West Virginia property management software.
AI-native property management for every US state. Here is the West Virginia 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.
West Virginia landlord-tenant rules Forge tracks
- Security-deposit return
- Within 60 days of move-out (up to 75 if the lease specifies)
- Late-fee cap
- No statutory cap (must still be reasonable and disclosed)
- Termination notice (month-to-month)
- 30 days
- 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, West Virginia also protects ancestry, blindness. Forge's fair-housing checks account for this.
Required lease disclosures
- Pet/application fee is only non-refundable if landlord and tenant expressly agree in writing -- otherwise treated as part of the refundable deposit (37-6A-1(14))
- Former clandestine meth-lab disclosure -- voids the lease at the tenant's election unless certified remediated (60A-11-5)
Sources
- W. Va. Code 37-6A-1(7), 37-6A-2(a) (deposit return: 60 days, OR 45 days after a new tenant occupies, whichever is SHORTER)
- W. Va. Code 37-6A-2(c) (75-day outer bound -- the extra 15 days applies specifically when 3rd-party-contractor repair costs exceed the deposit and timely notice of that fact is given, a narrow trigger, not a general itemization extension)
- W. Va. Code Article 6A (no statutory deposit cap anywhere in the article, confirmed by full-text review -- a commonly-seen "2 months" figure online is market practice, not law)
- W. Va. Code 37-6-5 ("one full rental period" termination notice for periodic tenancies under a year -- runs rent-due-date to rent-due-date, not always exactly 30 calendar days; 3 months for year-to-year tenancies)
- No dedicated rent-increase statute exists; legal-aid practice treats a rent change as requiring the same notice as termination, but that figure is itself period-based, not a literal fixed day-count
- 55-3A-1 (verified-petition eviction filing, no statutory pre-filing notice); 37-6-23 (post-filing "pay and dismiss" cure right, waivable by lease clause)
- W. Va. Code 30-40-4 / 30-40-5(c)(8) (broker license; narrow single-owner in-house employee exemption)
- W. Va. Code 16B-18-5 (protected classes, recodified 2024 by SB300 from Chapter 5 Art. 11/11A -- use Chapter 16B for current citations)
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 West Virginia statutes whether or not our values are correct. Always verify the current statutes and consult a licensed West Virginia attorney before acting on a specific situation.
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