Security Deposit Itemization

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…

A residential lease provision by which the tenant waives rights under sections 1950.5 or 1954, the right to sue the landlord, the right to notice or hearing, procedural rights in litigation, or the landlord's duty of…

A landlord may enter a dwelling unit only in listed cases, including to make an inspection under subdivision (f) of section 1950.5, generally during normal business hours and on reasonable written notice stating the…

Where personal property remains after a tenancy has ended and the tenant has vacated, the landlord must give written notice to the tenant and any person believed to own the property, describing it, stating that…

The chapter containing section 1950.5 applies to all persons who hire dwelling units in California, including tenants, lessees, boarders and lodgers, but not to certain transient hotel and motel occupancies described in…

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 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…

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.

Connecticut rule that a housing authority, community housing development corporation or other state-assisted provider of public housing for senior citizens and disabled persons must return any security deposit with…

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.

Connecticut procedure when the sole occupant of a dwelling unit dies: if the lease permits termination on death and the landlord has complied with it, the landlord may send the prescribed notice to the emergency contact…

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

Official Connecticut Department of Banking page stating that, under C.G.S. § 36a-26, the deposit index for calendar year 2026 is 0.49%, the rate listed for rental security deposit interest under 47a-21(i), and listing…

Connecticut rule that the Banking Commissioner determines and publishes, by December fifteenth of the prior year, a deposit index for each calendar year, defined as the average of the national rates for savings and…

Definitions for Connecticut's landlord and tenant title: landlord includes the owner, lessor or sublessor of the dwelling unit, and the section defines action, building and housing codes, dwelling unit, owner, person,…

Connecticut list of tenant duties: comply with health and safety code obligations, keep the occupied premises as clean and safe as their condition permits, remove waste, keep plumbing fixtures and appliances clean, use…

Connecticut mitigation rule: if a tenant abandons the dwelling unit the landlord must make reasonable efforts to rent it at a fair rental, and if the landlord does not, the rental agreement is deemed terminated by the…

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…

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 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;

The landlord must deliver possession at the start of the term. Read with section 5304 for the tenant's remedies if they cannot.

Delaware rule allowing a tenant to buy a surety bond instead of paying all or part of a security deposit, which the landlord need not accept, capped with any deposit at one month's rent except as § 5514(a)(3) permits,…

The Code's treatment of landlord liens and distress for rent. Self-help remedies a landlord may believe they have are constrained here.

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.

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.

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…

The statutory frame for District security deposits: deposits are collected under the Security Deposit Act and 14 DCMR 308 et seq., a housing provider may not withhold for ordinary wear and tear, and within 45 days after…

A District housing provider may charge a late fee of no more than 5% of the full amount of rent due, only if the written lease states the maximum fee and only after the rent is 5 days late or any longer grace period in…

Establishes the summary possession action in the Superior Court and the summons that starts it. It is the procedural end point of every District lease default clause.

A tenancy at will is terminated by 30 days' notice to quit. Useful where the District lease contemplates a holdover or an unwritten arrangement.

Governs a tenant holding over after the term and the notice required to end that tenancy. The lease's holdover article should be drafted against it.

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.

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

Florida text for rental agreements entered into or renewed on or after July 1, 2023, allowing a landlord to offer a fee in lieu of a security deposit and, where the tenant pays the fee, requiring the landlord to notify…

Landlord maintenance duties and statutory exclusions or permitted written modifications depend on the type of dwelling.

Florida definitions for the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, including advance rent, building, housing and health codes, deposit money, dwelling unit, landlord, rent, rental agreement and tenant.

A lease provision purporting to WAIVE OR PRECLUDE A TENANT'S RIGHTS under this part, or to limit the landlord's liability arising by law, is VOID AND UNENFORCEABLE, and a landlord who uses one knowing it is void is…

Florida text allowing the party in whose favor judgment is rendered in a civil action to enforce a rental agreement or part II of chapter 83 to recover reasonable attorney fees and costs from the nonprevailing party,…

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.

