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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 notice that ends a month to month tenancy, and the deposit after it.

  1. Stage 1 · What the statutes set next

    Ending a month to month tenancy

    Period
    At least 1 month
    From
    The notice being received
    Whose
    The landlord or the tenant

    Either side ends a month to month tenancy by written notice stating it ends on a rent paying date at least one month after the notice is received.

    The whole of it: Notice To End A Tenancy →Mo. Rev. Stat. § 441.060

  2. Stage 2 · Later in the statutes

    Returning the deposit or listing the damages

    Period
    30 days
    From
    The tenancy ending
    Whose
    The landlord

    The landlord returns the full security deposit, or gives the tenant a written itemized list of the damages it is being kept for along with the balance; wrongfully withholding it costs twice the amount withheld.

    The whole of it: Getting The Deposit Back →Mo. Rev. Stat. § 535.300

Around these dates

What the law asks of each side between them, a step at a time: The Deposit And The Last Month

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