Rhode Island security deposit law: the 20-day deadline and your rights
Itemized notice plus the amount due within 20 days after the LATER of termination, delivery of possession, or the tenant's providing a forwarding address for receiving the deposit.
What Rhode Island law says
- Return deadline
- 20 days
- Statute
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-18-19
The statute reads as the amount due TOGETHER WITH damages equal to twice the amount wrongfully withheld, plus attorney fees (§ 34-18-19(c)) — textually a 3x exposure. CAUTION: the only R.I. Supreme Court application (Tambor v. Miller, 2002) recited liability for 'twice that amount' and approved a 2x total; we conservatively model 2x total pending attorney review.
Verification pending. Our attorney-reviewed deep-dive for Rhode Island — with the full case builder, damages calculator, and demand letter generator — isn't live yet. The summary above is drawn from the statute but hasn't completed our legal review; always confirm against the current text of R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-18-19.
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