' written notice. Oregon's just-cause and rent-cap regime (SB 608 and later amendments) tightly restricts landlord terminations after the first year but leaves the tenant's own no-cause 30-day right untouched. Portland layers on landlord relocation-payment duties, which likewise impose nothing extra on a departing tenant. The notice must designate a specific termination date to be effective.
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When to use this letter
Moving out should be the easy part — but in Oregon, when you give notice and how you deliver it decide whether you owe another month of rent. The rule that matters: for a month-to-month tenancy, Oregon law generally requires 30 days written notice from the tenant, under Oregon Residential Landlord and Tenant Act — Termination of Tenancy Without Tenant Cause. This generator writes a tenant's notice to vacate that cites ORS 90.427 by name, states your move-out date, and asks for the move-out inspection and your deposit instructions in the same letter — so nothing gets renegotiated later. No blank template to fight with: fill in your landlord, the address, and the date, then send it in a way you can prove, because notice clocks here run from delivery, not from the day you write it.