Residential Lease

THE TENANT PROTECTION ACT. After a tenant has occupied a residential unit for 12 months, a landlord may terminate only for JUST CAUSE, stated in the notice, with a cure opportunity for curable breaches and RELOCATION…

An owner ending a California residential periodic tenancy must give at least 60 DAYS' written notice, and 30 days where occupancy is under one year or on a qualifying sale to a natural-person buyer who will reside…

CALIFORNIA'S SECURITY DEPOSIT RULES, and they changed recently: since July 2024 the cap is generally ONE MONTH'S RENT whether or not the unit is furnished, with a narrow small-landlord exception.

The landlord must put and keep a residential dwelling in a condition fit for occupation, with section 1941.1 listing the characteristics that make it untenantable. These cannot be drafted away;

The tenant's repair-and-deduct remedy, limited to one month's rent and available a limited number of times per year after reasonable notice. Advise a landlord on the condition of the property before advising on rent.

The notices that precede a California unlawful detainer, including the THREE-DAY notice to pay rent or quit, which must state the amount due and the name and address for payment. A defective notice defeats the case;

California's statewide RENT CAP limits annual increases to 5 per cent plus the local CPI change, to a maximum of 10 per cent, for covered units, with the same exemption structure as section 1946.2.

The judgment in a California unlawful detainer, including forfeiture of the lease, damages, and the court's power to RELIEVE A TENANT FROM FORFEITURE where hardship justifies it.

How a residential eviction is actually executed, including removal and the handling of unclaimed possessions. The step landlords most often get wrong after winning.

A lease or rental agreement provision by which a tenant WAIVES THE BENEFITS OF SECTIONS 47a-36 TO 47a-40, INCLUSIVE, or that limits a tenant's rights under those sections, is VOID against public policy.

Escrow requirements for advance rental payments and security deposits for residential units. A landlord who commingles the deposit is exposed; say in the lease where the deposit is held.

THE NOTICE TO QUIT is the first step in a Connecticut eviction and the section prescribes its grounds, FORM and delivery, including the statutory period before a summary process complaint may be served.

Illegal use of the premises voids the lease as the section provides. A distinct ground from non-payment.

CONNECTICUT REGULATES SECURITY DEPOSITS CLOSELY. The section caps the deposit, requires it to be held in escrow at a financial institution, requires ANNUAL INTEREST at the rate it prescribes, and sets deadlines for…

GOOD CAUSE PROTECTION for tenants in buildings or complexes of five or more units, or in a mobile manufactured home park, who are SIXTY-TWO OR OLDER or who have a physical or mental disability, including where a…

Execution is stayed for five days from judgment, with appeal rights. Tell a landlord the judgment is not the end of the calendar.

The landlord must give the tenant the official SUMMARY of the Code, and failure to do so has consequences the section states. This is a delivery obligation at the start of the tenancy;

A condition depriving the tenant of a substantial part of the bargain: WRITTEN NOTICE PLUS 15 DAYS FOR THE LANDLORD TO REMEDY, then the tenant may terminate.

How a rental agreement's term runs and how it is terminated, including the notice periods. A defective notice defeats a Delaware eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

A rental agreement extends automatically where neither party gives the required notice, generally on a month-to-month basis. Tell a landlord that silence renews the tenancy.

The remedies available to each side for breach of the agreement or the Code. The menu when drafting a demand or a defence.

The landlord's core obligations under the rental agreement. The baseline a Delaware residential lease is written against.

The tenant's right to terminate at the beginning of the term in the circumstances the section describes. Relevant where a unit is not as promised.

The habitability and maintenance obligations a Delaware landlord owes. These cannot be drafted away; a lease that purports to shift them is writing an unenforceable clause.

Limits how much notice a housing provider may require from a tenant vacating after the lease term ends. A landlord-side lease that demands 60 days may exceed what this section allows.

A tenant victim, or a minor victim's parent or guardian, of an intrafamily offense under § 16-1001(8) IS RELEASED FROM THE LEASE on giving the housing provider written notice plus either a § 16-1005 order or…

Gives the District agency entry and inspection powers and sets the owner's corrective-action and notice duties for lead hazards. A landlord-side lease should reserve the access needed to comply.

Prescribes how a notice to quit is served, including personal delivery, delivery to a person of suitable age at the premises, and posting with mailing.

