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? The person with dated photographs wins that argument. 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.