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Your situation, stage by stage

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

Where it is held, the itemized list after the tenancy, and the final accounting.

  1. Stage 1 · What the statutes set next

    Telling the tenant where the deposit is held

    Period
    30 days
    From
    The lease beginning
    Whose
    The landlord

    Within 30 days after the lease begins, the landlord tells the tenant the name and address of the bank or institution holding the deposit, or of the insurer providing the bond.

    The whole of it: Getting The Deposit Back →G.S. 42-50

  2. Stage 2 · Later in the statutes

    The landlord's itemization and the deposit balance

    Period
    30 days
    From
    The tenancy ending and the landlord getting the premises back
    Whose
    The landlord

    The landlord mails or delivers a written itemization of any damage with the balance of the deposit; where the claim cannot be settled within 30 days, an interim accounting is due within 30 days instead.

    The whole of it: Getting The Deposit Back →G.S. 42-52

  3. Stage 3 · Later in the statutes

    The final deposit accounting on an unsettled claim

    The date of: The tenancy ending and the landlord getting the premises backThe same date as stage 2, so it is counted from there once that date is in.

    Period
    60 days
    From
    The tenancy ending and the landlord getting the premises back
    Whose
    The landlord

    Where the extent of the claim cannot be settled within 30 days, the final accounting is due within 60 days; nothing may be kept for normal wear and tear, or beyond the landlord's actual damages.

    The whole of it: Getting The Deposit Back →G.S. 42-52

Around these dates

What the law asks of each side between them, a step at a time: The Trust Account And The 30 Days

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