How Accurate Are the Big Landlord-Tenant Law Sites? A Four-State Review

Landlord Atlas research. Published: August 10, 2026. Pages checked: August 9 and August 10, 2026.

Summary

Landlord-tenant law changed in at least four states between May 2025 and August 2026: Washington capped rent increases (May 2025), Maine raised its unlawful-entry remedy and enacted a tenant-privacy statute (July 2026), Minnesota changed its rent-payment and eviction rules (August 2026), and Louisiana extended its deposit-itemization deadline (August 2026). We checked whether the relevant pages of two of the most widely read landlord law reference sites, iPropertyManagement.com and DoorLoop.com, reflect those changes.

As of August 10, 2026, none did. Seven relevant pages between the two sites cover the changed rules; not one had caught the change it covers. The eighth check was not possible: DoorLoop publishes no Maine page covering the changed provisions.

• Both sites' Washington pages state that landlords can raise rent without limit. Washington has capped annual increases since May 7, 2025; the 2026 maximum is 9.683 percent. Both pages also understate the required rent-increase notice: the law requires 90 days, one site says 60, the other 30.
• iPropertyManagement's Maine page states the tenant remedy for unlawful entry as "actual damages or $100 (whichever is greater)." The figure has been $250 since July 29, 2026, its first change since 1999. The page does not mention the new tenant-privacy statute enacted by the same law.
• Neither iPropertyManagement's Minnesota page nor DoorLoop's Minnesota eviction page reflects any provision of the housing law that took effect August 1, 2026.
• Neither site's Louisiana coverage reflects the deposit-itemization deadline that changed on August 1, 2026.

Each finding quotes the exact page text, identifies the retrieval date, and cites the controlling statute so any reader can repeat the check.

How the four states were selected

A law page's accuracy is tested by change. We selected four statutory changes that took effect between May 2025 and August 2026, each verified by us against the enacted text, and each changing a rule these reference sites cover. This is a stated selection, not a random sample or an exhaustive list of every change in the period. Every check we ran is reported below, and a page that had caught its change would be reported as current.

Method

1. We retrieved each page and preserved an archived copy. The Washington and Louisiana pages were first retrieved on August 9, 2026 and retrieved again on August 10, 2026; the Maine and Minnesota pages were retrieved on August 10, 2026. All quoted text was live on August 10, 2026.
2. We compared each page's statements against the current official statute text: the Revised Code of Washington and the Washington Department of Commerce's published annual cap, Maine's chaptered Public Law 2025, chapter 767, Minnesota's Laws 2026, chapter 81, and Louisiana's enrolled Act 63 of 2026, each on the relevant state's official legislative site.
3. A statement is reported as an error only if it contradicts the current text of a statute in force, cited below. A page that omits a change is reported as not reflecting it, which is a distinct and lesser finding than an affirmative misstatement. Statements that were accurate when written but are now superseded are errors for today's reader; we note each page's own displayed date in each case.

Washington: rent increases capped since May 2025

What the law says: since May 7, 2025, Washington caps most residential rent increases: no increase during the first 12 months of a tenancy, and after that no more than "seven percent plus the consumer price index, or 10 percent, whichever is less" in any 12-month period (RCW 59.18.700, enacted as EHB 1217, 2025 c 209). The Department of Commerce publishes the maximum each year: 9.683 percent for calendar 2026. RCW 59.18.140(3)(a) requires a minimum of 90 days' prior written notice of any rent increase, with a 30-day exception for certain subsidized tenancies.

iPropertyManagement ("Washington Landlord Tenant Laws (2026)," displayed date February 5, 2025): as of August 10, 2026 the page states that Washington "does not have rent control" and that landlords can "raise the rent by any amount, as often as they choose," and separately that landlords must give "60 days' notice before increasing the rent." Both statements contradict current law, fifteen months after the cap took effect. A landlord who follows this page in 2026 could raise rent above the statutory maximum; RCW 59.18.720 makes such a landlord liable to the tenant for damages, and the Attorney General may enforce the act.

DoorLoop ("Washington Landlord Tenant Rental Laws & Rights for 2026," displayed date January 27, 2026): as of August 10, 2026 the page states that under "the Washington landlord-tenant act, there are no current rent control policies in any state" and that a landlord raising rent "must send a 30-day notice (one month)." Both statements contradict current law. The page displays a January 2026 date, eight months after the cap took effect, yet describes the pre-2025 legal landscape.

