Articles about landlord-tenant law for US DIY legal readers.
Six states make landlords pay interest on security deposits automatically, nine more attach conditions, and 36 require nothing statewide, until a city ordinance flips the answer. The verified 2026 table: every state’s rule, rate mechanism, and statute, from Minnesota’s flat 1 percent to Massachusetts’ 5, plus the Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco city layers. Free CC-BY dataset.
The lease says no pets and the dog has been in the window since Tuesday. That calls for a lease violation notice, the cure or quit warning that gives a tenant a set window to fix a non-rent breach before eviction can start. Here is a free template to copy, every state’s cure period from California’s 3 days to DC’s 30, and the fair-housing check to run before the notice touches the door.
A free, fillable lease renewal agreement template for landlords and tenants, plus the notice windows the law sets, what happens when a lease silently rolls over, and a copy-paste renewal offer letter.