North Carolina Landlord-Tenant Laws
North Carolina Security deposits
North Carolina caps security deposits at two months' rent for leases longer than month-to-month (one and a half months for month-to-month, two weeks for week-to-week), and the landlord must return the deposit with a written itemization within 30 days of the tenancy ending and the unit being surrendered.
North Carolina Rent increase notice
North Carolina has no statute directly regulating rent increases or requiring rent-increase notice; the practical floor is G.S. 42-14's termination notice, which for a month-to-month tenancy is just seven days — among the shortest in the country — so a landlord can effectively impose a new rent on seven days' notice by making it the price of continuing the tenancy.
North Carolina Late fees
North Carolina caps residential late fees at the greater of $15 or 5% of the monthly rent (for weekly rentals, the greater of $4 or 5% of weekly rent), and no fee may be charged unless the payment is five or more days late — a statutory grace period.
North Carolina Entry notice
North Carolina has no statute requiring any particular advance notice before a landlord enters a rental unit — no fixed hours and no codified 'reasonable notice' standard.
How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official North Carolina General Assembly site (ncleg.gov / ncleg.net): Tenant Security Deposit Act Article 6 (G.S. 42-50 through 42-56) full article text, G.S. 42-46 (full current text including the SL 2025-52 rewrite of subsection (i)), G.S. 42-14, and G.S. 42-14.1 (operative sentence confirmed in the official Article 1 text). H990 (2025) status verified via LegiScan against the ncleg bill record.