Kansas rent notice

Kansas nonpayment notice: Sedgwick County guide

This form combines a demand for overdue rent and a conditional notice to leave under K.S.A. 58-2564(b) and 61-3803. The payment opportunity is an essential part of this notice. It is not an unconditional eviction order.

1. Confirm the property and tenancy fit this form

Use this branch only for an ordinary, lawful, whole-unit residential house, townhouse, apartment or condominium in unincorporated Sedgwick County, outside Wichita and every other city. A Wichita postal address or a ZIP code beginning with 67 does not establish that the property is outside city limits. Check the actual parcel and boundary before selecting the supported area.

The scope is a new, undisputed rent-only default, after the lease's grace period, with no other charges owed, earlier notice, pending case, payment arrangement, accepted partial payment or unapplied credit. Housing assistance, government-backed financing, bankruptcy, military service and other special protections need separate review. Do not use this branch for mobile-home lots, transient lodging, owner-shared housing, accessory units, tribal land or an uncertain or unlawful occupancy. These are limits of this form, not a statement that Kansas law excludes every such tenancy.

2. Establish the debt and the tenant's payment opportunity

Under K.S.A. 58-2545, rent is payable at the agreed time and place; the statute supplies rules when the agreement is silent. Check the signed lease, amendments, grace period, due dates and complete payment history. Enter each unpaid installment with its actual due date. Reconcile receipts, returned payments and credits first. Do not treat a disputed balance or a future installment as presently overdue.

K.S.A. 58-2543(j) defines rent broadly as payments under the rental agreement other than a security deposit. This tool deliberately handles the narrower situation of overdue periodic rent with no other charges owed. It does not decide whether a fee is lawful or collectible. Do not place late fees, utilities, deposits, damages, attorney fees or other sums in the rent rows. If those amounts are involved, obtain a separate review rather than relabeling them. Prohibited lease provisions under K.S.A. 58-2547 do not become enforceable by including them in a demand.

The notice identifies the unpaid rent and states the landlord's intention to terminate if it is not paid within the statutory period. Full payment within that period prevents termination for this nonpayment. The attached statement explains the total. Payment instructions should identify the payee, authorized location or method and usable contact information consistently with the lease; they should not create a new obstacle to timely payment.

3. Count consecutive hours from actual delivery

K.S.A. 58-2564(b) measures the three-day cure period as three consecutive 24-hour periods. For this personal-delivery branch, the starting event is actual delivery, not the date the notice was drafted, signed or downloaded. For example, delivery Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. reaches 72 hours Friday at 2:30 p.m., assuming no additional applicable requirement. Preserve the actual time and allow the full period.

K.S.A. 61-3803 separately requires the notice to leave before an eviction lawsuit and permits combining it with the residential notice. It uses the same consecutive-hour approach and includes intervening Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays and days the clerk's office is inaccessible. Do not substitute a three-business-day calculation. An additional lease requirement or a different applicable protection must be reviewed before using this branch. The form does not calculate a court-filing date or decide the effect of later events.

4. Deliver the complete notice and preserve the facts

This branch requires a printed notice and its rent statement to be personally given to each named tenant. Check that all names, premises, amounts and payment details are correct before delivery. After delivery, the person who performed it can complete the separate record with the recipient, actual date and time, place, documents delivered and identifying facts. A signature applied while preparing the notice does not certify that delivery occurred. Retain an exact copy and the completed record; use a separate record for each delivery where necessary.

The statutes also address leaving a copy with a resident over age 12, conspicuous posting and mailing. Under K.S.A. 61-3803, posting follows the condition that no qualifying person is found on the premises. Mailing adds two days under the statutory provisions. Those alternatives require their own review; they are not enabled by this personal-delivery form. Do not use its 72-hour wording unchanged for mailed service. Emailing or texting a copy through a sharing menu is not the personal delivery selected here.

5. Sign in the permitted manner and use the blank version correctly

Kansas's electronic-transactions provisions, K.S.A. 16-1603, 16-1605 and 16-1607, recognize electronic records and signatures in covered transactions and require the parties' agreement to transact electronically. This form offers an electronic signature only when the landlord and every named tenant agreed to electronic signatures for this notice. Otherwise, prepare the notice, print it and sign by hand. The landlord signs in the landlord's own capacity; this branch does not support an agent signing for someone else.

K.S.A. 16-1608 preserves applicable requirements for a specified delivery method. Agreement to sign electronically therefore does not turn this form into an email-service option. Keep evidence of the agreement, review the complete notice and re-confirm the signature after changing its contents.

For handwriting, download the blank notice and rent statement, enter all required names, address, rent dates, amounts and payment instructions, verify the total and sign. Apply the same eligibility and legal checks as the online form; a blank download does not perform them. Keep the personal-delivery record blank until the actual event, then complete it from the server's own knowledge. The record is separate from the notice and is not a court summons or a prefilled assertion of service.

6. Review payments and disputes before going further

K.S.A. 58-2566 addresses waiver when a landlord accepts late rent without reservation or accepts non-rent performance that varies from the agreement, unless otherwise agreed after the breach. A later payment, settlement, promise or acceptance can change the legal position. Do not simply subtract a payment and proceed on the old notice. Preserve the amount, date, allocation and communications and have the effect reviewed before taking further action.

Repairs, habitability, code complaints, discrimination, accommodation requests and retaliation can raise distinct rights and defenses. K.S.A. 58-2572 contains retaliation rules and exceptions, including an exception relating to default in rent; it is not a blanket rule that either all nonpayment cases are barred or every complaint can be ignored. This form does not resolve those disputes. A notice cannot waive statutory rights or substitute for an assessment of the underlying facts.

7. Account for county housing rules and the court process

Sedgwick County Code chapter 6, article IX is the county's rental housing code. Sections 6-427 and 6-428 address minimum housing standards and the scope for non-owner-occupied residential premises in the unincorporated area. The code's condition, maintenance and enforcement provisions matter separately from the state rent-notice period. A properly timed notice does not cure a housing-code problem. This guide does not extend the branch into Wichita or another city's rules.

After lawful termination, K.S.A. 58-2568 permits an action for possession, rent or both, subject to applicable law and defenses. Expiration of the notice alone does not authorize a lockout, interruption of services or removal of people or belongings. Review actual service, elapsed time, payments, lease requirements and protections before filing. Court pleadings, summons service, hearings, judgment and enforcement are separate steps. The 18th Judicial District Court's eviction resources provide local process information; its local civil Rule 201 addresses assignment of Chapter 61 landlord-tenant cases. Neither preparing this form nor completing its delivery record files a case.

8. Sources and review scope

Primary sources: Kansas residential landlord and tenant statutes, particularly 58-2543, 58-2545, 58-2547, 58-2564, 58-2566, 58-2568 and 58-2572; 61-3803; Kansas Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; and the Sedgwick County rental housing code.

Content reviewed October 27, 2026. The nonpayment, notice-to-leave and electronic-delivery provisions were rechecked on the legislature's site that day; the remaining statutory, county-code and local-court materials were reviewed from official sources retained October 24, 2026. The county code publication reviewed was Supplement 22, Update 2, with later county resolutions separately considered within the stated scope. This is a customized form, not a court-issued or court-endorsed form. Recheck applicable law and obtain individual advice when the facts fall outside these limits.