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

Who it is for

Landlords and property managers with rentals in Nevada, 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 Nevada: 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 Nevada data files, checked November 2026 against 7 official pages, among them Nevada Legislature: NRS chapter 118A (118A.242); Nevada Legislature: NRS Chapter 40 (40.251, 40.2512, 40.253); Nevada Supreme Court: Tenant General Instructions to Contest a Summary Eviction, Forms 13-16 (rev. April 14, 2006); Nevada Legislature: NRS Chapter 40, NRS 40.253; Nevada Judicial Branch: How to File a Small Claims Case; Nevada AOC: Small Claims Court, plus National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel (a vetted secondary source, marked in the kit) where no official page could be read.
• 7 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 Nevada notice and deposit dates for you.

What is inside

• Start here. How to use the kit, the 16 confirmed Nevada rules at a glance and a short look-up list of 7 points to check: ending month-to-month (tenant), filing fee, time to answer or appear, hearing after filing, judgment to writ, paying to stop the case, diversion or mediation (statewide), each with the official page.
• Nevada 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: deposit limit: Deposits and surety bonds together no more than three months' periodic rent (118A.242(1)); return deadline: No later than 30 days after the tenancy ends: an itemized written accounting and any remaining deposit, sent to the tenant's present or last known address (118A.242(4)); itemized list of deductions: An itemized, written accounting of the disposition of the deposit or surety bond (118A.242(4)); interest on the deposit: None stated in 118A.242 (2025 revision of NRS chapter 118A); where the deposit is held: None stated in 118A.242: no separate or interest-bearing account is required; penalty the law states: The entire deposit, plus up to the amount of the entire deposit as the court sets (118A.242(6)-(7)); ending month-to-month (landlord): At least 30 days' notice for a month-to-month or other periodic tenancy (7 days week-to-week); rent increase notice: Periodic tenancy: written notice 60 days ahead (30 days for a periodic tenancy shorter than a month); unpaid rent notice: A notice to pay rent or surrender: 7 judicial days for a dwelling; entry notice: At least 24 hours' notice, at reasonable times during normal business hours, except emergencies; late fee limits: No more than 5% of the periodic rent; court: The Justice Court for the township where the rental is; writ to lockout: The sheriff or constable posts the order within 24 hours of receiving it and removes the tenant no earlier than 24 hours and no later than 36 hours after posting (NRS 40.253(5)(a)); who carries out the lockout: A sheriff or constable may lock the tenant out within 24 hours of the order; 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): $10,000: 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 Nevada's return deadline (within 30 days).
• 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 Nevada 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.
• Nevada landlord workbook (Excel). A tenant notice log that dates each notice from the Nevada rules, a deposit tracker that works out the return date for each move-out, and a rent ledger with a running balance.