South Dakota Tenant Rights Help — Get Your Action Plan in 60 Seconds
Landlord kept your deposit? Entered without notice? Threatening eviction? Describe what happened in your own words and get a plain-English breakdown, severity rating, step-by-step next steps, and ready-to-send letters — specific to South Dakota law.
Security deposit: must be returned within 14 days of move-out, with an itemized statement for deductions.
Landlord entry: Landlords must generally give 24-hour notice before entering, except in emergencies.
Eviction: requires a court process. Self-help eviction is illegal.
South Dakota landlords must return the deposit within 2 weeks after the tenancy ends once they have the tenant's mailing address; if the landlord withholds funds, the tenant may request a written itemized accounting, which the landlord then has 45 days to provide (§ 43-32-24). Entry requires reasonable notice, generally 24 hours (§ 43-32-32). There is no statutory rent grace period — rent is late the day after it is due — but the bad-faith penalty for deposit violations is capped at only $200, unusually low.
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