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WHERE YOU ARE

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.

Which situation is yours

The deposit after the tenancy ends and the address is given, and the return once an action for it begins.

  1. Stage 1 · What the statutes set next

    Returning the deposit, or saying why it is kept

    Period
    3 weeks
    From
    The tenancy ending and the landlord receiving the tenant's mailing address or delivery instructions
    Whose
    The landlord

    The landlord returns the deposit with interest, or gives the tenant a written statement of the specific reason for keeping any part of it, within three weeks.

    The whole of it: Getting The Deposit Back →Minn. Stat. 504B.178

  2. Stage 2 · Later in the statutes

    Returning the deposit after a suit for it begins

    Period
    2 weeks
    From
    An action for the deposit beginning
    Whose
    The landlord

    Bad faith retention, which adds punitive damages up to $500 per deposit, is presumed when the landlord missed the deadline and does not return the deposit within two weeks after an action for it begins.

    The whole of it: Getting The Deposit Back →Minn. Stat. 504B.178

Around these dates

What the law asks of each side between them, a step at a time: Three Weeks And A Forwarding Address

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