How to handle security deposits, evictions, lease termination, and habitability issues — for renters and landlords.
Ohio does not cap security deposits, but R.C. 5321.16 requires a landlord to return the deposit with itemized deductions within 30 days of move-out and a written forwarding address, or owe double damages and attorney fees.
Pennsylvania limits residential security deposits to two months’ rent in the first year and one month after, and requires landlords to return the deposit or an itemized list of damages within 30 days. Here is what the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951 requires.
How New York’s security deposit rules work since the 2019 rent law: the one-month cap, the 14-day return deadline, allowable deductions, and penalties.
Pennsylvania requires few specific lease clauses, but security-deposit caps, a 30-day return rule, and federal lead-paint disclosure apply to every tenancy.
Ohio does not require a standard lease form, but state law dictates one required disclosure, voids certain clauses, and sets rules on deposits, repairs, and long-term leases.
What Florida law actually requires a residential lease to contain: written-lease rules, mandatory disclosures, void clauses, and the statutory defaults that apply when a lease is silent.
What California law requires in a written residential lease, from mandatory terms and required disclosures to rent-cap notices and the security deposit limit.
How Pennsylvania’s implied warranty of habitability protects tenants: what landlords must keep in working order, and the remedies when they don’t.
Ohio’s warranty of habitability comes from R.C. 5321.04, which requires landlords to keep rentals fit and habitable. Learn what it covers, who is exempt, and how tenants enforce it through rent escrow.
How long a Florida landlord has to return a security deposit, the 30-day notice-of-claim rule, and why the state sets no maximum deposit amount.
New York evictions follow a set legal path from a written notice to a court warrant carried out by a sheriff or marshal. Here is the timeline, stage by stage, with the deadlines that apply at each step.
California security deposit law caps most residential deposits at one month’s rent and requires landlords to return the deposit, with an itemized statement of any deductions, within 21 calendar days of move-out.