Alabama Eviction Notice

Seven business days. If rent is unpaid when due, the landlord may deliver a written notice to terminate the lease that specifies the amount of rent and any late fees owed and states that the agreement will terminate on a date not less than seven business days after the tenant receives it; paying the full stated amount within that window stops the termination (Ala. Code § 35-9A-421(b)). Weekends do not count as business days.

Seven business days to remedy. For material noncompliance with the rental agreement, the landlord delivers a written notice to terminate specifying the acts and omissions constituting the breach; the termination date must be at least seven business days after receipt, and the tenancy continues if the tenant adequately remedies the breach in time (Ala. Code § 35-9A-421(a)). No breach may be cured more than twice in 12 months without the landlord's written consent (§ 35-9A-421(d)).

Four categories carry a seven-day notice with no right to remedy: illegal drugs in the unit or common areas; illegal use, possession or discharging of a firearm or ammunition on the premises (self-defense and defense of others excepted); criminal assault of a tenant or guest on the premises (same exceptions); and a repeat of substantially the same breach within six months of one previously noticed and cured (Ala. Code § 35-9A-421(d)(1)-(4)).

Thirty days' written notice, given at least 30 days before the periodic rental date specified in the notice (Ala. Code § 35-9A-441(b)); a week-to-week tenancy ends on seven days' written notice (§ 35-9A-441(a)). No cause is required. After termination, a holdover tenant may be sued for possession, and a willful holdover can cost up to three months' rent in damages plus attorney fees (§ 35-9A-441(c)).

The Act does not prescribe a method for the termination notice itself: its general delivery rule — in hand to the tenant, or three days after mailing to the tenant's last known residence — is expressly excluded for notices that terminate a tenancy or evict a tenant (Ala. Code § 35-9A-144(c), (e)). Deliver the notice in a way you can prove, and keep dated proof of delivery for the court file.

The landlord files an unlawful detainer action in the district or circuit court of the county where the property sits; eviction actions take scheduling precedence over other civil cases (Ala. Code § 35-9A-461(b)). The notice alone changes nothing by force: only a court judgment leads to removal, and execution on a possession judgment waits at least seven days when no post-judgment motion or appeal is filed (§ 35-9A-461, as amended by Act 2009-633). Self-help lockouts are not lawful.

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