Notice periods, deposit caps and return deadlines are set by statute and they are not close to uniform. Using a 30-day notice where the law wants 60 does not get you a warning; it gets your case dismissed.
The strictest of the three. AB 1482 caps most increases, long-term tenants are owed 60 days rather than 30, and the deposit clock is the shortest in the country.
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Miss the 21-day deposit deadline and you can owe the whole deposit back regardless of damage.
The most permissive. No rent control, no statutory cap on the deposit, and an eviction timeline measured in weeks rather than months.
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The short notice period is not an excuse to skip the written notice. Courts still want the paper.
Notice length depends on the tenancy term, and there are notification duties around where the deposit is held that landlords routinely miss.
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Entry notice is measured in hours, not days. Plan repairs around it.
Long-form guides exist for the three states above. Every other state has its notice periods, deposit rules and return deadlines applied automatically to the forms you generate.
The other half is a notice that applies it. Pick your state and the form arrives with the right notice period already counted.