No seats, no per-property fees, no annual contract. Open as many draft tenants as you want — you're billed when you click Export packet. Free photo apps store the pictures. The $29 is for the part that carries statutory consequences: the itemized accounting, the receipts, and the 21-day date.
Civil Code §1950.5(l): a court can award the tenant up to twice the deposit in damages if it finds a deduction was withheld in bad faith.
Miss the 21-day itemized statement and you forfeit the right to deduct anything — regardless of how legitimate the damage was.
A free photo library and a free condition report are genuinely useful, and AB 2801 made the photographs mandatory. But nothing about a photo roll computes the deadline, itemizes the deductions, attaches the receipt that §1950.5(g)(2) requires above $125, or produces the written accounting the tenant is owed. Those are the four places the statute attaches a penalty — and they are what the $29 is for.
21 calendar days from the day possession returns. Weekends and holidays count.
Itemized deductions, totals, and the balance actually returned — reconciled.
Documents attached to the charge they support, with estimates disclosed as estimates.
Captured, paired move-in to move-out, and delivered with the statement as AB 2801 requires.
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Because the free ones solve the photo half. Storing timestamped move-in and move-out pictures is real work and AB 2801 now requires it — but a photo library does not compute the 21-day deadline, itemize the deductions, enforce the $125 receipt threshold, or produce the written accounting §1950.5 obliges you to deliver. Every penalty in the statute attaches to those four things. If a free tool covers your photographs, use it and pay us for the packet; the $29 is priced against a forfeited deposit plus up to twice that amount under §1950.5(l), not against a subscription.
Yes. Move-in capture, move-out capture paired to the same rooms, and the post-repair set, all dated and stored on the tenant file — then delivered inside the packet alongside the itemized statement, which is where AB 2801 requires them to go.
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California today, with built-in awareness of the 21-day deadline and §1950.5 cover-letter framing. More states arriving as the regulatory schema is mapped.
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