Covered transactions require a bona fide tenant opportunity to purchase; current section .02 also addresses appraisal and certification procedures and when tenant rights vest.

Gives the TOPA timetable for buildings of two to four units: the period for the tenant to state interest, to negotiate a contract, and to obtain financing, each measured from the offer of sale.

Lists the transfers that fall outside TOPA, including certain transfers by operation of law, to a government, in foreclosure, or among the owners themselves.

Termination grounds, cure periods and notice forms differ for nonpayment, curable violations and qualifying noncurable violations. Email notice requires 83.505 compliance and statutory notice may not be waived.

Section 3 makes the fraudulent-entry amendment to section 83.56 effective October 1, 2026. The 2026 consolidated page already includes it; do not apply the new ground to a pre-effective-date matter.

Security deposits and advance rent: check permitted custody, interest, disclosures and exceptions.

The notice periods for ending a tenancy with no fixed term, by rental period. Get the period right; it is the most common Florida eviction defect.

Fixed-term agreements may require reciprocal end-term notice of 30 to 60 days. Landlord notices use the manner prescribed in 83.56(4).

The landlord's remedies when a tenant breaches or leaves early, including the liquidated damages or early termination fee option the section permits IF the lease contains the required provision in the statutory form.

Chapter 2020-99 repealed section 83.561 effective July 1, 2020, but made new section 83.5615 effective only upon repeal of the federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act. The current U.S.

Electronic statutory notices require the voluntary signed addendum with each valid email address and the prescribed elections, revocation and update terms. Delivery is when sent unless returned undeliverable;

For a residential rental agreement with a term of one year or longer, the landlord must give a separate flood disclosure at or before execution, substantially in the statutory form.

Maryland's prohibited-provisions section. A landlord may not use a lease containing a confessed-judgment clause, a waiver of any right or remedy provided by law, a late-payment penalty in excess of 5% of the unpaid rent…

Maryland DSD chapter export, read from the publisher-designated repository default branch; publication 2026-04-25 was current there when checked 2026-09-14.

DHCD requires its current Tenants Bill of Rights attached to every lease without editing the published version. The publisher describes annual updates by October 1 and links its printable versions and translations.

A covenant by the tenant to leave, restore, surrender or yield the leased premises in good repair does not obligate the tenant to make substantial repairs, replace obsolete materials or fix defects without the tenant's…

Requires the landlord of residential rental property to include specified provisions in a written lease, including the statement of the tenant's rights and the landlord's obligations, and provides for a penalty where…

Limits and conditions an award of attorney's fees in a Maryland landlord-tenant action. A one-sided fee-shifting clause in a Maryland lease should be checked against it.

The receipt for a security deposit must notify the tenant of the right to be present at a move-in and move-out inspection, the right to receive by first-class mail a written list of damages and the cost actually…

Distinguishes the notice solicitation from a tenant offer, includes proof-of-mailing fields, and uses receipt for the tenant offer deadline. Read section 8-119(d) for the conditional trigger and matching sales price;

DHCD English Tenants Bill of Rights, effective October 1, 2025, linked by its publisher when checked September 13, 2026. The publication identity and lease-attachment introduction were inspected;

Sanitary-code publication. Selected section 410.400 was read for nonresident-owner contact postings, telephone monitoring and provision or posting of the Department rights notice.

940 CMR 3 publication. Selected section 3.17 was read for rental-agreement contact details, deposit language, the executed-copy requirement within 30 days of obtaining the tenant signature, and related landlord…

A residential lease provision purporting to relieve the landlord from liability for negligence is VOID. Do not draft one.

A lease provision waiving the tenant's right to statutory notices is void. Massachusetts residential leases cannot contract around the notice regime.

Recovering possession after a tenancy at will has been terminated. The step after the section 12 notice.

Lease provisions restricting a tenant's right to litigate or limiting landlord liability are void as the section provides. Another clause family to keep out of a Massachusetts lease.

How a lease is terminated for non-payment of rent, including the tenant's statutory right to cure by paying within the period the section allows. The cure right is what a landlord most often overlooks.

The notice required to terminate a tenancy at will: generally the rental period or thirty days, whichever is longer. A defective notice defeats the eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

Interfering with a tenant's quiet enjoyment, or shutting off utilities, carries CRIMINAL penalties and civil damages of at least three months' rent plus costs and attorney's fees.

