It's a standard practice when it comes to renting property: You put down a security deposit, usually the amount of one month's rent, with your landlord. But what about the sometimes substantial ...

Only one-third of all states require landlords to pay their tenants interest on security deposits. In that case, your landlord typically sets up a separate trust account with your deposit.

Most renter deposits and fees have legal parameters. If your landlord breaks them, you can get your money back — maybe even double.

Rental Resource A deposit is a deposit, right? Not necessarily. For renters, there are security deposits, pet deposits, cleaning deposits and damage deposits, to name a few. And, of course, they ...

Landlords can use deposits to satisfy unpaid rent and repair damages made deliberately, but Bridge says landlords cannot keep any additional administrative fees "that they did not disclose in ...

If you’re just getting into the landlord business: A security deposit is money a new tenant pays you up front, usually to cover things like necessary repairs caused by renters or a missed rent ...

In 2013, Scotland’s rental protection scheme reported that 40 percent of all tenants needed to borrow money to pay their security deposits.