Walk It Through: Thirty Days And Three Times The Amount
A South Carolina deposit, from the lease to the itemized notice.
Signing a lease, the tenant notices a clause saying the tenant gives up any rights under the landlord and tenant act.
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 damage beyond the tenant's duties, deposits in buildings with different standards, and a deposit on a lot for a manufactured home 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.
- Forwarding addressThe address the tenant gives the landlord in writing for the deposit notice. Without it, the tenant is not entitled to the deposit damages where the landlord had no notice of the tenant's whereabouts and mailed to the last known address.
- Security/rental depositProperty or money a landlord holds as security, returned at the end of the tenancy less accrued rent and damages from the tenant's failure to keep up the unit, with any deduction itemized in writing.
- Confession of judgmentA term authorizing someone to confess a judgment against the tenant on a claim under the rental agreement, which a rental agreement may not contain.