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

Who it is for

Landlords and property managers with rentals in West Virginia, 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 West Virginia: 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 West Virginia data files, checked November 2026 against 8 official pages, among them West Virginia Legislature: Code 37-6A-2; West Virginia Legislature: Code article 37-6A; West Virginia Legislature: W. Va. Code Chapter 37, Article 6 (Landlord and tenant); West Virginia Code, Chapter 55, Article 3A (Wrongful Occupation of Residential Rental Property); W. Va. Code 50-2-1; 2025 HB 2761 enrolled, 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 West Virginia notice and deposit dates for you.

What is inside

• Start here. How to use the kit, the 16 confirmed West Virginia rules at a glance and a short look-up list of 7 points to check: where the deposit is held, unpaid rent notice, filing fee, judgment to writ, writ to lockout, paying to stop the case, diversion or mediation (statewide), each with the official page.
• West Virginia 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 maximum in article 37-6A; return deadline: Within 60 days after the tenancy ends, or 45 days after a new tenant occupies the unit, whichever is shorter, with a written itemization; 15 more days to itemize repair costs when repairs are needed (37-6A-1(7), 37-6A-2); itemized list of deductions: A written itemization of damages and other charges (37-6A-2(a)); interest on the deposit: Not addressed in article 37-6A; penalty the law states: Willful or bad-faith noncompliance: the deposit plus one and one-half times the amount wrongfully withheld (37-6A-5(a)); ending month-to-month (landlord): A periodic tenancy of less than a year ends on notice for one full period before the end of any period; ending month-to-month (tenant): A periodic tenancy of less than a year ends on notice for one full period before the end of any period; rent increase notice: Article 6 sets no rent increase notice; entry notice: Article 6 sets no entry notice; late fee limits: Article 6 sets no late fee limit; court: The magistrate court or the circuit court of the county where the property is; time to answer or appear: A written defense is due within five days of receiving the notice; hearing after filing: The hearing is 5 to 10 judicial days after the petition is filed; who carries out the lockout: The sheriff removes a tenant who stays past the time in the court's 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): $20,000: 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 West Virginia's return deadline (within 60 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 West Virginia 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.
• West Virginia landlord workbook (Excel). A tenant notice log that dates each notice from the West Virginia rules, a deposit tracker that works out the return date for each move-out, and a rent ledger with a running balance.