Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania

It depends. Read the lease agreement. What kind of lease do they have? Month-to-month? A year? What does the lease say if anything about a notice to quit and/or termination of the lease?

What is your relationship like with the tenant? I have set forth the statute below which governs the notice to quit. If the lease will be at an end, I would advise the tenant as soon as possible that the lease will not be renewed. If the tenant is on a year or less lease, its 15 days. Again, I would be a little more generous and give at least 30 days if you have a good relationship with the tenant and the tenant is decent, but that is entirely up to you.

68 P.S. � 250.501

Article V. Recovery of Possession

� 250.501. Notice to quit

(a) A landlord desirous of repossessing real property from a tenant except real property which is a mobile home space as defined in the act of November 24, 1976 (P.L. 1176, No. 261), [FN1] known as the "Mobile Home Park Rights Act," may notify, in writing, the tenant to remove from the same at the expiration of the time specified in the notice under the following circumstances, namely, (1) Upon the termination of a term of the tenant, (2) or upon forfeiture of the lease for breach of its conditions, (3) or upon the failure of the tenant, upon demand, to satisfy any rent reserved and due.

(b) Except as provided for in subsection (c), in case of the expiration of a term or of a forfeiture for breach of the conditions of the lease where the lease is for any term of one year or less or for an indeterminate time, the notice shall specify that the tenant shall remove within fifteen days from the date of service thereof, and when the lease is for more than one year, then within thirty days from the date of service thereof. In case of failure of the tenant, upon demand, to satisfy any rent reserved and due, the notice shall specify that the tenant shall remove within ten days from the date of the service thereof.

(c) In case of the expiration of a term or of a forfeiture for breach of the conditions of the lease involving a tenant of a mobile home park as defined in the "Mobile Home Park Rights Act," where the lease is for any term of less than one year or for an indeterminate time, the notice shall specify that the tenant shall remove within thirty days from the date of service thereof, and when the lease is for one year or more, then within three months from the date of service thereof. In case of failure of the tenant, upon demand, to satisfy any rent reserved and due, the notice, if given on or after April first and before September first, shall specify that the tenant shall remove within fifteen days from the date of the service thereof, and if given on or after September first and before April first, then within thirty days from the date of the service thereof.

(c.1) The owner of a mobile home park shall not be entitled to recovery of the mobile home space upon the termination of a lease with a resident regardless of the term of the lease if the resident:

(1) is complying with the rules of the mobile home park; and

(2) is paying the rent due; and

(3) desires to continue living in the mobile home park.

(c.2) The only basis for the recovery of a mobile home space by an owner of a mobile home park shall be:

(1) When a resident is legally evicted as provided under section 3 of the "Mobile Home Park Rights Act."

(2) When the owner and resident mutually agree in writing to the termination of a lease.

(3) At the expiration of a lease, if the resident determines that he no longer desires to reside in the park and so notifies the owner in writing.

(d) In case of termination due to the provisions of section 505-A, [FN2] the notice shall specify that the tenant shall remove within ten days from the date of service thereof.

(e) The notice above provided for may be for a lesser time or may be waived by the tenant if the lease so provides.

(f) The notice provided for in this section may be served personally on the tenant, or by leaving the same at the principal building upon the premises, or by posting the same conspicuously on the leased premises.