Deposit return deadline

Your landlord has 60 days to send you back the part of your deposit it is not keeping. The clock starts on the day your lease ends and you hand back the keys to your home.

Suppose you or your landlord gave a written notice ending a week-to-week or month-to-month rental, as AS 34.03.290 describes. Your landlord must mail the written list and your refund within 14 days. The 14 days start after the rental ends and you hand over the home. The landlord gets 30 days to mail the refund if costs are taken out for damage from your not following AS 34.03.120.

Your landlord has 30 days to mail the refund if costs are taken out for damage from your not following AS 34.03.120. This applies when notice that follows AS 34.03.290 was given. The 30 days start when the rental ends.

If you did not give notice that follows AS 34.03.290, your landlord must mail the written notice and refund within 30 days. The 30 days run from when the rental ends, you hand back the home, or the landlord becomes aware that the unit is abandoned.

Your landlord may not have your mailing address. The landlord may know or have reason to know how to contact you. Then the landlord must make a reasonable effort to deliver the list and refund.

After you move out, your landlord has 30 days to return your deposit or send you a written list of what they kept and why. The clock starts on the day the lease ends or the day you move out, whichever is later.

New Mexico law says your landlord has followed the deposit rules by mailing the itemized list and any money owed to your last known address.

After you move out and your lease ends, ask your landlord for your security deposit back. Your landlord then has 14 days to send you a written list of what was taken out of your deposit. Your landlord must also tell you any money you are still owed. The 14 days does not count Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays.

Arkansas's security deposit law applies only to landlords who rent 6 or more homes.

If your landlord rents 6 or more homes, your landlord must return your security deposit within 60 days of when you move.

Your landlord must return your deposit within 30 days after you move out. The 30 days start on the day you hand the home back. Some leases say you must give notice before you move out to get your deposit back. That rule counts only if the lease shows it underlined or in bold print.

Your landlord must return your security deposit within 30 days after your rental ends.

Your landlord has 21 calendar days after you move out to return your deposit. The clock starts the day you leave the home. In that time, the landlord must send you a written list of what was taken out and why, along with the rest of your money.

Your landlord must return your full deposit within 30 days after your lease ends or you hand back the keys, whichever is later. Your lease can set a longer deadline, but never more than 60 days. Your landlord cannot keep any of it for normal wear and tear (ordinary use over time). Your landlord cannot keep money for damage that was already there before you moved in either.

Connecticut law sets a deadline for your landlord to return your security deposit and the interest it earned after you move out. Your landlord must send it back no later than 21 days after your rental ends. If you send your address in writing less than 15 days before that date, your landlord instead gets 15 days from receiving it.

Your landlord may not be entitled to all or part of your security deposit. If so, the landlord must send it to you within 20 days after your rental agreement expires or ends.

If your landlord does not plan to keep any part of your deposit, Florida law requires them to return it within 15 days. This 15-day count starts on the day your lease ends.

If you do not object in time, your landlord is allowed to take the amount they claimed out of your deposit. They must then send you whatever is left within 30 days after the date printed on their notice. This final payment covers whatever amount your landlord did not claim as damage.

A Georgia landlord must return your security deposit within 30 days. The 30 days start on the later of two dates: the day your lease ends or the day you leave the home. This applies to all landlords, no matter how many units they own.

A Georgia landlord must mail your deposit and any list of damage to your last known address. This is true even if that is the home you left. Sometimes the mail comes back and the landlord cannot find you after a reasonable effort. Then the deposit belongs to the landlord 90 days after it was mailed.

Your landlord must return your deposit within 14 days after your rental agreement ends. If your landlord keeps part of it for a reason the law allows, the rest must be returned within the same 14 days.

Your landlord must give you the written notice and the details within 14 days after your rental agreement ends. If not, your landlord cannot keep any part of your deposit. Your landlord must return all of it.

Mailing can show your landlord was on time. The deposit or the written notice must be mailed to the address you gave your landlord. It needs acceptable proof of mailing and a postmark (a mail date stamp) before midnight of day 14 after your rental agreement ends. It is then presumptively proven (accepted as shown, unless shown otherwise) that the landlord did it on time. The same applies if you acknowledged (confirmed) receipt within the 14 days.

