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Last reviewed September 2026

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Maryland Crime-Free Housing Addendum

This Crime-Free Housing Addendum is built with Maryland as the governing state. These are the Maryland landlord-tenant rules that most often bear on it, with the statute for each.

Maryland rules at a glance

Maryland rules for a Crime-Free Housing Addendum
Nonpayment notice10-day written notice of intent to file, on the Judiciary’s formReal Prop. §8-401(c)
NonpaymentBefore filing a failure-to-pay-rent case, the landlord must give a 10-day written notice of intent to file on the Maryland Judiciary’s form, by first-class mail with a certificate of mailing, posting on the door, or opted-in electronic delivery (§8-401(c)).
Month-to-month terminationLandlord 60 days’ written notice · tenant 30 daysReal Prop. §8-402(c)

Ending a Maryland tenancy

Maryland’s notice rule applies at the end of a fixed-term lease too, not only to periodic tenancies: a landlord who wants possession when the term expires must give the written notice below. A lease can lengthen these periods but never shorten them (§8-208(d)(5)).

Landlord’s written notice to end a Maryland tenancy (Real Prop. §8-402(c))
Fixed-term lease over 1 week, or month-to-month60 days
Year-to-year90 days
Week-to-week (written lease)7 days
Week-to-week (no written lease)21 days
  • Tenant’s notice — A tenant who plans to leave gives at least 30 days’ notice (90 days for year-to-year). Outside Baltimore City, a tenant’s oral notice proven by competent testimony excuses the landlord’s written notice; that oral-notice rule doesn’t apply in Baltimore City, so put notices in writing there (§8-402(c)(3)).
  • Nonpayment — Before filing a failure-to-pay-rent case, the landlord must give a 10-day written notice of intent to file on the Maryland Judiciary’s form, by first-class mail with a certificate of mailing, posting on the door, or opted-in electronic delivery (§8-401(c)).
  • Right of redemption — In most cases a tenant can stop a nonpayment eviction by paying all past-due amounts set by the court plus court-awarded costs and fees before the eviction is carried out — unless three nonpayment judgments of possession were entered against the tenant in the 12 months before the case was filed (§8-401(h)).
  • Domestic violence — A tenant who is a victim of abuse may end the lease with written notice and a protective or peace order or a qualified third party’s report, and owes rent only until moving out, up to 30 days (§§8-5A-02, 8-5A-03).
  • Automatic renewal — An auto-renewal clause longer than one month must be set apart in the lease and separately initialed or signed by the tenant, or it can’t be enforced (§8-208(e)).

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