THE STRICTEST SECURITY DEPOSIT STATUTE IN THIS COLLECTION, and the one that generates Massachusetts landlord liability.

For tenants within section 2A:42-6.3, rent due on the first has five business days of statutory grace; weekends and State or federal holidays do not count, and a delinquency or late charge cannot cover that period.

Section 2A:42-6.3 limits the act to premises rented by senior citizens receiving Social Security Old Age, Railroad Retirement or governmental pensions in lieu of Social Security Old Age pensions, and recipients of…

Definitions for the 2025 lead drinking-water act, including a seasonal rental unit leased for fewer than six months each year. Read the cross-referenced water-system and service-line definitions when material;

DOH develops the health-risk notice and publishes a notice in the New Jersey Register. The law's development deadline does not prove the actual publication date. Read with section 12.3c's publication condition.

Historical February 2008 reprint of N.J.S.A. 46:8-43 through 50. This is not the separate Truth in Renting guide and does not include subsequent statutory amendments.

Before any judgment of possession under the Anti-Eviction Act, except nonpayment of rent under subsection a.

Within 30 days after the tenancy or license ends the landlord must return the deposit plus the tenant's portion of interest or earnings, less charges permitted by the lease, by personal delivery or registered or…

A domestic-violence termination under 46:8-9.6 takes effect on the thirtieth day after the landlord receives a complying notice unless the parties agree on an earlier date, with rent paid pro rata to termination;

The Attorney General's plain-language statement of tenant rights under New York law, covering leases, security deposits, the warranty of habitability, rent regulation, evictions and retaliation.

Before raising the rent by more than 5% or refusing to renew a residential lease, the landlord must give written notice of 30, 60 or 90 days depending on how long the tenant has occupied the unit or the length of the…

Requires a residential lease to carry a conspicuous flood disclosure stating whether the premises are wholly or partly in a FEMA special flood hazard area or moderate risk area and whether the unit has sustained flood…

Requires a written rent receipt for any payment not made by personal check, an annual statement of payments on request, and written notice by certified mail when rent has not been received within five days of the due…

Voids a lease provision limiting occupancy to the named tenant where the tenant wishes to live with immediate family or one additional occupant and that occupant's dependent children.

The Department of State's mandatory agency disclosure for rentals under Real Property Law § 443, setting out landlord's agent, tenant's agent, broker's agent and dual agency, with the signature acknowledgment.

HCR's statement of the one-month cap on security deposits, the itemized statement and 14-day return deadline, the tenant's right to a walk-through, and which fees an owner may and may not charge, including the change…

A security deposit remains the tenant's money, is held in trust by the landlord and may not be mingled with the landlord's own funds;

No deposit or advance may exceed one month's rent; the landlord must offer a move-in inspection and give a written itemised statement of any move-out condition, and must return the deposit with an itemised statement of…

Lists the grounds for a summary proceeding and requires a written 14-day demand for rent before a nonpayment proceeding. A New York lease's default clause cannot substitute a shorter demand.

SELF-HELP IS PROHIBITED. An Ohio landlord may not exclude the tenant by changing locks, may not seize the tenant's property for rent, and may not shut off utilities, with damages available to the tenant.

What a rental agreement may include, subject to the chapter. Read with section 5321.13 before drafting anything unusual.

THE THREE-DAY NOTICE TO LEAVE THE PREMISES is the prerequisite to an Ohio eviction and must be served at least three days before the action, by certified mail or by the other means the section allows, AND must contain…

The Ohio landlord's mandatory obligations: comply with building, housing, health and safety codes materially affecting health and safety, keep the premises fit and habitable, maintain common areas, supply running water…

The tenant's statutory obligations. The counterpart to section 5321.04 and the basis for a landlord's breach claim.

Where a tenant has deposited rent with the court over a condition complaint, the landlord applies under this section for its release. The landlord's answer to a rent-deposit case.

VOID CLAUSES in an Ohio residential rental agreement, including agreements to pay the landlord's attorney's fees, to confess judgment, or to limit liability for the landlord's own negligence.

