Statute-cited demand letters · Certified Mail, Return Receipt

Your landlord kept your deposit. A security deposit demand letter gets it back, with a penalty.

Upload your lease or answer eight questions. Read your exact security deposit demand letter before you pay: your state's statute cited, and in 15 states the deposit interest your landlord owes. You sign it. We mail it USPS Certified with Return Receipt, so somebody has to sign for it and you get a copy of that signature.

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How it works

Signed by you. Signed for by them. Three steps.

01 · ANSWER

8 questions, 5 minutes

Or upload your lease and we read the deposit, dates and landlord straight off it, on your phone, without the file ever leaving it.

02 · REVIEW & SIGN

See it, then sign it

Your facts, your state's statute, the missed deadline, the remedies it allows, and each deduction you dispute answered on its own line. Word for word, before you pay. Then you sign it, so it goes out over your name.

03 · WE MAIL IT

USPS Certified, with a signature

Printed and handed to USPS as Certified Mail with Return Receipt, so the person who takes delivery signs for it. Your tracking number lands in your inbox, and the signature follows.

What happens after you pay

The part most services hide

MINUTES LATER

Your signed letter, in your inbox

The signed PDF for your records, plus your private letter tracker: a live timeline from printed to delivered.

NEXT BUSINESS DAY

USPS Certified tracking number

Watch it move. When USPS scans "Delivered," your landlord is formally on notice and we start the 14-day countdown with you.

WHEN IT ARRIVES

The name of whoever signed for it

USPS makes a person sign. We email you the moment they do, and tell you who it was. Your landlord cannot say the letter never came.

WHEN THE WINDOW CLOSES

We watch the clock, you do not have to

The delivery email states the exact date their window closes, and we email you again the day it does. Your tracker also fills up with the official USPS proof of delivery, the signature and the proof of acceptance, as files you can download and keep.

On the last page of your letter

The bit that stops them arguing

Not a logo that says “verified.” A short record of how and when you signed, printed on the letter your landlord is holding, plus a code made from the letter's own words.

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The demand paragraph
The signature record
The SHA-256 hash
Certified Mail with Return Receipt

Pin 1 · The demand paragraphThe paragraph names your state's statute, the amount your landlord kept, the deadline they missed, and gives them a firm deadline to send the money before the letter says what happens next. Every part of it comes from the answers you gave, printed in the order the law expects.

Pin 2 · The signature recordMethod (drawn or typed), date, time zone, IP, browser, and consent to sign electronically. Printed on the letter itself, so the person receiving it can see how it was signed. Nothing goes out until a real person signs.

Pin 3 · The SHA-256 hashA 64-character code built from every word in your letter, recorded with the date and time you signed. It is your signing record: paste it into the checker at /verify/ and it confirms the wording you hold is the wording you signed, unchanged. It is not proof of delivery; the certified mail record below is.

Pin 4 · Certified Mail with Return ReceiptSomeone at the other end has to sign. This is the proof: the certified mail receipt, the USPS tracking history, and the delivery signature with its date. The Postal Service records them, our mail partner passes them to us, and we email them to you and post them on your letter tracker. Your landlord cannot claim the letter never came.

would prefer to resolve this without court involvement, and prompt payment will end the matter. A charge that is easy to justify is easy to justify today. I am giving you the opportunity to do that before either of us spends time on a filing.

Sincerely, Jordan Avery

Signature certificate

Signature method: drawn by the signer on screen. Signed: August 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM CDT Document hash (SHA-256): 4a7f2c91e0b8d35a6c14f9027be3d8815c0a6f4392db77e1a05c8b3e6f19d24c Signed from IP 203.0.113.24 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Consent to sign electronically was recorded at the time of signing. Mailed USPS Certified Mail on 2026-08-31, article no. 9407 3000 0000 0000 0000 00.

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A real letter's last page. The names and codes here are made up; yours carry your own record. The time is shown in the signer's own time zone, not ours.

That code is built from every word in your letter. Change one word and it no longer matches. Type it into our checker and it tells you the letter is the same one you signed. Try it on the example →

That whole chain, for $20Answer eight questions and read the finished letter. Nothing is charged to see it.

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Doing it yourself, honestly compared

You can send this letter yourself, and if you would rather, you should. Here is the real comparison, including the parts that are not money. We have not inflated the left column.

