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Georgia Landlord-Tenant Laws

Verified October 2, 2026 6 statements held

Local rent regulation in Georgia

Georgia law bars every county and city from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance that regulates rent on privately owned residential rental property, while leaving local governments free to set rents on housing they own and to make rent agreements for such properties.

Cited to O.C.G.A. § 44-7-19 (official O.C.G.A. portal) · Verified October 2, 2026 · Full Georgia rent-increase rules →

Georgia landlord-tenant laws by topic

Georgia security deposits

Georgia caps security deposits at two months' rent for leases signed or renewed on or after July 1, 2024, and the landlord must return the deposit — or an exact written statement of deductions plus the balance — within 30 days of getting the unit back.

Georgia rent increase notice

Georgia has no statute that regulates rent increases or sets a rent-increase notice period, and no cap on the size or frequency of an increase.

Georgia late fees

Georgia sets no statutory cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period — the fee is whatever the lease provides, policed only by Georgia's general rule against contractual penalties.

Georgia entry notice

Georgia has no statute setting how much notice a landlord must give before entering a rental unit — no 24-hour rule, no 'reasonable notice' standard, nothing.

Georgia eviction process

Georgia's eviction — a 'dispossessory proceeding' filed most often in magistrate court — starts, for nonpayment under leases signed or renewed since July 1, 2024, with a written notice giving the tenant three business days to pay everything owed or vacate, posted in a sealed envelope on the door.

Georgia application & screening fees

Georgia does not regulate rental application or tenant-screening fees: state law sets no limit on the amount, does not tie the charge to what a report costs, and requires no receipt, no refund, no disclosure before the money is collected, and no denial notice beyond what federal law already requires.

Georgia deposit interest

Georgia does not require landlords to pay tenants interest on a security deposit, and the word "interest" does not appear anywhere in the state's security-deposit article.

Georgia habitability & repairs

Georgia law requires a landlord to keep a rented home in repair, and since July 1, 2024 every residential rental agreement is deemed to include a provision that the premises is fit for human habitation.

Georgia lease termination

Georgia takes 60 days' notice from the landlord and 30 days from the tenant to end a tenancy at will, and the asymmetry is written into the one sentence that is the whole rule.

Georgia lease disclosures

Every Georgia landlord must disclose the owner's or agent's identity in writing and give the statutory flood notice, and a landlord who takes a security deposit must also give a list of existing damage.

Georgia pets & assistance animals

Georgia lets a landlord charge for a pet in two different ways, and which one is used decides everything.

Georgia mobile home park laws

Georgia has no manufactured-home community tenancy act: a resident who owns the home and rents the lot is covered by the state's general landlord and tenant law, O.C.G.A. Title 44, Chapter 7, which sets no ceiling on lot rent, requires no notice before a rent increase, and lets a community owner end a tenancy at will on sixty days' notice without giving a reason.

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Statements held at an earlier date

Georgia publishes its code only on a site whose terms do not allow automated reading, so this page is verified on the acts the legislature publishes and on court and agency sources. The 6 statements below rest on text only the code prints. Each keeps the date it was last verified; every other statement on this page was confirmed on October 2, 2026 ( how held statements work).

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text: O.C.G.A. 44-7-30.1, 44-7-34, 44-7-35, 44-7-36, 44-7-7, and 44-7-19 read in full from the 2024 Code of Georgia (Justia mirror of the official code, which is not deep-linkable on the official legis.ga.gov LexisNexis portal), cross-checked against the official Georgia General Assembly HB 404 (Act 392 of 2024) bill record on legis.ga.gov and the Georgia Appleseed / magistrate-judge bench card summarizing the Safe at Home Act. 44-7-31, 44-7-32, and 44-7-33 mechanics confirmed across the code mirror section listing and multiple consistent secondary sources. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — § 44-7-30.1 and § 44-7-7 through the enrolled acts on gov.georgia.gov and the official reporter text of Alexander v. Steining on static.case.law; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 2026: the deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry answers were read again on the acts the General Assembly publishes on legis.ga.gov (the 2024 Safe at Home Act, HB 404, Act 392; 2018 HB 834 for sections 44-7-33 to 44-7-35; 2006 HB 1273 for section 44-7-31; 2007 SB 94 for section 44-7-30; 2003 SB 105 for section 13-6-15), on the signed acts on gov.georgia.gov, on the Department of Community Affairs' Georgia Landlord-Tenant Handbook (revised August 29, 2024) and on opinions of the Court of Appeals. The code itself was not opened for that reading, and no act since 2001 sets out sections 44-7-19, 44-7-32 or 44-7-36. The statements that rest on text only the code prints are held: each is listed with the date it was last verified. Every other statement on the deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry pages was confirmed on October 2, 2026.