Vermont property management software.
AI-native property management for every US state. Here is the Vermont 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.
Vermont landlord-tenant rules Forge tracks
- Security-deposit return
- Within 14 days of move-out (up to 14 if the lease specifies)
- Late-fee cap
- No statutory cap (must still be reasonable and disclosed)
- Rent-increase notice (month-to-month)
- 60 days
- Termination notice (month-to-month)
- 30 days
- Notice before landlord entry
- 48 hours
- Pay-or-quit / cure period
- 14 days
- Manager / broker license
- Not generally required by statute
Extra protected classes: beyond the federal Fair Housing Act, Vermont also protects sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, recipient of public assistance, victim of abuse or assault or stalking. Forge's fair-housing checks account for this.
Required lease disclosures
- Dept.-approved lead-based-paint materials plus the owner's most recent RRPM compliance statement, pre-lease, for pre-1978 rental target housing (18 V.S.A. 1759(d)(1),(a)-(c))
- Flood-hazard disclosure using the state model form if in a FEMA special flood hazard area (9 V.S.A. 4466)
- Security-deposit itemization at move-out (9 V.S.A. 4461(c)-(d))
Sources
- 9 V.S.A. 4461(c) (14-day deposit return from discovery of vacancy/notified vacate date, itemized statement due together)
- 9 V.S.A. 4461 / 4461(g) (no statewide deposit cap; municipal deposit-interest ordinances only permissively authorized, not required)
- 9 V.S.A. 4455(b) (60-day rent-increase notice)
- 9 V.S.A. 4467(c),(e) (termination notice tiered by written/oral agreement, tenancy length, and rent frequency)
- 9 V.S.A. 4460(a)-(c) (48-hour entry notice, 9am-9pm)
- 9 V.S.A. 4467(a) (14-day pay-or-quit notice; cure right can extend effective timeline)
- 26 V.S.A. 2211(a)(3),(b)(1),(b)(8) (leasing/PM excluded from the broker-license definition)
- 9 V.S.A. 4503(a)(1)-(12) (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 Vermont statutes whether or not our values are correct. Always verify the current statutes and consult a licensed Vermont attorney before acting on a specific situation.
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