Category · 5 topics
Housing & Tenant Law by State
What a landlord can charge, when they can come in, and how much warning you are owed before an eviction or a rent increase. Five rental topics, one page per state, every figure cited to the statute.
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Each topic opens a state-by-state hub; every figure inside is cited to the official statute.
How landlord-tenant law is organized
Almost everything about renting is state law, and the state answer is usually a single number: how many months of rent a deposit can be, how many days the landlord has to return it, how many hours of notice they owe before entering, how many days an eviction notice must give you. These pages exist to hand you that number with its citation, so you can quote the section instead of arguing about what feels fair.
The five topics follow the life of a tenancy. The security deposit rules apply the day you sign; landlord entry and late fee rules govern the months you live there; rent increase notice and eviction notice decide how the tenancy changes or ends. A fair number of states are silent on some of these, with no deposit cap or no late fee limit at all. Where that is the case the page says the statute is silent rather than inventing a limit, because knowing there is no cap is itself the answer.