OHIO'S SECURITY DEPOSIT RULE HAS AN INTEREST TRAP. Any deposit exceeding fifty dollars or one month's rent, whichever is greater, bears FIVE PER CENT INTEREST ANNUALLY on the excess if the tenant stays six months or…

Who may be removed by Ohio's forcible entry and detainer action, which is the eviction proceeding. Confirm the tenancy falls within it before drafting.

A cooperative interest is a separate LEASEHOLD interest in real estate for the purposes the section states.

Pennsylvania's unconsolidated Landlord and Tenant Act, published as a complete act.

A contract or LEASE entered into by the declarant before the unit owners elect their own executive board may be terminated without penalty on the notice the section requires.

Which cooperatives the Uniform Cooperative Act governs. A Pennsylvania cooperative interest is held under a PROPRIETARY LEASE rather than a fee deed, so a transaction that looks like a sale is governed by this subpart…

Except where the subpart expressly allows it, its provisions may NOT be varied by agreement and rights it confers may not be waived. Check before drafting a proprietary lease clause that departs from the statute;

Limits on the liability of the association and proprietary lessees for a declarant's acts, and how claims against the association are handled. Relevant when a lessee is named in a suit about common areas.

The cooperative Act's defined terms, including proprietary lease, cooperative interest and proprietary lessee. These are the words a cooperative occupancy agreement has to use;

The cooperative association's powers, including adopting rules governing use and occupancy, levying assessments, and the remedies it holds against a proprietary lessee.

Who maintains, repairs and replaces what as between the association and the proprietary lessee, subject to the declaration. The allocation to settle expressly in an occupancy agreement.

Cooperative resale documents and certificates have their own required contents and section 4401(b) exemptions.

The tenant's remedies where a landlord fails to repair after proper notice, including termination, repair and deduct, and damages. Advise a landlord on the condition of the property before advising on rent.

SELF-HELP IS TIGHTLY LIMITED. A Texas landlord generally may not interrupt utilities, remove doors or windows or the tenant's property, or lock the tenant out except on the narrow statutory conditions, and the tenant…

A landlord who retains a deposit in BAD FAITH is liable for THREE TIMES the wrongfully withheld portion plus $100 and attorney's fees, and failing to give the written description and itemised list on time raises a…

Which chapter 92 duties may be waived and which may not. Check before drafting any clause that shifts a statutory duty; several cannot be waived at all.

THE NOTICE TO VACATE is the prerequisite to a Texas eviction: generally at least THREE DAYS unless the lease provides otherwise, delivered as the section allows. A defective notice defeats the suit;

The landlord's repair duty and the notice the tenant must give to trigger it. Texas conditions the tenant's remedies on following the statutory notice route; set it out in the lease.

What counts as a security deposit in a Texas residential lease. Read with sections 92.103 and 92.109 for the deadlines and the penalty.

All publisher versions are preserved with their effective-date headings. Determine the operative version and transition conditions for the matter; do not treat future amendments as present law.

The statement the Department of Housing and Community Development is required to develop and publish, which § 55.1-1204(B) obliges a landlord to provide with every written rental agreement, together with the DHCD…

A notice by either party changing any term of a tenancy at will is itself a notice to vacate, given in accordance with the rental agreement or as otherwise required by law.

Virginia entry rule: the TENANT SHALL NOT UNREASONABLY WITHHOLD CONSENT to entry to inspect, repair, service or show the unit.

Lets a servicemember or National Guard member on full-time or technician duty terminate on written notice to the landlord: PCS orders, temporary duty over three months, discharge or release, government quarters, or a…

The publisher presents multiple versions of this section. Read every version with its own effective-date heading and transition provisions; determine which dates or contingencies govern the matter.

A landlord with actual knowledge that the unit contains defective drywall that has not been remediated must disclose it in writing before the tenancy, and the tenant may terminate if it is not disclosed.

Requires written disclosure where the landlord has actual knowledge the property was used to manufacture methamphetamine and has not been cleaned to the Board of Health's standard, with a termination remedy for…

A tenant who is a victim of family abuse, sexual abuse or other criminal sexual assault, stalking, or trafficking may end that tenant's obligations by serving the landlord written notice EFFECTIVE 28 DAYS AFTER SERVICE,…

Lets the landlord accept rent with a written reservation without waiving a pending termination, and gives the tenant a statutory right of redemption by paying all rent, late charges, costs and fees before the return…