Deposit Record is a free web tool for small landlords. Enter the vacate date and your deductions, and it computes the state return deadline, shows what the statute actually says about every rule it applies, and generates an itemized, editable return letter with citations. Texas, California, and Florida are live. General information, not legal advice.
What it does
Deposit Record walks a deposit return from vacate date to a finished letter, citing the statute at every step. Texas security deposit rules (30-day deadline), California security deposit rules (21-day deadline), and Florida security deposit rules (15-day return or 30-day claim notice) are live, with more states on the way.
Enter the vacate date and Deposit Record computes the state return deadline, with the statute section it comes from cited next to the date. Texas allows 30 days under Property Code chapter 92; California allows 21 days under Civil Code section 1950.5. Florida branches under section 83.49 of the Florida Statutes: a 15-day full return, or a notice of intention to impose a claim within 30 days after the tenancy ends when the landlord keeps any of it.
What can and cannot be deducted, and where normal wear and tear ends and damage begins. Every rule is quoted verbatim from the statute, with its citation and the date it was last verified against the source.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Berkeley require interest on deposits their ordinances cover. Deposit Record computes it from each city's published rent-board rate tables, verified against the cities' own published figures.
The tool assembles an itemized return letter from the user's own facts, citations included, editable in the browser before printing. In Florida it generates both documents in sequence: the required notice of intention to impose a claim when any amount is kept, then a return letter for the balance. Each live state also ships a return letter guide and a normal wear-and-tear guide.
Built like it matters
Every rule in Deposit Record traces to the primary statute and carries its citation and a last-verified date. The rules were checked against the statute text by independent adversarial review, and the rendered legal text is pinned byte for byte by snapshot tests, so it cannot drift silently. Where a legal duty is verified but a current figure is not, the tool states the duty and shows a blank rather than guessing a number. It is the same discipline Orygn applies to security tooling, applied to a domain where the reference implementation is a statute.
Privacy
Nothing typed into Deposit Record is transmitted, stored, or sold. The math and the letter are generated client-side, on the user's own device. There are no accounts, no ads, and no paid tier.
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Built by Orygn
Orygn builds custom software, security tooling, and systems where correctness carries real consequences. Deposit Record demonstrates that on a consumer surface: a domain where the accuracy bar is a statute, not a style guide.
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