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Notice follows the lease type — 30 days rolling, one to two months fixed-term — and the deposit sits between one and two months' rent unless a statutory cap pulls it down to five weeks.
Start with the lease type, because notice follows it. A rolling month-to-month tenancy — the arrangement many fixed terms lapse into — carries a 30-day notice period across much of the US. Some states set 60 days and a few 90, so the same flat can carry different notice depending on where it stands.
A fixed-term or assured-shorthold tenancy works differently: notice to leave at the end of the term is commonly one to two months. In every jurisdiction the same hierarchy applies — the clause in the signed lease beats the statutory default, so the notice clause is the first thing to read, before any counting of days.
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The deposit side has its own arithmetic. One to two months' rent is the usual range; where a statutory cap applies, five weeks' rent — about 1.16 months — is the ceiling. Money held above a cap must be returned within 20 to 30 days of the tenancy ending.
Protection is the next check. Within 30 days of the deposit being paid it must normally sit in a tenancy- or deposit-protection scheme, and the tenant should hold a certificate that can be checked against the scheme's register. No certificate after a month is a question to raise immediately, in writing.
At the end of the tenancy the rules tighten again: deductions must be itemised in writing within 30 days, supported by an invoice per charge and the check-out report, and most schemes will reopen a dispute raised within three years. The day-one side of that argument is set out in The Move-In Condition Checklist, and the end-of-tenancy tactics in How to Avoid Losing Your Deposit at Check-Out.
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