Your landlord is on a clock
Every state gives a landlord a fixed number of days to return your deposit or itemize what they kept. Miss it and the penalties are steep - in some states they lose the right to keep a cent. Most tenants never find out.
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Find your state
More states in progress. Each one is read from the statute itself and cross-checked before it goes up - never summarised.
Why we quote the statute
Around 40% of renters get hit with move-out charges they disagree with, and almost none know what their state's deadline is or what happens when a landlord blows past it. There is a great deal of confident, wrong writing about this online. So every fact here is quoted from the law and linked to its source - you should not have to take our word for it, and a landlord is far more likely to move when you can point at the section number.
Before you move out
Most disputes turn on one question: was that damage there before you were? Dated photographs are the strongest evidence you can bring to that question. The tool below walks you through it room by room and exports a timestamped PDF. Your photos never leave your device - no upload, no account, no server.