Oklahoma Landlord-Tenant Laws
Local rent regulation in Oklahoma
Oklahoma law bars city governments from regulating the rent charged for privately owned residential or commercial rental property, with narrow exceptions for city-owned property and subsidized housing.
Cited to Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 14-101.1 · Verified August 12, 2026 · Full Oklahoma rent-increase rules →
Oklahoma Security deposits
Oklahoma sets no cap on security deposits, but landlords must keep every deposit in an escrow account at a federally insured financial institution located in Oklahoma, and must return the balance, without interest, within 45 days after the tenancy ends, possession is delivered, and the tenant makes a written demand for the money.
Oklahoma Rent increase notice
Oklahoma has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 30-day convention for month-to-month tenancies is derived from 41 O.S. 111(A), which lets either party end a month-to-month or at-will tenancy on 30 days' written notice (7 days for shorter periods), so a landlord proposing higher rent is effectively offering new terms the tenant can decline by leaving.
Oklahoma Late fees
Oklahoma sets no cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period — rent is 'payable at the time and place agreed to by the parties' (41 O.S. 109(B)), so a lease-based late fee can begin accruing the day after rent is due.
Oklahoma Entry notice
Oklahoma landlords must give tenants at least one day's notice before entering a rental for inspections, repairs, services, or showings, and may enter only at reasonable times — with no notice needed in an emergency or where giving it is impracticable.
Oklahoma Eviction process
To evict a tenant in Oklahoma, a landlord serves a written five-day demand for past-due rent - or, for a lease violation, a notice giving the tenant 10 days to cure and setting a termination date at least 15 days after receipt - and then files a forcible entry and detainer affidavit in district court, where trial is set 5 to 10 days after the summons issues.
Oklahoma Application fees
Oklahoma regulates nothing about residential rental application or tenant screening fees: there is no cap, no tie to the cost of screening, no receipt or refund duty, no disclosure a landlord must make before taking the money, and no state denial-notice duty beyond federal law.
Oklahoma mobile home park laws
Oklahoma has no manufactured-home-community tenancy act, but its Residential Landlord and Tenant Act reaches rented lots by name: a dwelling unit includes any site, space or lot leased to the owner or resident of a manufactured or mobile home, and a landlord includes the owner of such a site, space or lot.
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Oklahoma Fair Market Rents (FY 2026) — HUD's benchmark rents for every Oklahoma metro area and county.
Changes since last full verification
The Verified date above (July 9, 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, July 24, 2026 — Oklahoma notice_lease_violation_days corrected 10 to 15: the field encodes the termination date (the day the landlord may first file), and 41 O.S. section 132(B) sets termination at not less than 15 days after receipt with cure in 10. Both figures shown on the page.
How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on two official state hosts: oscn.net (Oklahoma State Courts Network) section pages for 41 O.S. 115, 128, 124, 111, 109, 103, 104, and 131 and for 11 O.S. 14-101.1, cross-checked verbatim against the Oklahoma Legislature's complete-title PDFs (oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os41.pdf and os11.pdf), downloaded and read in full. Every key figure matched word-for-word across both hosts: the escrow-account requirement, the misappropriation penalty (county jail up to 6 months plus fine up to twice the amount misappropriated), the 45-day return clause with its three triggers (termination of tenancy, delivery of possession AND written demand by the tenant), the 6-month demand window with reversion to the landlord, 'without interest', the 30-day/7-day termination notices of 111(A)-(B), the 'one (1) day's notice ... reasonable times' entry rule of 128(C), and the 5-day pay-or-quit window of 131(B). Negative checks run against the full extracted Title 41 text (both the ORLTA and the pre-1978 provisions): no deposit cap, no deposit interest, no late-fee amount/structure/grace regulation anywhere in the title. Pending-bill check 2026-07-09 via the Legislature's own subject index (Session 2600) plus LegiScan/BillTrack50 statuses: the 60th Legislature's 2026 Regular Session adjourned sine die, killing SB1296 (7%+CPI rent cap with 90-day notice; dead 2026-05-14, never heard in committee) and HB3389 (pet deposit/fee regulation; died in House Rules); no enacted 2026 law touches the four topics.