Why this site exists
Most pages about landlord-tenant law are prose that ends in "consult an attorney". The disputes themselves are about numbers: how much interest, how big an increase, how large a fee, which date. This site turns the statutes into calculators and keeps the figures current.
The hard part is not the arithmetic. It is that the inputs change on a schedule nobody tracks in one place: Connecticut announces a deposit index every December, Chicago every January, Oregon publishes a rent cap every September, the Rent Guidelines Board votes every June, and California’s cap is a formula applied to a CPI release that no state agency turns into a table. Sites that copied last year’s number are still ranking. Each page here names the publisher, the period and the date the figure was checked.
What we commit to
- Primary sources. Every rule links to the statute, ordinance or publishing agency. Where a figure could only be confirmed through a secondary source, the page says so.
- Dated verification. Each page shows when its rules were last checked. The change log records what moved.
- The exceptions, in the open. Thresholds, exemptions and local overrides appear next to the result, not in a footnote.
- Independence. The site is funded by display advertising and is not affiliated with any landlord or tenant organisation.
Who maintains it
RentByState Research: statute review and calculator maintenance. The methodology page describes the verification process and what each tool does and does not model. This is general legal information, not legal advice.
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