Description
This form is a 3 Day Notice to Pay Rent or Quit for a California residential rental unit. Landlords serve this form to a tenant if the tenant fails to pay rent on or before the due date specified in the lease. When you purchase this form, you will be given access to a PDF and Microsoft Word version of the form.

Form Excerpt

To: Tenant(s):___________________________________________ The Premises which are held and/or occupied by you are: Address:___________________________________________________ Apartment or Suite Number:________ City: __________________________ State:______ Zip:____________ Other notice address if different Premises above: _____________________________________________________________ This notice is to the above-named Tenant(s) and any other occupants of the above-referenced Premises. WITHIN THREE DAYS from service of this Notice, you are required to: Pay rent for the Premises in the following amount, which is past due, to: Name of Person Rent Should Be Delivered To: ________________________________                                                         Make Check Payable To:________________________________ Phone Number: __________________  Address:___________________________________________________ City: ________________________ State:______ Zip:_________ Between the hours of _______________ on the following days____________________ Acceptable method(s) of...

Instructions
An overview of the eviction process can be found here: http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/ California Department of Consumer Affairs

California Code of Civil Procedure 1174 Code of Civil Procedure 1174 can be found here: California Law Government Website

California Code of Civil Procedure 1162 Code of Civil Procedure 1162 can be found here: California Law Government Website

1162. The notices required by Sections 1161 and 1161a may be served, either: 1. By delivering a copy to the tenant personally; or, 2. If he or she is absent from his or her place of residence, and from his or her usual place of business, by leaving a copy with some person of suitable age and discretion at either place, and sending a copy through the mail addressed to the tenant at his or her place of residence; or, 3. If such place of residence and business can not be ascertained, or a person of suitable age or discretion there can not be found, then by affixing a copy in a conspicuous place on the property, and also delivering a copy to a person there residing, if such person can be found; and also sending a copy through the mail addressed to the tenant at the place where the property is situated. Service upon a subtenant may be made in the same manner. The proper service of notices can can be found here: California Department of Consumer Affairs

Requiring Cash for Past Due Rent According to this website: California Department of Consumer Affairs "The landlord normally cannot require that the tenant pay the past-due rent in cash."

This book supports the above idea: California Real Estate Property Management "During the three-day notice period, the tenant may tender payment of the rent and cure the default in the same manner the tenant made past rental payments"