Nebraska Landlord-Tenant Laws
Local rent regulation in Nebraska
Nebraska law bars cities, villages, and counties from enacting or enforcing rent-control ordinances on private property, with exceptions for affordable-housing land-use or inclusionary requirements and voluntary owner-participation programs.
Cited to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-331 , Laws 2025, LB 266, § 1 (official slip law) · Verified August 12, 2026 · Full Nebraska rent-increase rules →
Nebraska Security deposits
Nebraska caps security deposits at one month's rent, plus a pet deposit of up to one-quarter of a month's rent, and the landlord must return the balance with a written itemization within 14 days after the tenancy ends.
Nebraska Rent increase notice
Nebraska has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 30-day convention for month-to-month tenancies is derived from Neb. Rev. Stat. 76-1437(2), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy by written notice given at least 30 days before the periodic rental date (7 days before the termination date for week-to-week), so a landlord proposing higher rent is offering new terms the tenant can decline by leaving.
Nebraska Late fees
Nebraska sets no cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period — the state's landlord-tenant act never mentions late fees at all, and rent is 'payable without demand or notice at the time and place agreed upon by the parties' (Neb. Rev. Stat. 76-1414(3)), so a lease-based fee can begin the day after rent is due.
Nebraska Entry notice
Nebraska landlords must give tenants at least 24 hours' written notice before entering a rental unit, and the notice must be delivered to each individual unit, state the purpose of the entry, and give a reasonable window of time when the landlord expects to enter — content requirements added by LB 320 in 2021 that older guides miss.
Nebraska Eviction process
To evict a tenant in Nebraska, serve a written 7-calendar-day pay-or-quit notice for unpaid rent, or a notice giving 14 days to cure and setting a termination date at least 30 days out for a lease violation, then file a complaint for restitution in county or district court, where trial is held 10 to 14 days after the summons issues and a writ of restitution puts the sheriff or constable in charge of the lockout within 10 days.
Nebraska Application fees
Nebraska sets no statewide limit on residential rental application or tenant screening fees, and no state law requires a receipt, a refund, a pre-payment disclosure, or a written denial notice at the application stage.
Nebraska mobile home park laws
Nebraska's Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act, sections 76-1450 to 76-14,111, governs the rental of a mobile home space to a resident who owns the home, and its headline rules are sixty days' written notice before lot rent goes up, sixty days' notice before the park rules change, and a protected right to sell the home in place at a price the resident chooses, with the landlord able to approve or disapprove the buyer within ten days and required to put any disapproval in writing.
Lot-rent, closure, park-sale and home-sale rules with statute citations →
Nebraska Fair Market Rents (FY 2026) — HUD's benchmark rents for every Nebraska metro area and county.
Changes since last full verification
The Verified date above (July 11, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official state sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).
- Correction, August 5, 2026 — Corrected the description of the statutory range checked for Nebraska's late-fee and deposit-interest findings: the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act runs 76-1401 through 76-1449, and sections 76-1450 through 76-14,111 are the separate Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act. The findings themselves are unchanged — no late-fee cap, no grace period, and no deposit-interest requirement in the act.
How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Nebraska Legislature site (nebraskalegislature.gov): sections 76-1416, 76-1423, 76-1437, and 13-331 each read twice independently (standard and print views) with all key figures matching verbatim (one-month deposit cap, one-quarter-month pet deposit, 14-day return keyed to the date of termination of the tenancy, lesser-of one month's rent/2x deposit penalty, 24 hours' written entry notice with purpose and anticipated-window content requirements, 30-day/7-day periodic termination notice, rent-control preemption text), and each additionally reconciled character-for-character against the official enacted slip laws downloaded from nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs: LB 433 (2019) and LB 532 (2021) for 76-1416, LB 320 (2021) for 76-1423, LB 266 (2025) for 13-331 — so every amendment claim is pinned from the session law itself. Also read: 76-1408 (exclusions), 76-1414 (rent terms), 76-1432(2) (absence entry), 76-1410(13) (rent definition), 76-1412 (unconscionability), 76-1431(2) (7-day pay-or-quit). FindLaw mirror (current through 2024) matched 76-1423 verbatim. Negative checks (no late-fee or grace-period provision, no deposit interest, no escrow/trust account, no rent-increase notice or frequency rule) run twice against the full act text via the legislature's consolidated display, 76-1401 through 76-1449 — the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act's full span per its own citation section, with 76-1450 through 76-14,111 being the separate Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act (boundary re-verified from the official citation sections 2026-08-05). Pending-bill check 2026-07-11 on official bill pages: LB 17 (fee limits, late-fee cap) indefinitely postponed 2026-04-17; LB 587 (tenant remedies) indefinitely postponed 2026-04-17; LB 980 and LB 469 (2026 eviction-procedure bills) CONFIRMED DEAD 2026-07-12 via the site's own bill-number search: both show 'Indefinitely postponed' 2026-04-17 on their official bill pages (LB 980: URLTA jury-trial-waiver/summary-judgment procedure, died in Judiciary with FA636 pending; LB 469: eviction-notice resource form, 2025 carryover, died in Judiciary); 109th Legislature 2nd session adjourned sine die 2026-04-17.