Ohio 30-Day Notice to Vacate

What this notice is for

This notice terminates a month-to-month tenancy in Ohio without needing a lease violation or nonpayment — either party can end a periodic tenancy this way. It is separate from the 3-day notice to leave premises (ORC § 1923.04), which is used after a violation or nonpayment, not for an ordinary end-of-tenancy termination.

The rule most templates get wrong: it's not "30 days from today"

Ohio Revised Code § 5321.17(B) requires the notice to give the tenant at least 30 days, and the termination date must land on the tenant's next periodic rental date — typically the recurring monthly rent due date — not simply 30 calendar days after the notice is served. A generic 50-state template that just adds 30 days to today's date will frequently compute the wrong termination date, because it isn't anchored to the tenant's actual rent-due cycle.

For example: if a tenant's rent is due on the 1st of each month, and a landlord serves this notice on the 10th, a flat "+30 days" calculation lands on the 9th of the following month — not a valid periodic rental date under Ohio law. The correct deadline has to walk forward to the next rent-due date that is still at least 30 days out, which in this example would be the 1st of the month after that.

No 60-day tier in Ohio

Some states (California, New York, Florida) scale the notice period up for longer-term tenants — Ohio does not. ORC § 5321.17 has no 60-day tier at all; 30 days, anchored to the periodic rental date, is the rule regardless of how long the tenant has lived there. A template offering a "60-Day Notice to Vacate" option for Ohio is offering something Ohio law doesn't actually provide.