Texas Lease Renewal Notice Template: Renewal Offer, Rent Change and Non-Renewal (Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001)

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Lease Renewal Notice (Texas)

Landlord’s Notice of Renewal or Non-Renewal under the Texas Property Code

Date of notice: [Date]

To: [Full name of each tenant]
Premises: [Street address, unit], [City], Texas [ZIP]
Current lease: dated [date], ☐ ends on [date] ☐ month to month

1. Renewal Decision (check one)

☐ Offer to renew. We offer to renew your lease for ☐ a new term of [number] months, from [date] to [date] ☐ a month-to-month tenancy beginning [date], on the same terms as your current lease except for the changes listed in Section 2. This offer stays open until [date].

☐ Notice of non-renewal. Your lease ends on [date] and will not be renewed. Please vacate and return all keys by [time] on [date]. [For a month-to-month tenancy: this notice is given at least one month before that date, or the period our signed lease requires (Property Code § 91.001).]

2. Changes to the Terms (if renewing)

TermCurrentProposed
Monthly rent$[Amount]$[Amount]
Late fee (initial and daily)[Amount][Amount, within § 92.019 limits]
Security deposit$[Amount]$[Amount]
Utilities and services paid by tenant[List][List]
Notice required to end the renewed lease[Days][Days]
Other changes[Describe][Describe]

The new rent of $[amount] takes effect on [date], ☐ at the start of the renewed term ☐ at least one month after this notice, for a month-to-month tenancy.

3. Your Response

Please return this section by [date].

☐ I/We accept the renewal on the terms above and will sign the renewal agreement.
☐ I/We would like to discuss the terms. Best way to reach me/us: [phone or e-mail].
☐ I/We will not renew and will move out on or before [date], giving the notice my/our lease requires.

Tenant: ____________________ Date: __________ Tenant: ____________________ Date: __________

4. Landlord or Agent

Name: [Name] · Address: [Address] · Phone: [Phone] · E-mail: [E-mail]

Signed: ___________________________ (landlord or authorized agent) Date: __________

5. Certificate of Delivery

I delivered this notice on [Date] by (check one):

☐ handing a copy to [name]
☐ mailing a copy to the tenant at [address] by ☐ first-class ☐ certified mail
☐ e-mailing or delivering it by another method the lease allows: [describe]

Delivered by: ___________________________ (name and signature)

Before You Send (Delete This Section)

  • Read the lease’s renewal and notice clauses first; a period agreed in a signed lease replaces the one-month default of § 91.001.

  • Check the six-month window. If the tenant made a repair request, complained to a code authority or exercised another protected right in the past six months, document a non-retaliatory reason for any rent increase or non-renewal (§§ 92.331, 92.332).

  • Keep late fees within § 92.019 and state them in the written renewal.

  • A non-renewal is not a notice to vacate. If the tenant stays after the lease ends, a separate notice under § 24.005 comes before any eviction case.

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Lease Renewal Notice (Texas) · month-to-month notice, rent increases, retaliation, late fees, holdover

Eight questions to settle before a Texas landlord offers, or declines, a renewal. Texas leaves most renewal terms to the lease: there is no rent cap and no required renewal offer. The rules that do apply are about timing, retaliation and late fees, and a non-renewal still needs a proper notice to vacate if the tenant stays.

01 Notice

How much notice ends or changes a Texas month-to-month tenancy?

Either party may end a month-to-month tenancy by notice, and it ends on the later of the day stated in the notice or one month after the notice is given; for a rent period shorter than a month, the notice must cover one full rent period (Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001).

These defaults do not apply if the landlord and tenant agreed on a different notice period, or that no notice is required, in an instrument both signed. A rent change for a month-to-month tenant is given at least as far ahead, because a tenant who rejects it can be given notice to end the tenancy.

02 Leases

Does a fixed-term Texas lease require a renewal offer?

No. A fixed-term lease ends on its end date unless it renews itself; whether notice of renewal or non-renewal is required, and how far ahead, depends on the lease's own clauses.

Many Texas leases convert to month to month or require written notice of non-renewal a set number of days before the end. Put the new rent and any other changes in the renewal itself: rent cannot change during the term unless the lease allows it.

03 Rent

Is there rent control or a cap on increases in Texas?

No statewide cap exists. A municipality may adopt rent control by ordinance only if it finds a housing emergency caused by a disaster and the governor approves the ordinance, and the controls continue or end with the state of disaster (Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 214.902).

Outside that situation, the renewal rent is whatever the parties agree to, subject to the retaliation and fair housing rules below.

04 Retaliation

Can a Texas landlord raise the rent or refuse to renew after a repair request?

Not in retaliation. For six months after a tenant in good faith exercises a right under the lease or law, gives a notice to repair, complains to a code enforcement agency or utility about a violation, or joins a tenant organization, the landlord may not retaliate by increasing the rent, terminating the lease, filing an eviction, decreasing services or interfering with the lease in bad faith (Tex. Prop. Code § 92.331).

Keep a record of the reasons for any increase or non-renewal made within that window. The next question lists the situations the Code says are not retaliation.

05 Exceptions

When is a rent increase or non-renewal not retaliation?

The landlord is not liable if it proves the action was not retaliatory, or for increasing rent under a written escalation clause for utilities, taxes or insurance, or as part of a pattern of increases or service reductions across an entire multi-unit property (§ 92.332(a)).

Ending a lease is also not retaliation when, among other grounds, the tenant is behind on rent when the notice is given, has materially breached the lease, or holds over after the landlord gave notice of termination at the end of the term and took no protected action until after that notice (§ 92.332(b)).

06 Late fees

What late fee can the renewed lease charge?

A late fee must be stated in the written lease, may be charged only after rent has remained unpaid two full days after the due date, and must be reasonable: no more than 12% of the monthly rent in a building with four or fewer units, or 10% in a larger building, unless the landlord can justify a higher amount as uncertain damages (Tex. Prop. Code § 92.019).

An initial fee plus a daily fee count together as one late fee. A landlord who violates the section owes the tenant $100, three times the fee collected and attorney's fees, so check the late-fee line of the renewal table.

07 Holdover

What if the tenant neither renews nor moves out?

A non-renewal letter is not an eviction notice. Before filing an eviction case, the landlord must give a written notice to vacate delivered in one of the ways the Property Code lists, generally at least three days before filing unless the lease sets a different period (Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005).

Accepting rent after the lease ends can create a new month-to-month tenancy, so decide in advance whether any stay is allowed and say so in the letter. Our Texas notice to vacate template covers the 2026 rules.

08 Delivery

How should a Texas renewal notice be delivered?

As the lease's notice clause requires. The Property Code sets delivery methods for a notice to vacate, but a renewal offer or non-renewal letter follows the lease, which often allows hand delivery, mail or e-mail.

Whatever the method, keep proof: the certificate of delivery in the template records the date, method and person served, and a copy of any e-mail. Deliver to every adult tenant named on the lease.

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