Walk It Through: The Deposit at Move Out
A move in damage list, notice to leave a month to month, a walk through at the end, and a deposit kept.
Signing a lease in a county that adopted the landlord tenant act, a tenant pays a deposit and is handed a list of existing damage.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A rental in a city or county that adopted the act. Where it has not, the deposit section does not apply, and a different notice rule governs ending the tenancy.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Security depositMoney a landlord holds against damage, kept in a separate account, with a damage list at move in and move out.
- Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant ActThe rental law in KRS 383.505 to 383.705, which applies only where a city, county or urban county government has adopted it, whole and without amendment.
- Good faithSeeking medical help for an overdose genuinely, which protects the caller and the person overdosing from possession and paraphernalia charges from evidence found because of it.