Kansas Landlord-Tenant Laws

Verified July 11, 2026

Kansas Security deposits

Kansas caps security deposits at one month's rent for an unfurnished rental, 1½ months' rent if the unit comes furnished, plus up to an extra half month's rent as a pet deposit when the lease allows pets.

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Kansas Rent increase notice

Kansas has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 30-day figure quoted for month-to-month tenancies is derived from K.S.A. 58-2570(b), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy by written notice effective on a rent-paying date at least 30 days after the other side receives it, so a landlord proposing higher rent is effectively offering new terms the tenant can decline by leaving.

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Kansas Late fees

Kansas sets no cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period — the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act never mentions late fees, and rent is payable without demand or notice at the time the lease fixes (K.S.A. 58-2545(c)), so a lease-based fee can start accruing the day after rent is due.

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Kansas Entry notice

Kansas requires only 'reasonable notice' before a landlord enters a rental — no statute fixes a number of hours, and entry must happen at reasonable hours of the day (K.S.A. 58-2557).

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How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes site (ksrevisor.gov), each load-bearing section fetched twice by independent methods (WebFetch page read plus raw curl of the same official page, all figures reconciled verbatim): 58-2550 (1-month/1.5-month/half-month pet caps, 14-day and 30-day return clocks, 1.5x penalty), 58-2548 (5-day joint inventory), 58-2557 (reasonable notice/reasonable hours entry), 58-2570 (7-day/30-day/15-day termination notices), 58-2565(b) (30-day absence entry, 10-day abandonment presumption), 58-2564(b) (3-day nonpayment cure), 58-2563 (1.5 months' rent ouster remedy), and 12-16,120 (express local rent-control preemption). Negative checks run against the full Residential Landlord and Tenant Act: all 34 sections (58-2540 through 58-2573) downloaded and searched — no late-fee, grace-period, deposit-interest, escrow/separate-account, or rent-increase-notice provision exists. Pending-bill check 2026-07-11 on kslegislature.gov: 2025-26 biennium adjourned sine die 2026-04-11; HB 2666 (late-fee restrictions), SB 482 (condemned-unit deposit return), and HB 2768 (split rent payments) all died in committee; enacted Sub HB 2357 (eviction expungement) and SB 391 (voucher-mandate preemption) do not affect these four topics.