Georgia landlord entry laws
How much notice your landlord owes you before coming in, when they may enter without it, and what Georgia law lets you do about it.
Notice required
No statute
O.C.G.A. Title 44, Chapter 7 has six articles — general provisions, security deposits, dispossessory proceedings, distress warrants, croppers, and abandoned mobile homes. All 26 sections of Article 1 were read by heading. There is no access or entry provision.
Why we won't write you a demand letter for Georgia
Georgia does not regulate landlord entry by statute.
What to do right now
Your lease is your only source of a notice right in Georgia. Read it, object in writing, and keep a dated copy.
We don't write an entry letter for Georgia. The reason is above, and it is not a limitation of ours — it is what the law here does and does not give you. If your landlord is also withholding a deposit, charging a late fee the law doesn't allow, or refusing repairs, those are areas where we can send a certified demand on your behalf.
Other Georgia tenant rights
Landlords who get one of these wrong often get another wrong too.
About this source: Georgia licenses the Official Code of Georgia Annotated to a commercial publisher and does not publish it online free, so there is no legislature-hosted page to send you to. This link is a mirror, not the State's own text. Our reading is described above and was done against the full chapter — we would rather tell you the link is second-hand than let you assume it isn't.
How this page was checked
- Read from the source. Every deadline, cap and penalty here was taken from Georgia's landlord-tenant law — the statute, session law or administrative code itself.
- No legal-information websites. Commercial summaries were used only to find a provision, never as authority for it. An automated check fails our build if any state we serve cites a secondary source.
- Locked against drift. The verified figures are pinned by regression tests, so a later edit cannot quietly change a deadline or a penalty.
- Last verified August 21, 2026. Laws change — confirm the current text before relying on it.
General information, not legal advice. We are not a law firm.
Compare all 51 jurisdictions — notice periods range from 12 hours to 72, and thirteen states have no rule at all.