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

Who it is for

Landlords and property managers with rentals in North Dakota, 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 North Dakota: 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 North Dakota data files, checked November 2026 against 4 official pages, among them North Dakota Legislative Branch: Century Code chapter 47-16; North Dakota Court System: Eviction for Tenants, Informational Guide (Rev. Dec 2025); ND Courts: Small Claims Court Forms Packet (rev. 07/2025); N.D. Rules of Court, Rule 3.5 Electronic Filing in District Courts (self-represented litigants who wish to file electronically must use the Odyssey system), plus National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel (a vetted secondary source, marked in the kit) where no official page could be read.
• 5 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 North Dakota notice and deposit dates for you.

What is inside

• Start here. How to use the kit, the 18 confirmed North Dakota rules at a glance and a short look-up list of 5 points to check: unpaid rent notice, filing fee, judgment to writ, paying to stop the case, diversion or mediation (statewide), each with the official page.
• North Dakota 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: No more than one month's rent; up to two months for a tenant with certain felony convictions or a prior rental-agreement judgment; return deadline: Within 30 days after the lease ends and the tenant delivers possession: the deposit and interest, with any withholding itemized (47-16-07.1(3)); itemized list of deductions: An itemization of amounts withheld, delivered or mailed to the tenant's last address (47-16-07.1(3)); interest on the deposit: Interest accrued in the account goes to the tenant, except when occupancy was less than nine months (47-16-07.1(1)); where the deposit is held: In a federally insured interest-bearing savings or checking account for the benefit of the tenant (47-16-07.1(1)); penalty the law states: Treble damages for deposit money withheld without reasonable justification (47-16-07.1(4)); ending month-to-month (landlord): At least one calendar month's written notice at any time, unless the parties agreed in writing to another period; ending month-to-month (tenant): At least one calendar month's written notice at any time, unless the parties agreed in writing to another period; rent increase notice: Month-to-month: written notice of changed terms at least 30 days before the month ends, taking effect when the month ends; the tenant may then end the lease at month's end with 25 days' notice; entry notice: Reasonable hours and manner; the landlord first notifies and gets the tenant's consent unless impractical (consent not unreasonably withheld); late fee limits: Chapter 47-16 contains no late fee limit; court: A North Dakota state district court; time to answer or appear: The tenant must appear at the hearing and answer the complaint; hearing after filing: The hearing is set 3 to 15 days after the summons issues; writ to lockout: Eviction can happen the day of the hearing; on a showing of hardship the judge may allow up to five days to move; who carries out the lockout: Only the sheriff or the sheriff's staff can evict.
• Move-in and move-out deposit checklist. A room-by-room condition checklist for both visits and the steps after move-out, with North Dakota'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 North Dakota 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.
• North Dakota landlord workbook (Excel). A tenant notice log that dates each notice from the North Dakota rules, a deposit tracker that works out the return date for each move-out, and a rent ledger with a running balance.