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What late fees can a landlord charge in Arizona?

Verified July 9, 2026 All Arizona topics →

Arizona sets no dollar or percentage cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period — rent is 'payable without demand or notice at the time and place agreed on by the parties' (ARS 33-1314(C)), so a lease-based late fee can begin accruing the day after rent is due.

The two statutory constraints come from ARS 33-1368(B): the fee must be set forth in a WRITTEN rental agreement, and it must be reasonable — an oral lease supports no late fee at all. The five-day notice that appears in the same statute is the cure window for a nonpayment eviction, not a late-fee grace period, and the $5-per-day cap many websites cite is the mobile-home-park rule (ARS 33-1414), which has never applied to houses or apartments.

Arizona late fees at a glance

Statutory cap No statutory cap (see reasonableness standard and notes)
Mandatory grace period None mandated statewide
Must be in the lease Yes
Daily fees No statute addresses fee structure for standard rentals; daily fees are a lease matter bounded by the reasonableness requirement. The $5-per-day cap with a five-day grace window that circulates in Arizona summaries is the MOBILE HOME PARK statute (ARS 33-1414) and does not apply to standard rentals.
Reasonableness standard ARS 33-1368(B) conditions reinstatement of the rental agreement on the tenant tendering past-due rent and 'a reasonable late fee set forth in a written rental agreement' — read as requiring both a writing and reasonableness for a late fee to be collectible at all. No statutory formula, percentage, or dollar cap exists; reasonableness is policed through liquidated-damages principles.

Notes and caveats

statutory_cap and grace_period_days are both null — Arizona regulates form (written agreement) and reasonableness, not amount or timing. Two traps disclaimed in the record because they are pervasive: the 33-1368(B) five-day pay-or-quit cure period being recast as a grace period, and the 33-1414 mobile-home $5/day cap being imported into standard rentals (same class as the WA HB 1217 and FL §83.808 traps). Both mobile-home statutes were read directly on azleg.gov this session to confirm their scope.

Statute citations

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.