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.

Official Maryland Judiciary self-help page on housing cases. Its security deposit section states that for a landlord to keep any part of a deposit, the landlord must mail the tenant, within 45 days after the tenancy…

Official Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development page for its security deposit interest calculator, covering residential leases and mobile home park rental agreements for deposits held on or after…

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…

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…

Lets a tenant deduct from rent the payments the tenant made to a utility service provider, including a new-account security deposit, where an oral or written lease for an affected dwelling unit requires the landlord to…

Includes a certificate of mailing and separate choices to decline or make a binding offer. Its mailing-date instruction must be read with section 8-119(c)(4), which uses delivery by the landlord;

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;

The OWNER of an affected property must give the tenant the Department's tenant-rights notice at lease execution or inception and at least every 2 years after, with the current § 6-818 inspection certificate.

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

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

Official Massachusetts Attorney General guidance stating that a security deposit may not exceed one month's rent, must be held in a separate interest-bearing Massachusetts bank account protected from the landlord's…

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

For tenancies not governed by the Anti-Eviction Act, three months' notice to quit terminates the tenancy.

For tenants covered by section 2 of the Anti-Eviction Act, a lease provision permitting termination or nonrenewal without statutory good cause, or waiving other rights under the Act, is against public policy and…

A tenant who holds over and pays rent after a term expires becomes a month-to-month tenant on the same terms, not a year-to-year tenant.

Money or other security deposited under a lease or license of real property remains the property of the person who deposited it, is held in trust, and may not be mingled with the recipient's own property or become an…

A landlord may not require more than one and one-half times one month's rent as security for residential property.

A tenant who has received financial assistance through a State or federal program, including welfare or rental assistance, is not required to sue to recover deposits a landlord withheld in violation of the security…

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.

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.

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…

Sets the notice required to terminate a monthly tenancy in New York City. Read it together with § 226-c, which now supplies the longer occupancy-based periods.

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…

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;

Defines rent in a residential summary proceeding as the monthly or weekly amount charged in consideration for use and occupancy, excluding fees and charges such as late fees and legal fees.

Governs adjournments and when a court may require a tenant to deposit rent, as narrowed by the 2019 reforms. It limits the practical leverage a landlord-side lease can create.

Ohio text defining tenant, landlord and residential premises for chapter 5321, the Landlords and Tenants Act, in terms of a dwelling unit for residential use and occupancy, which marks the boundary between that chapter…

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.

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.

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…

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

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;

Magisterial district judges have jurisdiction of, among the matters listed, those arising under The Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951 that the act states to be within their jurisdiction, with the remaining paragraphs on…

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;

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

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.

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.

Texas text requiring a landlord whose lease did not require a security deposit, and whose tenant is liable for damages and charges on surrender, to give the tenant written notice of the claim on or before reporting it…

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.

The landlord must refund the deposit within THIRTY DAYS after the tenant surrenders the premises, and the tenant's forwarding address is a condition of the obligation.

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…

Texas text stating that the security deposit subchapter, sections 92.101 through 92.113, applies to all residential leases. Read with sections 92.103, 92.104 and 92.109 before preparing an itemized deduction statement.

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.

Texas text stating that a landlord who receives a security deposit or rent prepayment from a tenant who fails to occupy the dwelling may not retain it if the tenant secures a satisfactory replacement tenant who occupies…

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.

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…

The landlord must comply with building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety, make all repairs needed to put and keep the premises fit and habitable, keep common areas shared by two or more units of a…

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

Virginia text: a landlord may require damage insurance and renter's insurance at the tenant's cost, and those premium payments are rent, not a security deposit;

Virginia text: at the end of the tenancy, by expiration or the tenant's default, the tenant must promptly vacate, removing all personal property and leaving the premises in good and clean order, reasonable wear and tear…

The defined terms fix the economics of the lease: "rent" is all money other than a security deposit owed or paid to the landlord under the agreement, including prepaid rent more than one month ahead;

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.

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.