What it takes	Wait and hope	On your own	Hire a lawyer	Through us
Finding the right statute, current text, and the conditions attached to it	Never happens	An evening, and the risk of citing a repealed section	They know it	Done. Checked against the official source, linked on your state page
Working out the deadline and what the penalty actually is	The deadline passes quietly	Yours to calculate	Yes	Calculated from your move-out date and stated in the letter
Drafting it so it reads like a legal demand, not a complaint	Nothing is written	A blank page	Yes, and well	Written, and you read every word before paying
Certified Mail with Return Receipt	Nothing is sent	$9.28 at the counter with the electronic receipt, $11.02 with the green card	Billed to you	Included. We pay commercial rates, not the retail window price
Paper, envelope, ink, printer that works today	Not applicable	A few dollars, if the printer cooperates	Theirs	Included
Filling in the green card and the certified form correctly	Not applicable	By hand, and a wrong box means no proof	Their staff	Not your problem
The trip to the Post Office and the line	Not applicable	Gas, parking, and most of a lunch break	Their staff go	You never go. It is printed and handed to USPS for you
Proof you can hand a judge	None	Whatever you remembered to keep	Yes, and they can testify to it	Signed PDF and signature certificate immediately; USPS tracking once it ships; the official proof-of-delivery, signature and acceptance documents once USPS produces them
Proving the letter was not edited after signing	Nothing to prove	No way to show it	Their file copy	A published fingerprint anyone can check at our verifier
Knowing the day their window closes	It passes	A note in your calendar, if you set one	They track it	We work it out from your move-out date and email you before the day, on it, and after
Spotting a wrong date, name or unit number just after sending	Not applicable	Reprint, buy postage again, drive back	They redo it and bill you	You get a 15-minute window before it prints. Change it yourself and we rebuild the letter free. After it mails, certified mail cannot be recalled for anyone
How soon it is in the mail	Never	Whenever you get to it	Days to weeks	The same business day, when you sign before 11am Eastern
Cash cost	Your deposit	$10 to $13, plus your afternoon	Hourly, often more than the deposit	$20 flat. Nothing else, ever

The honest bit: doing it yourself is still cheaper in cash, by about $9. It is not cheaper in time, and it leaves you holding a letter you cannot prove you sent. You would hand USPS $10 to $13 of that anyway. And if your claim is large, genuinely disputed, or your landlord already has a lawyer, hire one: that column is not there for decoration. For an ordinary withheld deposit, the question is whether the last $9 is worth an afternoon, a trip to the Post Office, and the risk of quoting a statute that was amended.

Postage figures are USPS retail rates effective July 12, 2026: $0.82 first-class letter, $5.55 Certified Mail, plus $2.91 electronic or $4.65 hard-copy Return Receipt. They change when USPS changes them, and this page changes with them.

~$8.60

of your $20 is printing, certified postage and the return receipt, at commercial rates

~$0.88

card processing, which Stripe takes, not us

Rest

statute upkeep, delivery tracking, deadline monitoring, and our margin, stated plainly

subscriptions, upsells you didn't ask for, or "processing fees" at checkout

Where your $20 goes, because a company asking for trust should show its math.

$9 more than the Post OfficeAnd you never go, never buy a stamp, and never wonder whether it arrived.

Build my letter free and read it

Why a statute-cited letter works

Landlords do the math.

Every state gives landlords a fixed window to return your deposit or itemize deductions, and most attach real penalties for blowing it: double or triple damages, and in many states your attorney's fees on top. A letter that names the statute, the missed deadline, and the exact dollar exposure reads very differently from an angry text.

Every citation is a real statute, verified against the primary source and linked on your state's page
Certified mail creates the delivery record a small claims judge wants to see
You see the complete letter before paying. No surprises, no subscription
Deadline tracking after delivery: we watch the response window with you

The honest numbers

No fake reviews. Real statutes.

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jurisdictions let tenants pursue multiplied damages for wrongful withholding

states can make the landlord pay your attorney's fees on top

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statutes source-checked against the official text, linked on every state page

states make landlords pay interest on your deposit. Your letter demands it

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DEDUCTION CHECKER

Your landlord has had it long enough.

Eight questions, about five minutes. You read every word of the finished letter before you decide, and $20 covers the printing, the certified postage and the return receipt. There is no second charge.

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Writing it costs nothing. $20 covers printing, certified postage and the return receipt.