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

Verified July 9, 2026 All Arizona topics →

Arizona landlords must give at least two days' notice before entering a rental for inspections, repairs, services, or showings, and may enter only at reasonable times — with no notice needed in an emergency, where giving it is impracticable, or where the tenant's own maintenance request supplies the permission.

The notice does not have to be in writing under the statute, though written notice is the sensible practice. Tenants may not unreasonably refuse lawful entry, and the remedies run both ways: a landlord who enters unlawfully, enters lawfully but unreasonably, or uses repeated entry demands to harass faces injunctive relief or lease termination plus actual damages of no less than one month's rent (ARS 33-1376(B)).

Arizona entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	2 days
Notice standard	ARS 33-1343(D): except in case of emergency or if it is impracticable to do so, the landlord must give at least two days' notice of intent to enter and may enter only at reasonable times. The statute does not require the notice to be written, and 'reasonable times' is undefined.
Permitted reasons	The tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent for the landlord to inspect the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations, or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen, or contractors (ARS 33-1343(A)). A tenant's own maintenance or service request constitutes permission to enter for that purpose — no separate notice needed.
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	Entry must be at reasonable times; the statute fixes no clock hours.

Notes and caveats

notice_hours is encoded as 48 because the statute says 'two days'' notice' — render on-page as '2 days' to match statutory language, per the WA/OH convention. Points a careful page should carry: (1) the notice need not be written (unusual — most 2-day states require writing; many secondary sources silently add a writing requirement); (2) the 'impracticable' carve-out in (D) is broader than emergency-only and is usually omitted; (3) the one-month's-rent minimum recovery under 33-1376(B) is a floor on actual damages, a real deterrent. Subsection lettering caution: the emergency and service-request-consent clauses sit in the (B)-(C) range and sources render their order inconsistently, so the citation pinpoint spans (A)-(D) rather than asserting letters for those two clauses.

Statute citations

ARS 33-1343 (A)-(D) Official source
ARS 33-1376 (B) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Arizona Legislature site (azleg.gov): ARS 33-1321 and 33-1343 each read in full twice (independent fetches matched verbatim), ARS 33-1368, 33-1375, 33-1329, 33-1376, and 33-1314 read in full, plus trap-check reads of the mobile-home statutes ARS 33-1414 (late fees) and 33-1432 (90-day rent-increase notice) to confirm those figures do NOT apply to standard rentals. Pending-bill statuses (HB 2337 of 2025, HB 4122 and HB 2243 of 2026) checked against azleg.gov bill text and legislative trackers 2026-07-09; all died without committee action.