The same question, fifty different answers.

Some landlord-tenant rules are broadly similar everywhere. Others differ so much between states that a national answer is worse than no answer, because it sounds authoritative while describing somewhere else. These pages take one of those rules and lay the states side by side, with every figure cited to the statute it comes from and linked to its text.

Security deposit return deadlines by state#

How long you have, what starts the clock, what has to be in the envelope, and what missing it costs. 5 states verified against statute so far.

Why these are built slowly#

A fifty-row table is quick to produce and almost always partly wrong, because the sources it would be assembled from are themselves summaries. These are built a few states at a time, from the statute text, and published with the count stated plainly. A gap you can see is more useful than a figure you cannot check.