Fourteen business days. Arizona gives landlords one of the shortest security deposit deadlines in the country — miss it, and the tenant’s leverage goes up fast. The deadline: 14 business days after you move out Arizona’s Residential Landlord and Tenant Act requires a landlord to return your security deposit, or a written itemized list of…
Thirty days. That’s how long a Georgia landlord has to return your deposit or send you an itemized list of deductions — and if they blow the deadline, they can lose the right to keep any of it. The deadline: 30 days after you move out Under Georgia’s security deposit statute (O.C.G.A. § 44-7-34), a…
Thirty days — that’s the window Washington state gives your landlord to return your security deposit or tell you in writing exactly why they’re keeping part of it. Miss it, and the law shifts hard in the tenant’s favor. The deadline: 30 days after you move out Washington’s Residential Landlord-Tenant Act (RCW 59.18.280) requires landlords…
Thirty days. That’s all the time Massachusetts gives your landlord to return your security deposit — and the state backs that deadline with one of the harshest penalties in the country if they blow it. The deadline: 30 days, and the clock doesn’t wait Under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 186, Section 15B, a landlord has…
Illinois flips the usual logic: landlords get only 30 days if they’re deducting anything, but 45 days if they’re not. Here’s how the deadlines, receipts, and Chicago’s extra rules actually work.
Pennsylvania caps your deposit at two months’ rent in year one and just one month’s rent after that — and gives landlords 30 days to return it or risk owing double what they withheld.
New York capped security deposits at one month’s rent statewide back in 2019, and gives landlords just 14 days to return one. Miss that window and they forfeit the right to keep any of it — here’s how the rule actually works.
Florida runs two different deposit deadlines depending on whether your landlord is keeping any of it — and if you don’t object to a claim letter within 15 days, the law treats your silence as agreement.
Texas sets no cap on security deposits, but it gives landlords just 30 days to return one — and a bad-faith violation can cost them three times what they withheld, plus $100 and your legal fees.
California gives landlords exactly 21 days to return your deposit or itemize every deduction. Here’s the deadline, the deposit cap, what a valid itemized statement has to include, and what happens when landlords miss the window.
