Texas landlord-tenant law is spread across different statutes and procedures. This page routes the most common problems to the LandlordAnswers resources already built for Texas and identifies the legal framework for other common questions.
General legal information only. It does not determine rights or recommend a course of action for a particular rental or dispute. Texas statutory sources reviewed August 27, 2026.
Texas nonpayment rules, Notice to Vacate requirements, deadlines, delivery, late fees, and what happens next.
Texas lease-violation paths, cure questions, Notice to Vacate rules, delivery, deadlines, and next steps.
Holdover questions involving fixed-term expiration, month-to-month termination, and the Texas Notice to Vacate process.
Texas lease expiration, nonrenewal, month-to-month termination, renewal language, and notice timing.
Texas legal information about surrender, suspected abandonment, locks, disposal, deceased tenants, writs, and landlord liens.
The question may fall into another part of Texas landlord-tenant law. The sections below identify several common categories and the statute or contract source that usually matters. They are starting points for legal information, not individualized conclusions.
Texas Property Code Chapter 92 contains the residential security-deposit rules, including deductions, accounting, return timing, bad-faith remedies, and rules affected by a tenant's forwarding address.
Primary framework: Chapter 92, Subchapter C
Texas Property Code §§92.051-.061 address repair duties and tenant remedies. The statutory analysis can depend on notice, rent status, the condition involved, and whether the condition materially affects ordinary health or safety.
Primary framework: Chapter 92, Subchapter B
Texas Property Code §92.0081 regulates residential lockouts and exclusions. Other access questions can depend heavily on the lease because Texas does not use one simple statewide landlord-entry rule for every ordinary inspection or access situation.
Primary framework: §92.0081 and the lease
Texas Property Code §92.008 restricts a landlord from interrupting utilities in specified circumstances. Utility billing and master-meter situations can also involve additional statutory rules.
Primary framework: §92.008 and related provisions
Texas Property Code §§92.331-.335 address landlord retaliation after specified protected tenant activity. The statute identifies protected conduct, prohibited retaliatory actions, exceptions, and remedies.
Primary framework: Chapter 92, Subchapter H
Texas Property Code Chapter 54 contains residential landlord-lien rules. A lien or sale used to collect rent is a different legal issue from ordinary abandoned property.
Primary framework: Property Code Chapter 54
Texas Property Code Chapter 92, Subchapter C contains the ordinary residential security-deposit framework. It addresses topics such as deductions, itemized accounting, return obligations, a tenant's forwarding address, and remedies connected to bad-faith retention.
A deposit dispute can turn on the lease, the condition of the rental, unpaid amounts, documentation of deductions, the date possession ended, and the address information available to the landlord.
Texas Property Code §92.052 states the general residential repair-or-remedy duty when statutory conditions are met. Sections that follow address notice, landlord liability, tenant remedies, and judicial remedies.
The statute is not simply a universal repair deadline for every maintenance request. The legal analysis can depend on the type of condition, notice given, rent status, cause of the condition, and other statutory requirements.
Texas does not use one general statewide statute that gives an identical notice period for every routine landlord entry. Lease language therefore matters for many ordinary access questions.
Lockouts and intentional exclusion are different. Texas Property Code §92.0081 specifically regulates residential lockouts and contains detailed restrictions, exceptions, key requirements, and remedies.
Texas Property Code §92.008 restricts a residential landlord from interrupting or causing the interruption of utility service in circumstances covered by the statute. The rule is separate from ordinary billing disputes and includes specific exceptions and procedures.
Questions involving allocated utility billing, submetering, master-metered service, reimbursement, or service supplied through a third party can involve additional statutes, regulations, lease terms, or utility-provider rules. The existence of a utility balance by itself does not answer whether interruption of service is permitted.
Texas Property Code §92.331 identifies specified tenant conduct that can trigger the retaliation framework, including certain good-faith exercises of legal rights, repair notices, government complaints, and participation in a tenant organization.
The subchapter also defines prohibited retaliatory actions, exceptions, and remedies. The existence of a legitimate independent ground for landlord action can therefore matter to the analysis.
Texas Property Code Chapter 54 provides a statutory framework for certain landlord liens on tenant property. Residential landlord-lien questions can involve whether the lease contains the required lien language, whether particular property is exempt, what property may be seized, notice requirements, and any sale procedure used to satisfy unpaid rent.
This is a different legal framework from ordinary abandoned property. A tenant leaving belongings behind does not automatically make those belongings subject to sale for unpaid rent, and an abandonment analysis does not replace the separate Chapter 54 requirements.
Some Texas rental disputes fall outside the ordinary residential framework summarized on this page. Subsidized or program housing, manufactured-home communities, bankruptcy, military-service issues, ownership disputes, court orders, active litigation, foreclosure-related occupancy, and other specialized situations can add separate federal, state, local, program, or court rules.
No. The applicable rule can change based on the lease, the reason for the dispute, the type of housing, the tenant's conduct, prior notices, and whether a court case or writ already exists.
Many of the core residential rules are in Texas Property Code Chapter 92. Eviction procedure is primarily in Chapter 24, periodic-tenancy termination is addressed in Chapter 91, and landlord liens are addressed in Chapter 54.
Often yes. Some statutes set mandatory rules while others allow a lease to affect timing, procedures, or contractual rights. A page explaining a statute cannot determine how a particular lease provision applies to a specific dispute.
Those situations can involve additional rules beyond the ordinary Texas residential framework. They should be analyzed under the specialized program, statute, or court process involved.
This page provides general legal information and routing. It does not determine whether a landlord or tenant has complied with a statute, whether a lease provision is enforceable, or what action should be taken in a specific dispute.