Rentable already wrote a guide for every state, but they sit behind a dropdown as blog posts. A manager with units in three states has no quick way to see where their current process breaks the law, which is the most urgent reason to book a demo.
First action
Write the five questions and the gap rules for the five states with the most current customers.
How to measure it
Booked meetings from compliance checks
- Now
- –
- Target
- 10 a month
- By
- 60 days
Steps
Pick the states
The five states most current customers operate in, Massachusetts first.
Marketing Lead 1 hour
Write the gap rules
For each state: cap, deadline, interest, paperwork, penalty, taken from the existing guides.
Marketing Lead 1 day
Legal review
Have counsel check the rules and add "not legal advice".
Founder 3 days
Build the form
HubSpot form with a calendar link on the result page.
Marketing Lead 1 day
Generate the report
A one-page PDF per state with the manager's answers in it.
Senior Full Stack Engineer 2 days
Route to sales
Every report creates a HubSpot task for a same-day follow-up.
Marketing Lead 2 hours
Promote it
Link from every state guide, the LinkedIn page and event follow-ups.
Marketing Lead 2 hours
Why it works
A short form (states, unit count, how deposits are held today, how fast they are returned) that produces a one-page gap report per state: the cap, the return deadline, interest owed, the paperwork required, and the penalty for getting it wrong. The report is emailed and the form books a call.
The Marketing Lead is measured on meetings, not impressions, and a personal compliance gap is a reason to meet this week. Massachusetts alone shows the stakes: a missed account, list or deadline costs the landlord three times the deposit plus fees.
Ready to use
ChecklistCompliance check questions
[ ] Which states are your units in? [ ] How many units in each? [ ] Where are deposits held today (operating account, separate account, escrow)? [ ] Do you pay interest on deposits? [ ] How many days after move-out are deposits returned? [ ] Do you send an itemized list of deductions? [ ] Who reconciles deposits at move-out?
Risks and how to handle them
Reads as legal advice
Clear "not legal advice" wording and counsel review of each state rule.
Laws change
Date every rule and review the five states each quarter.
Evidence
- Your websiteThe Security Deposit Compliance Laws page is a state dropdown linking to 51 state guides on the blog; the HTML holds only state names, the Iowa link has a typo ("lowa-"), and the "Latest Articles" list includes unrelated posts such as sustainable travel and mindfulness.Source
- Search resultsMassachusetts G.L. c. 186 s. 15B: deposits held in a separate interest-bearing Massachusetts bank account, 5% interest a year, a receipt within 30 days, a statement of condition, return within 30 days with an itemized sworn list, and treble damages plus fees when a landlord gets it wrong.Source
- HiringMarketing Lead (first marketing hire, posted October 2026): own the tradeshow calendar (NAA Apartmentalize, state and regional apartment association shows, PMS user conferences like Rent Manager), the content calendar ("Make Rentable the clearest voice on security deposits in multifamily"), LinkedIn, the inbound path from first touch to booked meeting in HubSpot, attribution and PMS partner co-marketing. Measured on "meetings and pipeline, not impressions". First 90 days: the 2027 event calendar, the first customer case study, a weekly LinkedIn cadence and a measurement framework.Source