State guides
State guides
Where an editor has read the official state pages and found something distinct and useful to say, there is a state guide. Everywhere else, the available tools produce a factual letter with no statements about state law.
Published
Available state guides
2 state guides are published today.
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California Rental Letters: Deposits, Notices and Evictions
What California courts and the Department of Real Estate say about deposit refunds, move-out notices, eviction notices and rent caps, with official links.
Covers: security deposits, tenant notice, landlord notices, eviction process, rent increases, where to get help.
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Texas Rental Letters: Deposits, Notice to Vacate and Repairs
What the Texas State Law Library guide says about 30-day deposit refunds, forwarding addresses, month-to-month notice, the notice to vacate and repair requests.
Covers: security deposits, tenant notice, landlord notices, eviction process, repairs, rent increases, where to get help.
Criteria
How we decide which states get a guide
A state guide is published only when all of the following are true. The point is to avoid fifty near-identical pages that swap the state name and say nothing an official page does not say better.
- Researched. An editor has opened that state's official court self-help, state agency or state law library pages and recorded each one in the source ledger with the date it was checked. Every state guide lists those sources with their check dates.
- Distinct. The guide says something specific to that state: a deadline, a counting rule, a required document, a court program or a local-ordinance pattern that differs from the general advice on the tool pages.
- Useful on its own. The page helps even if you never use a tool: the numbers the official pages state, what they do not cover, and where to get help in that state.
- Dated and honest about its limits. Each guide shows when it was checked and updated, is written by a software engineer rather than an attorney, and says what it does not do.
Everywhere else
If your state is not listed
The available tools still work for every state. The letter is a factual document built from the dates, amounts and addresses you enter. It makes no statement about your state's law, deadlines or penalties, because no rule for your state has been checked, and it never assumes a rule that was not checked. The notes beside each tool tell you what to look up and where, and the sources and coverage page lists what has been checked so far.
Guidance-only tools (landlord notice to vacate, rent increase notice, pay-or-quit notice and the assistance-animal accommodation request) stay switched off in every state until the review described on their pages is recorded. The letter finder states this before you enter anything.
Where state-specific notes appear inside the tools
Derived from the rule packs at build time. A note is an editorial check of an official page, not attorney review, and guidance-only tools remain unavailable regardless of these notes.
- Security Deposit Demand Letter Available Rules on file: California, Texas
- Tenant Notice to Vacate Available Rules on file: California, Texas
- Landlord Notice to Vacate Guidance only, generator not available Rules on file: California, Texas
- Rent Increase Notice Guidance only, generator not available Rules on file: California, Texas
- Pay-or-Quit / Nonpayment Notice Guidance only, generator not available Rules on file: California, Texas
- Pet Addendum Available with limits Rules on file: California
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