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Tennessee security deposit return obligations for landlords

What the statute requires of you in Tennessee: 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 / accountURLTA counties only: discovery/accounting windows (not a clean "return by day 30" duty)
When the clock startsURLTA: counties >75,000 pop per 2010 census (§66-28-102)
Penalty for non-complianceforfeit withhold rights / recover deposit + actual; 60d no-response path
Deposit cap (maximum you may collect)none
Escrow / interest requirementsyes (separate bank acct)
CitationTenn. Code §§ 66-28-102, 66-28-301

Source: Tenn. Code §§ 66-28-102, 66-28-301

Compliance flags / traps

⚠⚠ non-URLTA counties: no statutory deadline; drop unverified "10d/≤25 units" track

Applicability conditions

Corpus version: a3663f6c92dc9044 (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.

Tenant side: Tennessee 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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