Notice to Quit in Pennsylvania

[Hilary Graves]

Hello,

My wife and I are about to serve our first Notice to Quit. We are in Pennsylvania. If I'm reading PA Law correctly, for one year and under we must only provide 15 days notice and for any lease longer than 1 year, 30 days is required. We inherited this tenant and want to remove her so we can renovate the building one unit at a time, and this tenant is a smoker! Her lease started 4/1/2020 and ends 3/31/2021 so by my calculations, we would only be required to give 15 days notice, right? We are concerned that if we give notice, she will not pay for the month of April and if we give 30 days to vacate, we are out a month instead of 15 days.  Any advice is appreciated.  Thank you.

Bill