Louisiana Landlord Compliance Kit: Deposit, Notice and Eviction Checklists with an Excel Tracker

Who it is for

Landlords and property managers with rentals in Louisiana, and tenants who want the same record, from move-in through move-out or a court case.

Not the right fit if

Your rental is outside Louisiana: get that state's kit. Not legal advice, not a lawyer's review of a lease, notice or court case, and not a set of legal notice forms; city and county rules aren't covered.

Why it is different

• Built only from our Louisiana data files, checked November 2026 against 8 official pages, among them Louisiana Legislature: R.S. 9:3252, Failure to comply; Louisiana Legislature: 2026 HB 292 (shows present R.S. 9:3251 text); Louisiana State Legislature: Civil Code Article 2728; Louisiana State Legislature: Resume digest of Act 442 (HB 160), 2022 Regular Session; Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Art. 4732: Trial of rule; judgment of eviction; Louisiana Supreme Court, Uniform Forms Committee: Forms for City and Parish Courts, plus Nolo and National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel (a vetted secondary source, marked in the kit) where no official page could be read.
• 9 items the official pages didn't state are left out of the rules and put on a short look-up list with the page to check, never guessed.
• The workbook recalculates with zero formula errors and works out Louisiana notice and deposit dates for you.

What is inside

• Start here. How to use the kit, the 14 confirmed Louisiana rules at a glance and a short look-up list of 9 points to check: deposit limit, interest on the deposit, where the deposit is held, late fee limits, court, filing fee, writ to lockout, paying to stop the case and more, each with the official page.
• Louisiana landlord rules checklist. Deposits, notice periods, the eviction case and the small claims limit, each confirmed rule with its source link and check date. What it confirms: return deadline: Within one month after the lease ends; an itemized statement of any amount kept and why within one month after the tenancy ends; itemized list of deductions: An itemized statement of the amounts kept and the reasons; penalty the law states: Willful failure: the amount wrongfully kept plus $300 or twice that amount, whichever is greater; ending month-to-month (landlord): Notice at least 10 days before the end of the month for a month-to-month lease (5 days before the period ends for week-to-month leases); ending month-to-month (tenant): Notice at least 10 days before the end of the month for a month-to-month lease (5 days before the period ends for week-to-month leases); rent increase notice: No notice period for a rent increase in Civil Code Article 2728 as read; Nolo's 50-state chart (updated 4/25/2024) says there is no Louisiana statute on the notice required to change rent or other terms; unpaid rent notice: A notice to vacate allows the lessee five days from its delivery to vacate the premises, as existing law quoted in the Legislature's 2022 digest; entry notice: No entry notice period stated: Nolo's 50-state chart (updated 7/18/2025) cites Civil Code art. 2693 and lists 'No notice period specified'; time to answer or appear: The tenant answers or appears at the trial of the rule; judgment of eviction is rendered immediately if the landlord prevails or the tenant doesn't appear; hearing after filing: The rule to show cause can be tried no earlier than the third day after service (the earliest date here assumes service on the filing day); judgment to writ: If the tenant doesn't comply within 24 hours after the judgment of eviction, the court issues the warrant of possession; who carries out the lockout: The sheriff, constable or marshal executes the warrant; right to counsel (statewide): No statewide right to counsel for tenants in eviction cases (as of November 2026, per the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel): its tracker of enacted laws lists no statewide law here; small claims limit (for a deposit dispute): $5,000: the most a small claims case can ask for.
• Move-in and move-out deposit checklist. A room-by-room condition checklist for both visits and the steps after move-out, with Louisiana's return deadline (within one month).
• Notice calendar. When each notice must go out: the lead time for every notice the state's text confirms, with a 2027 month-by-month serve-by table worked out with our notice date calculator's rules.
• Eviction timeline sheet. The Louisiana case in order from notice to lockout, with each confirmed stage, an example dated from a sample filing day where the rules give periods, and blanks for your own case dates.
• Louisiana landlord workbook (Excel). A tenant notice log that dates each notice from the Louisiana rules, a deposit tracker that works out the return date for each move-out, and a rent ledger with a running balance.