Hawaii property management software.
AI-native property management for every US state. Here is the Hawaii compliance profile included with Forge -- every value cited to its statute.
Included -- every value cited to its statute.
Each value below is drawn directly from the cited statute and maintained to the best of our ability; it has not been reviewed by an attorney. Fields we could not source are left out rather than guessed. You remain responsible for complying with the current statutes -- verify before you rely on any value here.
Hawaii landlord-tenant rules Forge tracks
- Security-deposit return
- Within 14 days of move-out (up to 14 if the lease specifies)
- Maximum security deposit
- 1 month(s) of rent
- Late-fee cap
- Up to 8% of past-due rent
- Rent-increase notice (month-to-month)
- 45 days
- Termination notice (month-to-month)
- 45 days
- Notice before landlord entry
- 48 hours
- Pay-or-quit / cure period
- 5 days
- Manager / broker license
- Generally required to manage for others
Extra protected classes: beyond the federal Fair Housing Act, Hawaii also protects sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, ancestry, age, hiv infection status, source of income. Forge's fair-housing checks account for this.
Required lease disclosures
- Landlord/manager identity and address for service (HRS 521-43(a))
- Signed move-in condition inventory -- skipping it means move-out condition is presumed equal to move-in (HRS 521-42(a))
- Written lease copy furnished to tenant (HRS 521-43(d))
- Landlord's GET (general excise tax) number, for the tenant's low-income tax credit filing (HRS 521-43(h))
Sources
- HRS 521-44 (14-day deposit return; capped at 1 month + 1 additional month for a non-service-animal pet deposit)
- HRS 521-21(f) (late fee capped at 8% of rent due); 521-21(d)-(e) (45-day M2M rent-increase notice, 15-day for shorter tenancies)
- HRS 521-71(a)-(c) (termination notice: landlord 45 days, tenant 28 days, 120 days for demolition/conversion)
- HRS 521-53(b) (2-day entry notice)
- HRS 521-68(a) (5-business-day pay-or-quit, Act 57 of 2021)
- HRS 467-1 / 467-2 (broker license; owner and resident-custodian exemptions)
- HRS 515-3(a), 515-16 (protected classes); HRS Ch. 368F (Act 310, source of income, eff. 5/1/2023)
Last reviewed: 2026-07-09
Software assistance, not legal advice.
Forge helps you track deadlines and generate documents, but it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Any statutory values shown are assistive guidance we maintain to the best of our ability; you remain responsible for complying with the current Hawaii statutes whether or not our values are correct. Always verify the current statutes and consult a licensed Hawaii attorney before acting on a specific situation.
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