Louisiana property management software.
AI-native property management for every US state. Here is the Louisiana 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.
Louisiana landlord-tenant rules Forge tracks
- Security-deposit return
- Within 30 days of move-out
- Late-fee cap
- No statutory cap (must still be reasonable and disclosed)
- Rent-increase notice (month-to-month)
- 10 days
- Termination notice (month-to-month)
- 10 days
- 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, Louisiana also protects military status, natural or protective or cultural hairstyle. Forge's fair-housing checks account for this.
Required lease disclosures
- Sex-offender-registry-database notice, required in written leases EXECUTED BY A LICENSEE, since 1/1/2002 (R.S. 37:1469) -- narrow scope, does not apply to all leases
Sources
- La. R.S. 9:3251(A) (deposit return: "one month," calendar-month based rather than a literal 30-day count; same deadline covers both return and itemized statement)
- La. R.S. 9:3251(A) (no statutory deposit cap; penalty for willful noncompliance is $300 or 2x the wrongfully-retained amount, whichever is greater)
- La. Civ. Code arts. 2724, 2727, 2728 (no distinct rent-increase statute -- a rent change works via terminate-and-reoffer, functionally governed by the same termination-notice tiers)
- La. Civ. Code art. 2728 (termination notice tiered by RENTAL-PERIOD TYPE: >1 month = 30 days, month-to-month = 10 days, >=1 week/<1 month = 5 days, <1 week = any time prior to expiration); art. 2729 (written notice required for immovables/residences)
- La. Civ. Code arts. 2682-2683 (general "peaceable possession" duty -- no codified entry-notice-hours figure)
- La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4701 (5-calendar-day notice to vacate before nonpayment eviction filing; waivable in advance by written lease clause)
- La. R.S. 37:1436 / 37:1431 / 37:1438 (broker license; owner, attorney, and narrow broker-supervised-employee exemptions)
- La. R.S. 51:2606 (Louisiana Equal Housing Opportunity Act; military status added by 2025 Act 100, hairstyle added by 2022 Act 529 CROWN Act)
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 Louisiana statutes whether or not our values are correct. Always verify the current statutes and consult a licensed Louisiana attorney before acting on a specific situation.
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