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Hi I'm San Diego fiction attorney Steve Whitaker and I'm here to give you a little information today about how to properly serve a three day notice to pay or quit on a tenant there's only three ways you can serve a three day notice to pay or quit and if you don't do it in one of those three ways you likely you'll lose your eviction case now the first way you do it is it's called personal service and personal service is simply when you go to the residence you knock on the door and they answer the door and you hand them the notice to quit notice to pay or quit very simple the next way is basically a substitute service that as you go to serve the tenant with the three-day notice to fair quit knock at the door someone answers the door but it's not the tenant as long as it's an adult over the age of 18 that's there you can hand the notice to that adult and then also and this is very important you must also do this also mail the notice to the tenant and then the third way is by what's commonly called post and mail posting mail you go you knock on the door nobody answers when nobody answers you can tape the notice to the door and then also mail it to the tenant and those are the three ways that you can serve a three-day notice to pay or quit and again you want to do them in that order you want to try personal service substitute service and then post a mail you don't want to just go to the door and post it mail it that's not sufficient you have to try to personally serve if you're not able to serve you have to try substitute service if you're not able to substitute serve then you can post a mail thanks I hope you found this video informational if you have any questions you can always call us at our office and we have additional helpful information at our website best San Diego eviction com thanks for watching check out our other videos have a great day you