Nevada Landlord-Tenant Laws
Local rent regulation in Nevada
No Nevada statute expressly addresses local rent control — state law neither authorizes nor prohibits cities or counties from regulating residential rents, and no Nevada locality has enacted rent control.
Verified August 12, 2026 · Full Nevada rent-increase rules →
Nevada landlord-tenant laws by topic
Nevada security deposits
Nevada caps everything held as security — the security deposit, any surety bond, and prepaid last month's rent combined — at three months' periodic rent, and the landlord must return the balance with an itemized written accounting no later than 30 days after the tenancy ends.
Nevada rent increase notice
Nevada landlords cannot increase rent unless they serve the tenant with written notice at least 60 days before the first increased rental payment — or 30 days for periodic tenancies shorter than one month, such as week-to-week.
Nevada late fees
Nevada caps residential late fees at 5 percent of the periodic rent, and in any tenancy longer than week-to-week no late fee may be imposed until at least 3 calendar days after rent is due.
Nevada entry notice
Nevada landlords must give tenants at least 24 hours' notice before entering a rental and may enter only at reasonable times during normal business hours — unless the tenant expressly agrees to shorter notice or an off-hours visit for that particular entry, or there is an emergency, when no notice or consent is needed.
Nevada eviction process
To evict a Nevada tenant for unpaid rent, serve a written notice giving seven judicial days to pay or move out, then - if the tenant neither pays nor files an affidavit contesting it with the justice court named in the notice - file an affidavit of complaint for summary eviction, and the court can order removal without ever holding a hearing.
Nevada application & screening fees
Nevada regulates two things about application money and leaves the rest to the market: since October 1, 2025 a landlord must refund any fee charged to apply, including a credit-report or background-check fee, when the home goes to a different applicant and the landlord never did the work the fee paid for, and no such fee may be charged for a minor in the applicant's household.
Nevada deposit interest
Nevada requires no interest on a residential security deposit, and no Nevada statute addresses the question either way.
Nevada habitability & repairs
Nevada requires a landlord to maintain the dwelling unit in a habitable condition at all times during the tenancy, and a unit is not habitable if it violates housing or health codes bearing on health, safety, sanitation, or fitness for habitation, or if it substantially lacks any of nine listed essentials from weatherproofing and plumbing to heating facilities and working electrical systems.
Nevada lease termination
A Nevada landlord ends a periodic tenancy on 30 days' written notice, or seven days for a tenancy from week to week, and needs no reason for it.
Nevada mobile home park laws
Nevada's manufactured home park act, NRS chapter 118B, governs the tenancy of a resident who owns the home and rents the lot beneath it in a park of two or more lots, and its three headline rules are a 90-day written notice before any lot-rent increase, termination only on the grounds the act lists, and at least 180 days' notice before a park may close or change use.
Nevada Fair Market Rents (FY 2027) — HUD's benchmark rents for every Nevada metro area and county.
Changes since last full verification
The Verified date above (July 10, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official state sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).
- Correction, August 5, 2026 — Corrected Nevada's description of the 2025 legislative session: AB 121 amended only NRS 118A.200 and added the new payment-method (NRS 118A.303) and application-fee (NRS 118A.306) sections, while SB 114 added the new key-control section NRS 118A.332 rather than amending NRS 118A.335. Confirmed no 2025 enactment touches any Nevada eviction statute.
How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Nevada Legislature site (leg.state.nv.us NRS-118A.html, Rev. 4/15/2026, codified through the 2025 session): NRS 118A.242, 118A.240, 118A.300, 118A.210 and 118A.330 each read on the official page and independently re-read on the codes.findlaw.com mirror (current through 1/1/2025); every key number matched verbatim across both reads. Session laws read in full from official archive PDFs: enrolled AB 308 (2021) confirming the 45-to-60-day and 15-to-30-day rent-notice change (Sec. 7, eff. 7/1/2021) and the 3-calendar-day late-fee grace period (Sec. 2); enrolled AB 121 (2025, all-in rent pricing, eff. 10/1/2025, confirmed codified); enrolled AB 223 (2025) read and confirmed VETOED (its changes absent from the official codified text). 2025 regular-session and 36th Special Session outcomes checked 2026-07-10; Nevada's biennial legislature has no 2026 regular session. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — NRS 118A.200 and 118A.349 on leg.state.nv.us; the earlier reads stand as recorded.