If you and your landlord did not agree on a time, the landlord must refund your deposit within 21 days. In any event, the refund is due within 30 days after you give up the rental.

If your landlord does not send the statement and receipts on time, your landlord must return your whole deposit. The deadline is 45 days after you move out. Your landlord may hand it to you or mail it to the address you gave.

In Wang v. Sun (2023), the Indiana Court of Appeals quoted the deposit law. When a rental agreement ends, the landlord must return your security deposit minus some amounts. The amounts are rent that has come due and unpaid utility (home service) or sewer charges you owe under the lease. They also include harm the landlord has suffered or will reasonably suffer because you did not follow the law or lease. The landlord must list each amount in a written notice delivered to you. It is due within 45 days after the agreement ends and you hand over the home.

In Wang v. Sun (2023), the Indiana Court of Appeals quoted the deposit law. The landlord must return your security deposit minus listed amounts. The landlord must list each amount in a written notice delivered to you within 45 days. The 45 days run after the rental agreement ends and you hand over the home. The court quoted the Indiana Supreme Court: the agreement ends after the tenant gives up the home and the landlord accepts that.

In Wang v. Sun (2023), the Indiana Court of Appeals quoted another ruling. Giving up the home (surrender) cannot be done by one party alone. A tenant cannot force a landlord to accept a surrender by acting alone.

If you move out before the lease ends, the 45 days may start later. They may not start until the lease ends or the landlord rents the home to someone new. The Court of Appeals quoted an earlier ruling for this in Wang v. Sun (2023).

After you move out, your landlord has 30 days to send back your deposit. This 30-day clock starts on the day your lease ends and your landlord has received your new address. Instead of returning your money, your landlord may send you a written statement inside those 30 days. That statement must explain why they are keeping some or all of your deposit.

If your landlord does not give you this written statement within 30 days, they lose the right to keep any part of your deposit. This is true even if they had a valid reason. They must return your full deposit to you.

If you never give your landlord your new address, your landlord keeps the whole deposit once 1 year passes from when your lease ended. After that, you give up your right to get any of it back. Send your new address as soon as you move out so this deadline does not apply to you.

Your landlord must return your deposit, or what is left after taking money out of it, within 30 days. This 30-day period starts after the last of three events happens. First, your lease ends. Second, you hand back the keys. Third, you ask your landlord for the deposit.

Sometimes your landlord needs time to work out how much to keep for damage or unpaid rent. In that case, your landlord must send you the rest of the deposit within 14 days of deciding that amount. Either way, your landlord cannot take more than 30 days total after you ask for the deposit.

Sometimes you do not ask your landlord for your deposit. If you do not ask within 30 days after your lease ends, your landlord must mail it to you. Your landlord sends it to the last address your landlord has for you.

If you move out owing no rent, and your landlord owes you money back, Kentucky law requires your landlord to mail you a notice. The notice must go to your last known address, or another address where your landlord can reasonably find you. It must say how much money you are owed.

Your landlord must send you a notice saying how much money you are owed. If you do not respond within 60 days, Kentucky law lets your landlord keep the money for good. Your landlord can take it from the account, free of any claim from you.

Your landlord has 30 days to return what is left of your deposit and send the itemized list. The clock starts the day your tenancy ends.

Your landlord must return the rest of your deposit no later than 30 days after your tenancy ends. Your landlord can hand it to you in person at the place where you pay rent. Or your landlord can mail it to your present address. If your address is unknown, your landlord can mail it to your last known address.

The landlord has 21 calendar days after you move out to act. By then you must get your refund plus a list of what was taken out of your deposit and why.

If you rent a home or apartment and paid a security deposit, your landlord must return it within 1 month after your lease ends. This rule applies whether your lease was written down or only agreed to out loud (an oral lease). Louisiana counts the 1-month deadline from the day your lease ends.

The 1-month deadline to return your deposit does not apply in every case. If you move out without giving the notice your lease requires, the deadline does not apply. It also does not apply if you move out before your lease term is over.

If you have a written rental agreement, your landlord must return your full deposit within the time stated in the agreement. That time cannot be more than 30 days. If there is actual cause to keep part of it, your landlord must instead send a written list of the reasons within that time.

