Wyoming Landlord-Tenant Laws
Local rent regulation in Wyoming
No Wyoming statute expressly addresses local rent control — the legislature has neither authorized nor prohibited city or county regulation of rent amounts, and repeated attempts to preempt local rental regulation have failed to pass.
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Wyoming landlord-tenant laws by topic
Wyoming security deposits
Wyoming puts no cap on security deposits, and the landlord must return the balance with a written, reasoned itemization of any deductions within 30 days after the tenancy ends or within 15 days after receiving the tenant's new mailing address, whichever is later — and if the unit was damaged, the deadline stretches by another 30 days.
Wyoming rent increase notice
Wyoming has no statute requiring any advance notice of a rent increase — and unlike most no-notice states, it has no statutory month-to-month termination notice to derive a working rule from either.
Wyoming late fees
Wyoming sets no cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period — no statute anywhere in Wyoming law addresses late charges on residential rent, so a late fee exists only if the rental agreement creates it, bounded by ordinary contract law rather than any statutory test.
Wyoming entry notice
Wyoming has no statute requiring landlords to give advance notice before entering a rental unit — no 24-hour rule, no 'reasonable notice' standard, no emergency exception, and no time-of-day window exists anywhere in Wyoming law.
Wyoming eviction process
To evict a tenant in Wyoming, serve one written notice to quit - a demand that the tenant leave the premises, served at least three days before suit under W.S. 1-21-1003 - then file a forcible entry and detainer action in the circuit court, which has exclusive jurisdiction.
Wyoming application & screening fees
Wyoming does not regulate rental application or tenant-screening fees at all: no cap, no tie to what a report costs, no receipt, no refund, nothing that must be told an applicant before money changes hands, no state denial-notice duty, no reusable-report law, no rule on money taken to hold a home, and no rental fee-advertising law.
Wyoming deposit interest
Wyoming expressly denies tenants interest on security deposits: the statute directs that the balance of a deposit "shall be delivered or mailed without interest" to the renter when the tenancy ends.
Wyoming habitability & repairs
Wyoming requires an owner and the owner's agent to maintain a residential rental unit in a safe and sanitary condition fit for human habitation, and requires every unit to have operational electrical, heating and plumbing with hot and cold running water, common areas kept sanitary and reasonably safe, and any appliances the rental agreement promised.
Wyoming lease termination
No Wyoming statute sets a notice period for ending a periodic tenancy, in either direction.
Wyoming mobile home park laws
Wyoming has no manufactured home community tenancy act, and it is the one state whose general residential statute expressly leaves the lot out.
Wyoming Fair Market Rents (FY 2027) — HUD's benchmark rents for every Wyoming metro area and county.
How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text from the official Wyoming Legislative Service Office statute files (wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title01.pdf, title34.pdf, title15.pdf, title40.pdf — the Title 1 file reflects 2025-session repeals and is current through the 2025 General Session): Title 1 ch. 21 art. 12 (W.S. 1-21-1201 through 1-21-1211) and art. 10 (1-21-1001 through 1-21-1017) read in full, plus W.S. 34-2-126 through 34-2-132. Double-read via a second official endpoint: the LSO NXT infobase ('2021 Titles', wyoleg.gov/NXT/gateway.dll) article views for arts. 12 and 10 — the entire Article 12 text (12,872 normalized characters) is CHARACTER-IDENTICAL between the official 2021 edition and the official 2025 PDF. Deposit figures additionally triple-read against the Wyoming Judicial Branch's TENANT Form 03 instructions (wyocourts.gov, rev. Sept 2024), which reprint W.S. 1-21-1208 verbatim; FED figures corroborated by the Judicial Branch Eviction Handout; FindLaw mirror matched 1-21-1208 and 34-2-128 verbatim. Verified negatives (no deposit cap, no interest or separate-account rule beyond the express 'without interest' clause, no rent-increase or periodic-termination notice statute, no late-fee cap or grace period, no entry-notice statute, no rent-control or preemption provision) run by full-article reads plus keyword sweeps of Titles 1, 15, 34 and 40 — zero occurrences of 'month-to-month', 'late fee', 'late charge' or 'grace period' in Titles 1/15/34. Session sweep on the official LSO bill API (lsoservice.wyoleg.gov): all 891 bills of the 2025 General and 2026 Budget Sessions enumerated by short title, and all 278 enacted chapters (171 of 2025, 107 of 2026) separately enumerated — zero on-topic enactments; dead bills 2025 HB0213 (owner utility duties) and 2026 HB0183 (renter tax relief) both 'Did not Consider for Introduction'. The 2026 Budget Session has adjourned; next regular session January 2027. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — §§ 1-21-1401 through 1-21-1403 in the Title 1 compilation on wyoleg.gov; the earlier reads stand as recorded.