Arizona Landlord Entry Notice Rules Under A.R.S. 33-1343

The Arizona statute counts in days, not hours. Unless there is an emergency or notice is impracticable, the landlord must give the tenant “at least two days' notice of the landlord’s intent to enter and enter only at reasonable times” (A.R.S. 33-1343(D)). Abusing access has remedies for both sides under A.R.S. 33-1376.

What 33-1343 says

• (A) Tenant's duty. “The tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent” to entry to inspect, make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen or contractors.
• (B) Tenant's maintenance request. A tenant's written request under A.R.S. 33-1341, paragraph 8, is permission to enter “for the sole purpose of acting on the service or maintenance request”, and the tenant waives any separate access notice for that purpose.
• (C) Emergency. “The landlord may enter the dwelling unit without consent of the tenant in case of emergency.”
• (D) Notice and abuse. The two-day rule above, and the landlord “shall not abuse the right to access or use it to harass the tenant”.
• (E) No other right. “The landlord has no other right of access except by court order and as permitted by sections 33-1369 and 33-1370, or if the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the premises.” (33-1369 covers repairs a tenant fails to make after written notice; 33-1370 covers abandonment.)

Where the text is silent

• It gives no hours. “Two days” is not defined as 48 hours, and 33-1343 has no counting rule (the calendar-day rule in A.R.S. 33-1368(G) is written for that section).
• It does not define “reasonable times”, “emergency” or “impracticable”.
• It does not say the notice must be written or how it is delivered. A.R.S. 33-1313(B) says a person gives notice by “taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other in ordinary course”.
• It does not say whether the tenant must be home. It makes no exception to the notice rule for a tenant who is away.
• It does not say whether a lease may shorten the notice. Ask an Arizona attorney before relying on such a clause.

Scenarios

Worked example

You hand the tenant a notice on Monday 5 October 2026 at 10:00. The text says two days; it does not say how to count them. We plan on two full days, so the earliest entry is Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 10:00, inside weekday daytime hours (our practice; the statute sets no clock hours). A notice taped to the door on Friday 16 October at 17:00 (the text does not mention posting) runs two full days to Sunday 18 October at 17:00; we would schedule Monday 19 October.

Our template

Our template; the statute sets no form and lists no required contents.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO ENTER
Date of notice: [date]    Delivered by: [hand / door / other]
To: [tenant name(s)]    Unit: [address]
From: [landlord name], [phone]

Under A.R.S. 33-1343 I intend to enter the unit on
[date] between [start time] and [end time].
Purpose: [repair of ___ / inspection / showing / other: ___]

If this time does not work, call me at [phone] and we will
agree another time. If I enter while you are away I will
leave a dated note.

Signed: ____________  Date: [date]

If access is abused: 33-1376

• Tenant refuses lawful access (A). The landlord “may obtain injunctive relief to compel access, or terminate the rental agreement”, and may recover actual damages. The section states no notice period for that termination; ask an Arizona attorney.
• Landlord's unlawful entry (B). That includes a lawful entry in an unreasonable manner, or “repeated demands for entry otherwise lawful but which have the effect of unreasonably harassing the tenant”. The tenant may obtain injunctive relief or terminate the rental agreement, and recover “actual damages not less than an amount equal to one month's rent”. At $1,500 rent the floor is $1,500.

Common mistakes

• Writing 24 or 48 hours on a notice. The text says two days.
• Using a repair request as permission to inspect or show the unit; (B) is limited to that request.
• Entering unannounced because you own the unit. Subsection (E) leaves no other right.
• Calling a routine problem an emergency. The text does not define the word; record the facts.
• Booking repeated visits that unreasonably harass the tenant, the pattern 33-1376(B) describes.
• Keeping no copy of the notice or entry date.

Checked against the text published on azleg.gov on 5 October 2026.

Sources

• A.R.S. 33-1343 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes
• A.R.S. 33-1376 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes
• A.R.S. 33-1341 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes
• A.R.S. 33-1369 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes
• A.R.S. 33-1370 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes
• A.R.S. 33-1368 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes
• A.R.S. 33-1313 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes

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• Arizona Abandoned Tenant Property: Landlord Rules, A.R.S. 33-1370
• Arizona Landlord Retaliation Rules Under A.R.S. 33-1381

Informational only, not legal advice. Statute text checked against the Arizona Revised Statutes (Title 33, Chapter 10 and Title 12, Chapter 8, Article 4) as published at azleg.gov on October 5, 2026. Statutes change every legislative session and a court may read them differently than a summary does; for a dispute, an eviction or anything expensive to get wrong, talk to an Arizona landlord-tenant attorney.