For a tenancy at will (a rental with no written agreement), the deadline is 21 days. It counts from the day the rental ends or the home is handed back and accepted, whichever is later. Within that time, your landlord must return your full deposit or send a written list of the reasons for keeping part of it.

Your landlord meets the deadline by mailing the written list and any payment to your last known address. Give your landlord your new address in writing when you move out.

Your landlord may miss the deadline. Then your landlord loses the right to keep any part of the deposit.

Your landlord must return your security deposit within 45 days after your rental ends. Your landlord can keep only the amount the law allows for damage and must send you the rest.

If you are evicted for breaking your lease, or you leave before your lease ends without your landlord's agreement, special deposit rules apply. You must mail your landlord your new address within 45 days of being evicted or leaving. Your landlord then has 45 days after getting your letter to mail you a list of damage and return your deposit.

Massachusetts law gives your landlord 30 days after your rental ends to return your security deposit or what is left of it. This 30-day clock starts on the day your rental ends. That is the end date in your lease, or the day you move out if you rent month to month.

Your landlord might want to keep part of your deposit for damage. If so, your landlord must mail you a notice within 30 days after you move out.

Your landlord has 45 days after you move out. In that time, your landlord must return the rest of your deposit or start a court case for the damage money. After 45 days, your landlord cannot start that court case. Your landlord can keep part of your deposit without going to court in 4 cases. One case is if you did not give a forwarding address. Another is if you did not respond to the landlord's written list of damage it will charge you. Another is if you and your landlord agreed about it in writing. Another is if the full amount claimed is unpaid rent you owed.

Your landlord has 3 weeks after you move out to do one of two things. They must return your security deposit, or send you a written statement explaining why they are keeping some or all of it. There is a limit if you left because the building was legally condemned (found unsafe to live in). If that was not due to your own misconduct, your landlord then has only 5 days, not 3 weeks. This deadline starts only once your landlord has your mailing address or delivery instructions for where to send it.

Sometimes you must leave your home because the city condemns it (says it is unsafe to live in), through no fault of your own. If this happens, your landlord has 5 days, not 3 weeks, to return your deposit or explain in writing why they kept it. This 5-day deadline also starts only once your landlord has your mailing address or delivery instructions.

If your landlord mails your deposit or their written statement by the deadline, that counts as sending it on time. The mail must be postage-paid first-class mail, addressed correctly to you, with a return address on the envelope.

Your landlord must return the rest of your deposit (what is left after allowed costs). The deadline is 45 days after your rental ends, you give back the home, and you ask for the deposit.

If a rental agreement ends, your landlord must return all prepaid and unearned rent (rent paid for time after the rental ends). The landlord must also return the security (deposit) you can recover under Section 89-8-21.

In Missouri, your landlord has 30 days after your rental ends to deal with your deposit. Your landlord must do one of two things in that time. It can return your full deposit to you. Or it can send you a written list of each damage it is keeping money for, along with the rest of your deposit.

Your landlord must give you a written list of any rent due and any damage and cleaning charges. The list is due within 30 days. The clock starts when your rental ends, or when you give back the home and your landlord accepts it, whichever comes first. The 30-day rule does not apply in one case. Your rental agreement has ended under a Montana law that gives your landlord a claim for possession, rent, and money for its losses. The landlord has filed that claim in court.

Your landlord must send the list together with a refund. The refund is the difference, if any, between your deposit and the allowed charges.

Your landlord must return your deposit within 10 days in one case. This is when, after an inspection, there is no damage to the home, no cleaning is needed and no rent is unpaid. You must also be able to show that no utilities (water, electric, gas) are unpaid.

Your landlord may mail your deposit to your last-known address. If you never gave a new address and do not get the money, that is not keeping it without a legal right. Your landlord still owes you the money.

Your landlord must deliver or mail the balance of your deposit (the part that is left). The deadline is 14 days after the date your tenancy (your time renting) ends.

Your landlord has 30 days after you move out to send you the rest of your deposit and the written list. The clock starts on the day your rental ends. This deadline applies no matter who ended the rental, you or your landlord, and no matter the reason.

Your landlord must return your security deposit and pay the interest due, if any. The deadline is 30 days from the end of your tenancy (your time renting the home). You can ask for the interest earlier. Every 3 years, ask 30 days before that rental year ends. Your landlord must then comply within 15 days after that year ends.

