How many hours' notice must a landlord give before entering in Kansas?

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Kansas requires only reasonable notice, with no fixed period and no writing requirement, and entry must happen at reasonable hours. The landlord may not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant.

What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Kansas?

A landlord may enter to inspect the premises, to make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, to supply necessary or agreed services, or to show the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen or contractors.

Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Kansas?

Yes — Kansas recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.

Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Kansas?

Kansas fixes none. Entry must be at 'reasonable hours,' which the act does not define, and no clock windows exist for any entry type.

How much notice must a landlord give before entering in Kansas?

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Kansas requires only 'reasonable notice' before a landlord enters a rental — no statute fixes a number of hours, and entry must happen at reasonable hours of the day (K.S.A. 58-2557).

Cited to K.S.A. 58-2557 (a)-(c) and 2 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 2026

Notice does not have to be in writing, and permitted purposes are broad: inspections, necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, supplying services, and showing the unit to prospective buyers, lenders, tenants, or contractors. The no-consent exception is narrow: a landlord may enter without the tenant's consent only for 'an extreme hazard involving the potential loss of life or severe property damage' — not for garden-variety urgency. Two additional access rights exist: during a tenant absence longer than 30 days the landlord may enter at times reasonably necessary, and once a tenant is 10 days behind on rent and has removed a substantial portion of the tenant's belongings the landlord may presume abandonment, unless the tenant has notified the landlord to the contrary. Remedies run both ways under K.S.A. 58-2571: a tenant who refuses lawful access faces an injunction or lease termination plus actual damages, and a landlord who enters unlawfully, unreasonably, or with harassing repeated demands faces the mirror-image remedies — with no fixed minimum recovery. A mobile home park landlord who rents only the space may not enter a home the tenant owns without the tenant's consent unless there is an extreme hazard involving the potential loss of life or severe property damage, and may enter the space itself at reasonable hours to inspect it, make repairs, supply services or show it (K.S.A. 58-25,115).

Kansas entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	Kansas requires only reasonable notice, with no fixed period and no writing requirement, and entry must happen at reasonable hours. The landlord may not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant. K.S.A. 58-2557(a): the landlord may enter 'at reasonable hours, after reasonable notice to the tenant.' No fixed notice period, no writing requirement, and no defined clock hours anywhere in the act. The landlord shall not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant (58-2557(c)).
Permitted reasons	A landlord may enter to inspect the premises, to make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, to supply necessary or agreed services, or to show the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen or contractors. Those purposes are set out at K.S.A. 58-2557(a). Separately, during any tenant absence exceeding 30 days the landlord may enter at times reasonably necessary (K.S.A. 58-2565(b)).
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	Kansas fixes none. Entry must be at 'reasonable hours,' which the act does not define, and no clock windows exist for any entry type.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Kansas Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified October 1, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/kansas/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

No 24-hour rule — many guides invent one — No hours figure is recorded because Kansas has only a reasonable-notice standard: 'at reasonable hours, after reasonable notice' (58-2557(a)). The '24-hour' figure many landlord guides give for Kansas appears nowhere in the act.
The emergency exception is unusually narrow — 58-2557(b) allows entry without the tenant's consent only in case of an 'extreme hazard involving the potential loss of life or severe property damage' — so convenience or minor-urgency entries do not qualify.
No showing window, no notice form, no clock hours — Kansas has no showing-window, no notice-form requirement, and no time-of-day clock for entry.
Two commonly missed access rights — During a tenant absence over 30 days the landlord may enter 'at times reasonably necessary' (58-2565(b)), and abandonment may be presumed once the tenant is 10 days in rent default and has removed a substantial portion of the tenant's belongings, unless the tenant has notified the landlord to the contrary.
Remedies are actual damages only — Under 58-2571 the remedies for unlawful, unreasonable, or harassing entry are injunction or termination plus ACTUAL damages — do not import other states' one-month-rent minimums. The 1.5 months' rent remedy in 58-2563 applies to unlawful removal/exclusion or willful utility shutoff, not to simple unlawful entry.
No 2025-26 legislation touched entry — Nothing in the biennium changed the entry rules; it adjourned sine die on April 10, 2026.

Common questions: Kansas entry notice

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How many hours' notice must a landlord give before entering in Kansas?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Kansas requires only reasonable notice, with no fixed period and no writing requirement, and entry must happen at reasonable hours. The landlord may not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Kansas?: A landlord may enter to inspect the premises, to make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, to supply necessary or agreed services, or to show the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen or contractors.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Kansas?: Yes — Kansas recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Kansas?: Kansas fixes none. Entry must be at 'reasonable hours,' which the act does not define, and no clock windows exist for any entry type.

Citations

K.S.A. 58-2557 · (a)-(c) (verified 2026) Official source
K.S.A. 58-2565 · (b) (verified 2026) Official source
K.S.A. 58-2571 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes site (ksrevisor.gov), each section carrying a figure on this page read twice independently, with all figures reconciled verbatim: 58-2550 (1-month/1.5-month/half-month pet caps, 14-day and 30-day return clocks, 1.5x penalty), 58-2548 (5-day joint inventory), 58-2557 (reasonable notice/reasonable hours entry), 58-2570 (7-day/30-day/15-day termination notices), 58-2565(b) (30-day absence entry, 10-day abandonment presumption), 58-2564(b) (3-day nonpayment cure), 58-2563 (1.5 months' rent ouster remedy), and 12-16,120 (express local rent-control preemption). Negative checks run against the full Residential Landlord and Tenant Act: all 34 sections (58-2540 through 58-2573) downloaded and searched — no late-fee, grace-period, deposit-interest, escrow/separate-account, or rent-increase-notice provision exists. Pending-bill check 2026-07-11 on kslegislature.gov: 2025-26 biennium adjourned sine die 2026-04-10; HB 2666 (late-fee restrictions), SB 482 (condemned-unit deposit return), and HB 2768 (split rent payments) all died in committee; enacted Sub HB 2357 (eviction expungement) and SB 391 (voucher-mandate preemption) do not affect these four topics. Sight-confirmed 2026-07-12 on each bill's official history page (kslegislature.org/li/b2025_26/measures/): all three show 'Died in Committee' 2026-04-10 as the final entry. On October 1, 2026 every section the security deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction answers rest on was read again on the Kansas Legislature's site (kslegislature.gov), which serves the Revisor of Statutes' text with each section's history line and carries the 2025 session: the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (K.S.A. 58-2540 to 58-2573), the Mobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (58-25,100 to 58-25,126), K.S.A. 12-16,120, chapter 61, articles 28 to 39, and K.S.A. 60-206. The 2026 session laws (chapters 56, 132 and 152, in force July 1, 2026 and not yet numbered into the statutes) were read on the Secretary of State's site. Statute links on these pages now point to the Legislature's site.