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

Verified July 7, 2026 All Texas topics →

Texas has no statute requiring landlords to give advance notice before entering a rental unit — entry rights come entirely from the lease.

Most Texas leases (including the widely used TAA form) grant entry for repairs and showings with some notice, and a landlord entering without any lease authority risks trespass liability. The one heavily regulated entry-adjacent area is lockouts, which § 92.0081 tightly restricts.

Texas entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	No Texas statute requires advance notice before landlord entry; entry rights are governed by the lease.
Permitted reasons	Not enumerated by statute; whatever the lease provides, bounded by the tenant's possessory rights (entry without lease authority can constitute trespass) and specific statutes on lockouts (§ 92.0081) and smoke-alarm inspection duties.
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_hours null: no entry-notice statute exists. Cite frame: state law library guide confirms the absence; § 92.0081 covers the adjacent lockout rules. Page copy must distinguish 'no statutory notice' from 'unrestricted entry.'

Statute citations

Texas State Law Library, Landlord-Tenant Law guide Official source
Tex. Prop. Code § 92.0081 Official source

How this record was verified: Web verification against the Texas State Law Library landlord-tenant guides (guides.sll.texas.gov, official state source summarizing Prop. Code ch. 92) and full statute text of Prop. Code §§ 92.019, 92.103, 92.104, 92.107, 92.109 via legal databases; statutes.capitol.texas.gov URLs cited for the official text.