Your landlord must return your security deposit, plus any interest it earned, within 30 days after your lease ends. Your landlord can take out allowed costs first.

You may be forced to leave your home because of a fire, flood, condemnation, or evacuation. Condemnation means a government order that the building is unsafe to live in. If that happens, your landlord must return your deposit within 5 business days. Two situations trigger this shorter deadline. An official may have posted a notice banning people from living there. Or an official may have certified that displacement will last more than 7 days.

If you break your lease and move out early without legal cause, the 30-day clock does not start when you leave. It starts when your landlord re-rents the unit or your original lease ends, whichever happens first. This only applies if you gave your landlord the notice your lease requires.

After you move out, your landlord has 30 days to send you a written statement about your deposit. It must list any part your landlord is keeping and why, and the balance still owed to you. The 30 days starts on the day your lease ends or the day you move out, whichever is later.

New Mexico law says your landlord has followed the deposit rules by mailing you the written list and any money owed. They must mail it to your last known address.

Within 14 days after you move out, your landlord must send you a list of what they kept and why. They must also return the rest of the deposit. The clock starts the day you leave the home. Give your landlord your new address in writing so the money and the list can reach you.

After you move out, your landlord has 14 days to return your deposit. This deadline applies to apartments that are not rent stabilized (a program that limits rent increases) or rent controlled.

After you move out, North Carolina law says your landlord must use your deposit for allowed costs or refund it to you.

Your landlord must send you a written list that explains each item of damage, along with the rest of your deposit, within 30 days. This 30-day period starts the day your lease ends and you hand back the keys.

If your landlord cannot yet tell the damage cost, your landlord must first send a partial accounting within 30 days after your lease ends. Your landlord must then send a complete accounting within 60 days after your lease ends.

If your landlord does not have your address, your landlord can apply your deposit to allowed costs starting 30 days after your lease ends. After that, your landlord must hold what is left of your deposit for you to collect for at least 6 months.

Your landlord must pay you your security deposit and any interest it earned when your lease ends. The landlord may first take out the costs the law lists.

If your landlord keeps any part of your deposit, the landlord must deliver or mail you a written notice within 30 days. The 30 days start after your lease ends and you hand over the home.

Your landlord has 30 days to act after your lease ends and you move out and hand back the keys. In that time, they must either return your full security deposit or send you a written notice. That notice must list and explain any part of the deposit they are keeping.

After you move out and give back your keys, send your landlord a written request for your deposit. If your landlord plans to keep part of it, your landlord must send you the rest within 45 days. The 45 days start after your lease ends, you give back your keys, and your landlord gets your written request.

You must send your landlord a written request for your deposit within 6 months after your lease ends. If you do not, your landlord can keep your whole deposit. You then lose your right to ask for it back.

Oregon law gives your landlord 31 days after your renting ends and you hand back your keys (deliver possession) to return your security deposit. That includes any part of the deposit your landlord is not keeping for a reason allowed by law.

After you move out, Pennsylvania's deposit rules still protect you. First, give your landlord your new address in writing: without it, you lose these protections. Your landlord then has 30 days to return your deposit or send you a written list of damage and costs. The 30 days count from the day the lease ends or the day you hand the home back, whichever comes first. The law also lets a landlord keep deposit money for unpaid rent or a broken lease. A landlord who says you broke the lease may keep the deposit for that reason, and a court may have to decide who is right.

Your landlord has 30 days to act. They must send you a written list of any damage they say you caused. They must also send the deposit money left after those repair costs. The 30 days are counted from the day the lease ends or the day you hand the keys back, whichever comes first.

Your landlord has 30 days after your lease ends, or after you hand back the keys, whichever comes first. They must send a written list of any damage they say you caused, plus the deposit money left after those repair costs. This 30-day rule does not stop your landlord from keeping deposit money you already owe for unpaid rent or for breaking another lease rule.

A Rhode Island landlord must send you a written notice and the deposit money due to you within 20 days. The 20 days start on the latest of three dates. One is the end of the tenancy (your time as a renter). One is delivery of possession (handing over the home). One is the day you give the landlord a forwarding address for the deposit.

Your landlord has 30 days after you move out to return your deposit. If they keep any of it, they must send you a written statement in those same 30 days saying why.

