South Carolina property management software.
AI-native property management for every US state. Here is the South Carolina 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.
South Carolina landlord-tenant rules Forge tracks
- Security-deposit return
- Within 30 days of move-out (up to 30 if the lease specifies)
- Late-fee cap
- No statutory cap (must still be reasonable and disclosed)
- 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
- 5 days
- Manager / broker license
- Generally required to manage for others
Required lease disclosures
- Owner/agent identity, written, at/before tenancy start (27-40-420(a))
- Smoke-detector testing/battery-replacement instructions, given at time tenant takes possession (S.C. Code Ann. 5-25-1330(A), outside the Landlord-Tenant Act itself)
Sources
- S.C. Code Ann. 27-40-410(a) (30-day deposit return, latest of termination/possession/tenant demand)
- S.C. Code Ann. 27-40-770(a)-(b) (30-day M2M termination, 7-day week-to-week; derived basis for rent-increase notice too)
- S.C. Code Ann. 27-40-530(b)-(c) (24-hour entry notice; 9am-6pm periodic-service window, 8am-8pm tenant-requested-service window)
- S.C. Code Ann. 27-40-710(B) (5-day pay-or-quit; embeddable as lease boilerplate to satisfy the notice requirement once)
- S.C. Code Ann. 40-57-20 / 40-57-510 / 40-57-240 / 40-57-520 (broker license, broker-in-charge structure, exemptions, limited unlicensed on-site tasks)
- S.C. Code Ann. 31-21-40 / 31-21-30 (protected classes -- tracks federal core categories, no state additions)
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 South Carolina statutes whether or not our values are correct. Always verify the current statutes and consult a licensed South Carolina attorney before acting on a specific situation.
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