New Jersey property management software.
AI-native property management for every US state. Here is the New Jersey 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.
New Jersey landlord-tenant rules Forge tracks
- Security-deposit return
- Within 30 days of move-out (up to 30 if the lease specifies)
- Maximum security deposit
- 1.5 month(s) of rent
- Deposit interest
- Interest owed to tenant (see statute for rate)
- Late-fee cap
- No statutory cap (must still be reasonable and disclosed)
- Late-fee grace period
- 0 days after the due date
- Rent-increase notice (month-to-month)
- 30 days
- Termination notice (month-to-month)
- 30 days
- Notice before landlord entry
- 24 hours
- Pay-or-quit / cure period
- 0 days
- Manager / broker license
- Generally required to manage for others
Extra protected classes: beyond the federal Fair Housing Act, New Jersey also protects source of income, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil union or domestic partnership status, ancestry, nationality, liability for military service. Forge's fair-housing checks account for this.
Required lease disclosures
- Truth in Renting Statement (N.J.S.A. 46:8-45 et seq.)
- Flood-zone disclosure (N.J.S.A. 46:8-50, added 2023)
- Landlord Identity/Registration (N.J.S.A. 46:8-27 to 46:8-37)
- Window-guards notice (3+ unit buildings with a child <=10) (N.J.A.C. 5:10-27.1(c))
AI / algorithmic rules to watch
- NJ Division on Civil Rights disparate-impact regulations under the Law Against Discrimination (effective 2025-12-15) -- Explicitly extends LAD disparate-impact liability to AI/algorithmic tenant-screening tools -- a landlord can be liable for biased outcomes even from a third-party AI vendor. A separate legislative ban (A3497/A3507) was pending, not yet enacted, as of this research.
Sources
- N.J.S.A. 46:8-21.1 (30-day deposit return)
- N.J.S.A. 46:8-19 (deposit capped at 1.5 months rent; annual increase capped at 10% of current deposit); 46:8-19(a)-(c) (interest required annually)
- N.J.S.A. 2A:42-6.1, 2A:42-6.3 (5-business-day late-fee grace, senior/disabled tenants on qualifying benefits only)
- N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1 / 2A:18-61.2 (Anti-Eviction Act: 30-day baseline notice + ground-specific tiers)
- N.J.A.C. 5:10-5.1(c) (24-hour entry notice, 3+ unit buildings, by regulation)
- N.J.S.A. 45:15-1 et seq. (broker license to manage/lease for others)
- N.J.S.A. 10:5-12 (Law Against Discrimination protected classes)
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 New Jersey statutes whether or not our values are correct. Always verify the current statutes and consult a licensed New Jersey attorney before acting on a specific situation.
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