South Dakota property management software.
AI-native property management for every US state. Here is the South Dakota 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 Dakota landlord-tenant rules Forge tracks
- Security-deposit return
- Within 21 days of move-out (up to 45 if the lease specifies)
- Maximum security deposit
- 1 month(s) of rent
- 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
- 0 days
- Manager / broker license
- Generally required to manage for others
Extra protected classes: beyond the federal Fair Housing Act, South Dakota also protects creed, ancestry. Forge's fair-housing checks account for this.
Required lease disclosures
- Prior methamphetamine-manufacturing disclosure, known contamination (43-32-30)
Sources
- SDCL 43-32-24, as amended by 2026 SB4 (deposit return: 21 days, eff. 7/1/2026 -- raised from a prior 14-day rule)
- SDCL 43-32-24 (45-day deadline for itemized accounting ONLY on the tenant's request -- a separate obligation, not an extended remittance deadline)
- SDCL 43-32-6.1 (deposit capped at 1 month rent, with a written-agreement exception for special-risk premises that is uncapped)
- SDCL 43-32-13 (30-day rent-increase notice, written, confirmed flat)
- SDCL 43-32-15 (general periodic-lease termination rule: 30 days) vs. SDCL 43-8-8 (as amended by 2024 SB89, "tenancy at will": 15 days, 2 months if the tenant has active-military-service ties) -- an UNRESOLVED conflict, see notes
- SDCL 43-32-32 (24-hour written entry notice, business-hours window)
- 2024 SB90 repealed SDCL 21-16-2 (the old 3-day pre-suit notice), eff. 7/1/2024; SDCL 21-16-1(4) (FED action maintainable once rent is 3 days late, landlord may file directly); SDCL 21-16-7 (tenant's first notice is the Summons and Complaint, 5-day response window)
- SDCL 36-21A-47 / 36-21A-29 (restricted "property manager" broker's license; owner and on-site-custodian exemptions)
- SDCL 20-13-20 (protected classes; owner-occupied <=2-unit "Mrs. Murphy" exemption from several subdivisions)
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 Dakota statutes whether or not our values are correct. Always verify the current statutes and consult a licensed South Dakota attorney before acting on a specific situation.
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