Security Deposit Alternative in Kansas
Kansas caps a security deposit at one month's rent for an unfurnished unit, one and a half months if you furnish it, and another half month if the resident keeps a pet. When the tenancy ends you have 14 days after working out the deductions to return the balance, and never more than 30 days after the resident moves out and asks. Withhold wrongly and you owe one and a half times the amount on top of the deposit itself.
What Kansas law says about security deposits
Read from the Kansas statute on 2026-09-10. Deposit rules change, and this is general information rather than legal advice. Confirm the current text with your own counsel before you change a lease.
Can you require it of every Kansas resident?
Kansas has no statute written for a monthly fee charged instead of a deposit, so the arrangement rests on your lease and the general deposit rules. The cap is set by the unit: one month's rent unfurnished, one and a half months if you supply the furniture, and an extra half month if the resident keeps a pet. Any deposit you keep has to be itemized in a written notice, and the balance returned within 14 days of working out the deductions and in no case more than 30 days after the tenancy ends, possession comes back and the resident asks. Withhold wrongly and you owe the amount plus one and a half times it in damages. The resident, for their part, may not treat the deposit as the last month's rent; doing so forfeits it.
Rules differ by state and by city, and subsidized housing is its own question. This is general information for property managers, not legal advice. Get a written opinion before you make the fee a condition of tenancy anywhere.
How the program works in Kansas
The mechanics are the same in every state Beagle operates in. The program is designed to comply with applicable state and local regulations, and the rate is set by the deposit amount rather than by geography, so a Kansas property and one two states over are quoted the same way.
The resident chooses at signing
Instead of producing the full deposit, the resident pays a smaller non-refundable monthly fee that is billed with rent. Nothing is held, so nothing has to be returned.
The property keeps its protection
Damage beyond normal wear is reimbursed up to the deposit amount the unit would otherwise have required, so what you can recover does not shrink.
Move-out stops being a negotiation
A claim is filed against the program rather than deducted from money you are holding, which takes the itemised-deduction letter and the dispute that follows it off your team's desk.
You earn on every resident who takes it
You set an administrative fee on top of the premium, up to $5 per unit per month, and keep it.
Kansas security deposit alternative FAQs
Because one month is the ceiling, not the exposure. Flooring, drywall and appliance repair after a long tenancy routinely run past it, and Kansas prices a wrongful deduction at one and a half times the amount. A deposit alternative lowers what a resident has to produce at move-in without lowering what the property can recover.
Security deposit rules in other states
See it on your Kansas units
Run the program against your own unit count, or walk through it with our team. No upfront fees, no onboarding charges, no long-term contracts.