Louisiana landlord entry laws
How much notice your landlord owes you before coming in, when they may enter without it, and what Louisiana law lets you do about it.
Notice required
No notice requirement
Louisiana has no landlord-tenant act; lease is governed by the Civil Code. Article 2693 gives the lessor the right to make a repair that cannot be postponed 'even if this causes the lessee to suffer inconvenience or loss of use of the thing' — conditioned on no notice at all. Article 2682 makes protecting the lessee's peaceful possession one of the lessor's three principal obligations.
La. Civ. Code arts. 2682, 2693
Why we won't write you a demand letter for Louisiana
No article requires notice before entry, and the only article that speaks to entry grants the lessor a right rather than imposing a duty. Article 2682(3) is real but general — arguing that repeated entries breach the obligation to protect peaceful possession is an argument, not a citation.
What to do right now
If a repair has substantially disrupted your use of the property, art. 2693 expressly lets you seek a reduction or abatement of rent, or dissolution of the lease, depending on the circumstances and the length of the disruption. And protecting your peaceful possession is one of your lessor's principal obligations under art. 2682.
We don't write an entry letter for Louisiana. 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 Louisiana tenant rights
Landlords who get one of these wrong often get another wrong too.
How this page was checked
- Read from the source. Every deadline, cap and penalty here was taken from Louisiana's published text — the statute, session law or administrative code itself.
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Compare all 51 jurisdictions — notice periods range from 12 hours to 72, and thirteen states have no rule at all.