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North Carolina security deposit return obligations for landlords

What the statute requires of you in North Carolina: return deadlines, clock triggers, itemization / notice duties, deposit caps, and penalties for non-compliance — drawn from Wherewithal’s statute research corpus. A landlord who complies correctly does not create a statutory penalty claim.

Confidence: PRIMARY

PRIMARY — main elements read against statute text

Deadline to return / account	30d interim / final acct 60d
When the clock starts	termination + move-out
Penalty for non-compliance	forfeit + fees
Deposit cap (maximum you may collect)	2wk / 1.5mo / 2mo by tenancy type
Escrow / interest requirements	yes (trust acct)
Citation	N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 42-50 to 56

Source: N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 42-50 to 56

Compliance flags / traps

⚠ tenancy-type cap

Residual review notes

NC tenancy-type cap numbers: Shape confirmed; exact weekly / MTM / fixed-term cap matrix should be re-read subsection-by-subsection.

Applicability conditions

tenancy_type — cap varies weekly / MTM / fixed-term · tenancy-type schedule

Corpus version: 154038735c0ca407 (hash of human fields; use as last-updated fingerprint)

Deadline calculator

Compliance tool only — estimates the statutory return / accounting window from Wherewithal’s corpus fields. Not legal advice. No case is created.

This state’s corpus does not encode a single numeric day count (split tracks, compound clocks, or non-numeric windows). The calculator will show the statute prose — it will not invent a calendar date.

Move-out / termination date (when possession is delivered)

Tenant side: North Carolina security deposit return rules

Same statute corpus, framed for tenants organizing a deposit-return claim.

Nearby states (landlord side)

Wherewithal is an organizational tool only. Not legal advice. Consider consulting a licensed attorney. This page is compliance information for landlords summarizing statutory duties — not legal advice.

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