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Texas security deposit return obligations for landlords

What the statute requires of you in Texas: 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	30 days
When the clock starts	LATER of surrender + forwarding address
Penalty for non-compliance	$100 + 3× portion wrongfully withheld + fees
Deposit cap (maximum you may collect)	none
Escrow / interest requirements	no
Citation	Tex. Prop. Code §§ 92.101 to 113

Source: Tex. Prop. Code §§ 92.101 to 113

Compliance flags / traps

⚠ bad-faith presumption §92.109(d) if miss day 30

Corpus version: 5d7266691d760aa1 (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 encodes a primary numeric window of 30 days. Enter the move-out / possession-delivery date the statute keys on.

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

Tenant side: Texas security deposit return rules

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

Nearby states (landlord side)

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