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General deposit limit
1 month’s rent
The general residential limit is one month’s rent in addition to first-month rent paid at or before initial occupancy.
Scope notes
- A qualifying natural-person small landlord with no more than two rental properties totaling no more than four units may collect up to two months’ rent.
- The small-landlord exception does not apply to a prospective tenant who is a service member.
- The current cap rules do not apply to security collected or demanded before July 1, 2024.
Open primary-source trail
Source excerpt
“security … in excess of an amount equal to one month’s rent”
§ 1950.5(c)(1), (5), (6)
- Authority
- California Legislative Information
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- Source checked
- Confidence
- High — direct statute text