Written 14-day notice to quit for nonpayment
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 186, § 11State law
To determine a written lease for nonpayment of rent, the landlord must give the tenant written notice to quit at least 14 days before termination.
Answers the question “When can they end my tenancy?”
The source
… 11 Search the Legislature Search the Legislature Search General Laws Go Directly to a General Law Chapter Section Go to General Law Skip to Content Print Page Prev ious Next Section 11: Determination of lease for nonpayment of rent Section 11. Upon the neglect or refusal to pay the rent due under a written lease, fourteen days' notice to quit, given in writing by the landlord to the tenant, shall be sufficient to determine the lease, unless the tenant, on or before the day the answer is due, in an action by the landlord to recover possession of the premises, pays or tenders to the landlord or to his attorney all rent then due, with interest and costs of suit. If the neglect or refusal to pay the rent due was caused by a failure or delay of the…
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- Dates
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- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Conditions not extracted yet.
- Key value
- 14 days
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
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Extracted by the model
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- Category
- Eviction protection
- Requirement
- To determine a written lease for nonpayment of rent, the landlord must give the tenant written notice to quit at least 14 days before termination.
- Key value
- 14 days
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is MA.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: no building condition the data can test; conditions in words stay with the text.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 110 sample addresses in Massachusetts on Oct 1, 2026.
- 110 applies
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 6 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 471 Columbia Rd, Dorchester: Applies. Statewide Massachusetts rule in force (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 186, § 11); no building condition in it excludes this address.
- 134 Oxford St, Cambridge: Applies. Statewide Massachusetts rule in force (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 186, § 11); no building condition in it excludes this address.