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(4) The lessor shall, within thirty days after the termination of occupancy under a tenancy-at-will or the end of the tenancy as specified in a valid written lease agreement, return to the tenant the security deposit or any...
(b) there has been compliance with this clause by the successor in interest; or (c) the security deposit has been returned to the tenant.
...security deposit together with any interest which has accrued thereon for the benefit of the tenant who made such security deposit to his successor in interest, and said successor in interest shall be liable for the retention and return of...
...Failure to comply with this paragraph shall entitle the tenant to immediate return of the security deposit.
(i) a detailed description of any damage done to each of the dwelling units or premises for which a security deposit has been accepted, returned to any tenant thereof or for which the lessor has brought suit against any tenant;
(e) fails to return to the tenant the security deposit or balance thereof to which the tenant is entitled after deducting therefrom any sums in accordance with the provisions of this section, together with any interest thereon, within thirty days...
...available for inspection by a tenant or prospective tenant, said tenant or prospective tenant shall be entitled to the immediate return of any amount paid in the form of a security deposit together with any interest which has accrued thereon.
...this list, within the specified time period, a court may later view your failure to return the list as your agreement that the list is complete and correct in any suit which you may bring to recover the security deposit.''
...If the tenant does not pay the bill, the landlord may deduct the amount of the bill from any security deposit paid by the tenant in accordance with section 15B of chapter 186, prior to returning the balance of the...
...court orders, payable to the plaintiff, with sufficient surety or sureties approved by the court, or secured by cash or its equivalent deposited with the clerk, in a reasonable amount to be fixed by the court. In an appeal from...
security deposit as compensation for their own breach of the lease, a landlord's failure to return the security deposit
disallowed treble damages unless the landlord failed to return the deposit after the tenant demanded its return, "is inapplicable to a landlord's failure to return the tenant's security deposit within the specified thirty days. The
landlord must return the security deposit, as was done here, prior to the tenant's resort to litigation. The security deposit law was designed to afford "a wronged
c. 93A. The $4,300 security deposit together with interest at twelve percent was returned to the tenants prior to the commencement of litigation. The security deposit also was
...Since Young failed to place the security deposit in a separate account within thirty days after receiving it, he was obliged to return the deposit on demand. See § 15B (3) (a) & 6 (a). Patukonis made the demand for the return...
Karaas did return the security deposit four days prior to the
landlord returned a portion of a security deposit back to the
(6)(e) provides that a lessor forfeits his right to the security deposit if he "fails to return to the tenant the security
...the amount and account number of said deposit. Failure to comply with this paragraph [i.e., par. (a)] shall entitle the tenant to immediate return of the security deposit.” Subsection (3) (a) thus imposes two duties on the landlord: first...
return of the portion to which he or she is entitled at the end of the tenancy. Our cases involving the security deposit statute