Your situation, stage by stage
Pick the situation that is yours and put in each date once, on the stage it belongs to. The page shows the stage you are at and the period the statutes set after it, with whose period it is and the section it comes from. It says what the law sets, never what to do about it.
All of it runs in this browser. The dates are the same ones Your clock and your case file hold, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. What this site records.
Stage 1 · What the statutes set next
The landlord holds the deposit in a separate, interest bearing account in a Massachusetts bank and within 30 days gives the tenant a receipt naming the bank and its location, the amount and the account number.
Stage 2 · Later in the statutes
With the deposit, or within ten days after the tenancy begins if later, the landlord gives a signed statement of the unit's present condition listing any existing damage.
Stage 3 · Later in the statutes
The landlord returns the deposit or its balance within thirty days; one who fails to forfeits the right to keep any of it and owes the tenant three times the amount due plus interest at five per cent, court costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
What the law asks of each side between them, a step at a time: The Receipt And The Statement Of Condition
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Every stage here is a period on the clock. A situation that is not listed may still have its periods there, and Your clock counts any one of them from a date.
MyRightz is legal education, not legal advice. Nothing here creates an attorney client relationship. Applying the law to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Massachusetts attorney.
