Walk It Through: Thirty Days And An Itemized Accounting
A Nevada deposit, from the amount at signing to the court's second sum.
Signing a lease, the landlord asks for a deposit and the last month's rent up front, together more than three months' rent.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One deposit in one rental. What counts as normal wear, how a court weighs a disputed cleaning charge, and a tenant's dispute with the company that wrote a surety bond are not worked through here.
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 tenant pays, which with any surety bond and the last month's rent may not exceed 3 months' periodic rent, and from which a landlord may claim only unpaid rent, repairs for damage beyond normal wear, and reasonable cleaning.
- Surety bondA bond a tenant may buy in place of all or part of a deposit if the landlord accepts it. A landlord may neither require one nor be required to take one.