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Maryland month-to-month lease agreement
Written for Maryland law, checked October 1, 2026 General information, not legal advice
A month-to-month tenancy renews each month until the landlord or the tenant gives notice. Choose month-to-month as the lease type, or set a fixed-term lease to convert to month-to-month when its term ends.
Maryland rules that apply
- Ending month-to-month
- 60 days
- landlord's written notice; 90 days for year to year
- Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-402(c)(2), (c)(3)
- Rent increase notice
- 90 days (60 month-to-month)
- 90 days for terms over one month, 60 for over a week up to a month
- Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-209(b)(3)
Ending a month-to-month tenancy
To end a month-to-month tenancy, or a written lease for a stated term longer than one week, you must give the tenant written notice at least 60 days before it expires. A tenancy from year to year needs 90 days, and a week-to-week tenancy needs 7 days with a written lease or 21 days without one.
Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-402(c)(2)
More detail (4)
- A lease may not require the tenant to give longer notice to end the tenancy than you must give. Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-501
- If the tenant tells you, even orally, at least 30 days before the end (90 days for year to year) that they will move out, and you can prove it, you need not send your own written notice to recover possession. This does not apply in Baltimore City. Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-402(c)(3)
- If a tenant stays on with your consent after the term ends, the tenancy becomes month to month (week to week if it was weekly) unless the lease says otherwise in a term the tenant initialed. Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-402(d)
- Accepting rent after giving notice does not waive the notice unless you agree otherwise in writing. Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-402(c)(5)
The Rentari Maryland lease says you give 60 days' written notice before the end of a stated term or a month-to-month tenancy, 90 days for year to year, and that the tenant may end a month-to-month tenancy with 30 days' notice.
Rent increase notice
You must tell the tenant in writing before raising the rent: at least 90 days ahead for a tenancy with a term of more than one month, 60 days for a term of more than one week up to one month (such as month-to-month), and for a term of one week or less, 7 days with a written lease or 21 days without one.
Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-209(b)
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- Send the notice by first-class mail with a certificate of mailing, or by email, text or tenant portal if the tenant chose electronic delivery and you get proof of transmission. You may not make electronic delivery a condition of accepting an application, and a lease may not require it. Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-209(b)(2) Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-208(d)(9)
- The rule does not apply once you have given written notice to end the tenancy under the termination section. Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-209(a)(2)
- Local laws that require more notice or give tenants more protection still apply. Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-209(c) See Rent control and local rules on the Maryland page