Maine: entry remedy raised, privacy statute enacted, July 2026

What the law says: Public Law 2025, chapter 767 (L.D. 2176), effective July 29, 2026, amended 14 M.R.S. § 6025(3) to raise the tenant's recovery for unlawful entry, unreasonable entry, or entry-related harassment from $100 to $250, the first change to that figure since 1999. The same law enacted 14 M.R.S. § 6025-B, which bars a landlord from disclosing a tenant's personal information, with intent to pressure the tenant out of a rental outside the court process, with a minimum recovery of $1,000.

iPropertyManagement ("Maine Landlord Tenant Laws (2026)," displayed date February 10, 2025): as of August 10, 2026 the page states that a tenant whose privacy rights are violated "may recover actual damages or $100 (whichever is greater)," citing 14 M.R.S. § 6025(3). The figure has been $250 for twelve days as of our check. The page's entry section, which covers "Protections Against Abuse" and legal remedies, does not mention § 6025-B. The page's own text asserts currency, stating what is true "As of 2026."

DoorLoop: no assessment possible. DoorLoop's Maine coverage (eviction, security deposits, squatters' rights, and homeowners associations) does not include a page covering entry or tenant-privacy rules.

Minnesota: rent-payment and eviction changes, August 2026

What the law says: Laws 2026, chapter 81, effective August 1, 2026, amended Minn. Stat. 504B.118 to add protections when rent is paid through a digital payment platform: the landlord must offer a free alternative when the platform is down, may not penalize a tenant when payment failed because both channels were down, and a violation gives the tenant an affirmative defense to a nonpayment eviction. The law also enacted Minn. Stat. 504B.2136, which bars listing a tenant's minor child as a defendant in an eviction action, with recovery of actual damages or $300, whichever is greater. (The statute's separate requirement that cash rent payments be receipted predates chapter 81 and is not part of these findings.)

iPropertyManagement ("Minnesota Landlord Tenant Laws (2026)," displayed date February 10, 2025): as of August 10, 2026 the page reflects none of chapter 81's provisions. Its rent-payment section describes the carried-over receipt rule but none of the new digital-payment protections, and its eviction material does not mention the bar on naming minors.

DoorLoop ("Minnesota Eviction Laws: The Process & Timeline In 2026," displayed date May 20, 2026): as of August 10, 2026 the page describes who may be subject to an eviction action without mentioning the bar on naming minor children or any other provision of chapter 81, nine days after the law took effect, under a title claiming 2026 currency.

Louisiana: deposit-itemization deadline extended, August 2026

What the law says: Act 63 of the 2026 Regular Session (House Bill 292) amended R.S. 9:3251(A): effective August 1, 2026, the itemized statement explaining deposit deductions may be sent within one month after the tenancy terminates "or within fifteen days after the date that is one month after the tenancy terminates." The deposit itself must still be returned within one month. The Legislature's statute page for R.S. 9:3251 had not yet incorporated the amendment when we checked; the enrolled act text, linked below, is controlling.

iPropertyManagement ("Louisiana Security Deposit Laws (2026)," displayed date December 30, 2025): as of August 10, 2026, nine days after Act 63 took effect, the page describes only the one-month rule for the itemized deduction statement and does not mention the fifteen-day extension. A page current as of its displayed December 2025 date could not have covered a 2026 act; the point is that it had not been updated nine days after effect, under a title claiming 2026 currency.

DoorLoop ("Louisiana Landlord Tenant Rental Laws & Rights for 2026," displayed date March 2, 2026): as of August 10, 2026 the page states only the one-month deposit return rule and does not mention Act 63 or the fifteen-day extension.

What the dates on these pages mean

Every page above carries a 2026 label: a "(2026)" or "for 2026" title, and in several cases a displayed date within 2026. Every page above also describes at least one rule that law in force in 2026 contradicts, or omits a 2026 change to the rules it covers. Whatever those labels reflect, it is not verification of the page's legal content against current law. A current-year label on a landlord-tenant law page is not evidence of current-year accuracy.

Limitations

• This is a review of four changes across two sites, under the selection criterion stated above, not a full audit of either site. Findings should not be extrapolated beyond the pages named.
• The quoted passages were live as of August 10, 2026. The publishers may correct these pages at any time after publication. Archived copies of every page cited were preserved on the retrieval dates. If a named page is corrected, we will note the correction and its date here.
• One check was not possible: DoorLoop publishes no Maine page covering the provisions Maine changed. That is reported as no assessment, not as an error.
• Louisiana's official statute website had not yet incorporated Act 63 into its R.S. 9:3251 page when we checked, a normal codification lag; we therefore cite the enrolled act directly. Maine's chaptered law is cited the same way for the same reason.

Disclosure

Landlord Atlas publishes state landlord-tenant law summaries and datasets and competes with the sites named in this review. That is also why we are in a position to check them: every claim above is tied to official statute text a reader can verify independently, using the sources below, without taking our word or theirs. Our own verification process, including how and when each of our records was last verified against official sources, is published on our methodology page.

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