If your landlord takes any money out of your deposit, your landlord must send you a written notice within 30 days. That notice must list each amount taken and any money you are still owed. The 30 days start after your lease ends, you move out, and you ask for your deposit back, whichever comes last.

Your landlord must return your deposit, or send you a written statement of the reason for keeping it, within 21 days. The 21 days start after your rental ends and your landlord has your mailing address or delivery instructions.

Your landlord must return your deposit within 30 days after you move out and return the keys. If you gave your forwarding address later, the 30 days runs from that date. The landlord meets the deadline if the refund or the list of what was taken out is mailed by day 30. The post office date stamp on the envelope must show day 30 or earlier.

Your landlord or the landlord's agent must mail or deliver the balance of your deposit and the balance of any prepaid rent. This must happen no later than 30 days after the day you move out and give the home back. The 30 days count from the day after that. The landlord may send it to your last known address. The landlord may also send it electronically (using a computer or phone) by a means you gave the landlord.

After you serve the late-deposit notice, your landlord or the landlord's agent has 5 business days. The 5 business days start on the day after the notice is served. In that time the landlord must send the balance of your deposit and the balance of any prepaid rent. The landlord must also send a written list of any amounts taken out, with the reasons.

Your landlord must return your security deposit with a written list of any money kept. The deadline is 14 days. The 14 days start on the day your landlord discovers you moved out or left the home. They start on the day you moved out if your landlord got notice from you of that date. For a seasonal rental that is not meant as a main home, the deadline is 60 days.

Some rentals are seasonal and not meant as a primary residence. For those, your landlord has 60 days to return the security deposit with the written list of money kept.

Your landlord must hand-deliver or mail the written statement and any payment to your last known address.

Your landlord must send you a written list of any money taken out of your deposit within 45 days, with each item explained. This 45-day clock starts from whichever date is later, the day your lease ends or the day you move out. Your landlord must send any money owed to you within that same 45 days.

After you move out, your landlord has 30 days to act. Your landlord must return your deposit or send a full written statement explaining why they kept any of it. This 30-day clock starts when your lease ends and you leave the home. Your landlord must include copies of bills, invoices (paperwork asking for payment), or receipts to back up any damage charges.

If your landlord misses the 30-day deadline, your landlord owes you the full deposit back. Your landlord also cannot argue in court that they deserve to keep any of it. This does not apply if something beyond your landlord's control caused the delay, or if you abandoned the home.

DC deposit rules cover each rental unit, except a few kinds such as nursing homes. Within 45 days after your rental ends, your landlord must notify you in writing of any alleged (claimed) unpaid amounts. The landlord can deliver the notice in person, by email, or by certified mail to your forwarding address. The notice must include photos or other papers that support the claim. It must say you can dispute the amounts.

In DC, your landlord has 45 days after you move out to act on your deposit. The landlord must return it with interest, or tell you in writing that it will pay for legitimate (proper) costs. Those costs must be listed within 30 more days.

Your landlord must give you your deposit, minus any money taken out for damage or other charges. The landlord must also give you a written list of that damage or those charges. The deadline is 60 days after your rental ends, or 45 days after a new tenant moves in, whichever is shorter.

Your landlord must mail or hand you your full security deposit, minus any amount Wisconsin law lets them keep, within 21 days. If you move out on the last day named in your lease, the 21 days start on that day.

If you move out or are evicted before your lease ends, the 21 days start on the date your lease was set to end. If your landlord rents the home to someone else before then, the 21 days start when the new renter moves in instead.

If you move out or are evicted after your lease ends, the 21 days start on the day your landlord learns you left.

A Wyoming landlord must deliver or mail the rest of your deposit and any prepaid rent, without interest. The landlord must send a written list of what was taken out of the deposit and why. The deadline is 30 days after the rental agreement ends, or 15 days after the landlord gets your new mailing address, whichever is later. If there is damage to the home, the deadline is extended by 30 days.

In Wyoming, a landlord has 30 more days to return the deposit if the rental unit is damaged. The same extra time applies to the written list of what was taken out.

After a rental agreement ends, a Wyoming landlord must refund a utilities (water, electric, gas) deposit that is held and separately identified as one. The deadline is 10 days after the renter shows that all utility charges are paid.