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Oregon Rent Late Fee & Late Rent Notice

A dated, professional past-due rent notice for a Oregon rental — friendly reminder, formal notice, or final notice, with an itemized balance and delivery record. Free, built in your browser.

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Grace period
A late fee may not be charged until at least four days after the rent due date.
Late fee
The fee must follow one of the statutory structures — a single reasonable flat fee, a capped daily fee, or a capped 5-day-period fee — and must be described in the rental agreement.
Notice before eviction
For nonpayment, a landlord may issue a 72-hour notice after rent is 7 days late, or a 144-hour notice after 4 days.
Statute
ORS 90.260; ORS 90.394

Last checked July 2026. Laws change — verify before you rely on this.

The order these three things happen in

Rent is late, a fee may become chargeable, and only later does a notice to vacate become an option. Running them together is the mistake that gets a case thrown out, and Oregon sets each one separately.

  1. Rent is due. The lease sets the day; nothing here overrides it.
  2. Before a late fee. A late fee may not be charged until at least four days after the rent due date.
  3. What the fee may be. The fee must follow one of the statutory structures — a single reasonable flat fee, a capped daily fee, or a capped 5-day-period fee — and must be described in the rental agreement.
  4. Before an eviction filing. For nonpayment, a landlord may issue a 72-hour notice after rent is 7 days late, or a 144-hour notice after 4 days.

A late rent notice is none of those things — it is a demand for payment, and it carries no statutory timeline of its own. It is what you send to get paid without starting anything formal, which is why it is usually the cheapest thing that works.

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Is this an eviction notice?

No, and the difference matters in Oregon. An eviction filing has to be preceded by the notice above — for nonpayment, a landlord may issue a 72-hour notice after rent is 7 days late, or a 144-hour notice after 4 days. A late rent notice has no prescribed wording or waiting period because it is not a legal step; it is a bill with a date on it. The generator’s final notice says so on its face, so nobody receiving it can mistake it for a court document.

When is rent considered late in Oregon?

The day after the date in the lease. That date is the lease’s to set and Oregon law does not override it. What state law governs is the next question — how long a landlord has to wait before charging anything for it.

How late can you pay rent in Oregon before a late fee?

A late fee may not be charged until at least four days after the rent due date.

Worth being precise about what that period is: it is the point at which a fee may be charged. It is not a window in which rent is not owed. The balance is due from the lease date either way, and paying inside the period avoids the fee, not the obligation — which is also why a notice sent during it is a reminder rather than a demand for a fee that isn’t chargeable yet.

ORS 90.260; ORS 90.394, last checked July 2026.

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Oregon rules last checked July 2026 against ORS 90.260; ORS 90.394. Informational, not legal advice — confirm with a local attorney or your housing authority before acting.

Everything else we’ve researched about Oregon

Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.