Contact

[email protected]

That reaches me, Ravi. I run this site on my own — there is no team and no support desk, so replies can take a few days. I read everything.

Reporting an error in a state's rule

This is the message worth sending, and I want it. Security deposit statutes get amended, a rate that was right last year may not be right now, and I am one person reading fifty-one of them — so some of this will be wrong, and when it is, it is wrong on a page somebody may act on.

Three things make a correction quick to act on:

• the state, and which figure is wrong
• what it should be
• a link to the statute or official source that says so

A correction that names the statute will be acted on. I will read the section you cite, and if it says what you say it says, I will fix the source record — which updates every page built from it — and change the date that state page shows as last checked. I would rather be corrected in public than be wrong quietly, so I will not argue the point with you on the strength of my own reading over a statute's.

A correction with no citation is still worth sending, but it goes into a queue behind the ones I can verify, because without the section I have to find it myself before I can change anything.

Every state page shows the date its rule was last checked, so if that date is old and you know the law has changed, that alone is worth sending.

Questions about a calculation

Include the state, the deposit amount, and the move-in and move-out dates you entered. The calculator shows a period-by-period breakdown under every result; pasting that in makes it obvious whether the disagreement is about the arithmetic or about the rule.

What this is not

I cannot advise you on your own situation. I am not a lawyer and I have no legal training, so I cannot tell you whether to sue, read your lease, judge whether your landlord's deduction was reasonable, or say how a court in your county will decide your facts. That is not modesty about a service I offer reluctantly — it is a thing I am genuinely unable to do, and an answer from me would be worth less than no answer.

If that is what you need, a local tenants' rights organisation or legal aid clinic is usually free, knows how the courts near you actually behave, and can look at your documents. What this site can do is tell you what the statute says and show you where it says it, which is often enough to write the first letter yourself.

No form, on purpose

There is no contact form here because there is no server behind this site and nothing that stores what you type. Adding a form would mean sending your message through a third party, which would make theprivacy policy longer and less true. A plain email address does the same job.