MyTenant Rights
Plain-English renter rights for every state, with the statute behind each rule.
Repair Request Letter Generator
Build a dated repair request that cites your state's repair statute, ready to print or send.
Deposit Demand Letter
Check whether your landlord missed the return deadline, then send a demand letter that names it.
Break-a-Lease Cost Calculator
Compare the worst case with what you may really owe if your landlord must re-rent.
Notice Deadline Calculator
Find the earliest date a move-out, rent-increase or entry notice takes effect in your state.
Latest Tenant Rights Guides
Wyoming Section 8 Rules: Landlords May Decline Vouchers
Wyoming's Fair Housing Act doesn't cover source of income. How Cheyenne Housing Authority's lists work, its 2027 reporting rule, and how rent is figured.
Wisconsin Section 8 Rules: Lawful Source of Income Is Protected
Wisconsin's open housing law protects lawful source of income, and cities may go further. What that means for vouchers, Dane County's list, and complaints.
West Virginia Section 8 Rules: No Source-of-Income Protection
West Virginia law lets landlords refuse vouchers. The Fair Housing Act's new home in Chapter 16B, CKHA's paper-only waitlist, and what to bring.
Washington DC Section 8 Rules: No Credit Screens for Vouchers
DC law treats Section 8 as protected income and bars credit-score and income-level screens for subsidized renters. DCHA's list is closed; LRSP explained.
Washington Section 8 Rules: Refusals Can Cost 4.5x Monthly Rent
RCW 59.18.255 bans source-of-income refusals statewide, changes income screening for voucher holders, and lets tenants sue for up to 4.5x the rent.
Virginia Section 8 Rules: Source-of-Funds Law and the 15-Day Clock
Virginia bans source-of-funds bias, but owners of 4 or fewer units are exempt and a landlord may move on after 15 days without approval....
Vermont Section 8 Rules: Landlords Can’t Refuse Public Assistance
Vermont bars refusing tenants who get housing assistance, with a 3-unit owner-occupied exemption. VSHA and Burlington waitlists and landlord incentives.
Tenant Law in Your State
Pick your state to see its security deposit rules: the cap, the return deadline and what happens if your landlord keeps the money.
Three Things to Check Before You Act
Most renter problems turn on the same three facts.
Which state, and which city?
Landlord-tenant law is mostly state law, and some cities add rent control or just-cause rules on top. The same lease clause can be legal in one state and void in the next.
What does your lease actually say?
A lease can add protections, but it cannot waive the ones state law gives you. Read the notice, entry and fee clauses against your state's statute.
Can you prove it in writing?
Notices, repair requests and deposit demands work best in writing, dated, with proof of delivery. Photos and a paper trail win most disputes before court.
Tenant Rights Guides by Topic
Plain-English answers, with the statute behind each rule so you can check it yourself.
State Tenant Rights Guides
Every state's core renter protections in one place: deposits, notice, repairs, entry and eviction.
View State Tenant Rights Guides →State Eviction Process Guides
How an eviction actually moves through court in each state, the notice periods, and the defenses that work.
View State Eviction Process Guides →Security Deposit Guides
Deposit limits, return deadlines, allowed deductions and the penalties a landlord faces for keeping it wrongly.
View Security Deposit Guides →Rent Increase & Rent Control
How much and how often rent can go up, the notice required, and where rent control or caps apply.
View Rent Increase & Rent Control →Repairs & Habitability
What a landlord must repair, how fast, and what a tenant can lawfully do when they will not.
View Repairs & Habitability →Breaking a Lease & Moving Out
When you can end a lease early without owing the rest of it, and how to leave without losing your deposit.
View Breaking a Lease & Moving Out →
Renter problems, answered state by state
A free, plain-English guide to tenant rights in all 50 states, with the statute behind every rule.
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