About this site

Will I Get Evicted? is an independent guide to state eviction rules. You can check the timelines, read the sources and see which details we still need to verify.

We check laws and court rules

We check information against state laws, court rules and timelines published by courts. Each guide lists its sources and the date we last checked them.

We mark what we have not verified

"Not verified" means we have not checked that detail against a law or court source. "None in state statutes" or "Not in state statutes" means we checked, and no state statute or court rule sets that protection. Courts or cities may still have rules of their own. A provisional protection rating means at least one detail used to calculate it still needs checking.

Check the date

Eviction laws change. Each guide shows when we last checked it. Use that date and the linked sources to judge how current the information is.

We label figures from other researchers

Some fastest-timeline figures come from the Eviction Research Network. We name the source and mark those figures as not independently verified until we have checked them against the law.

How the tenant protection rating works

The rating compares how much each state's law protects a renter who is behind on rent. It adds up points from nine protections, out of 9:

Notice before the landlord can file: 2 points for 14 days or more, 1 point for 5 to 13 days
Paying can stop the eviction before judgment: 1 point, or half a point if only some tenants can
Paying can stop the eviction after judgment: 1 point, or half a point if only in some cases. A right the landlord can refuse counts as no
At least 5 days' wait before removal after judgment: 1 point
A late-fee cap, or a grace period of 5 days or more: 1 point
Eviction records can be sealed: 1 point
A right to a free lawyer: 1 point statewide, half a point in one city
Lockouts without a court order are banned: 1 point

7 or more is Strong, 5 to 6.5 is Moderate, 3 to 4.5 is Weak, and under 3 is Minimal. The rating describes the law, not your landlord or your chances in court.

When a guide says "7 of 9 checked", two of the nine have not yet been verified against the law. Each unverified protection counts as zero, so the rating can go up as we check them, but not down. A protection that no state statute provides counts as checked and scores zero.

What this site cannot tell you

This site is not legal advice and does not create a lawyer-client relationship. A statute summary cannot account for your lease, local rules, service problems, court scheduling or the facts of your case.

If you have received an eviction notice or a court summons, contact the legal aid organization listed on your state page.

Reusing our data

The figures on this site are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). You can copy, share and build on them, including commercially, if you credit willigetevicted.com and link to the page you used.

This covers our data: notice periods, court and removal timelines, and the other facts in our tables. It does not cover the written explanations on this site, which remain all rights reserved, or text quoted from statutes and court rules, which belongs to its sources. Figures we attribute to the Eviction Research Network are theirs, not ours, and are not covered either.

Found something wrong?

Tell us. Legislatures change these rules and we would rather hear about an error than leave it up. Email [email protected] with the state and, if you have it, the statute or court rule that says otherwise.