Kansas Rental Lease Agreement Templates

Grace Period: Kansas explicitly requires timely rent payments (KSA § 58-2545).

Unpaid Rent: Landlords terminate the lease after a 3-day pay or quit notice expires without payment (KSA § 58-2564).

Kansas enforces reasonable late fees in the lease; however, any unreasonable or punitive fee is not enforceable (KSA § 58-2544).

Kansas enables landlords to charge up to $30 for a bounced rent check; however, they must send a 14-day notice to pay (KSA § 60-2610).

Landlords require up to 1 month security for unfurnished dwellings and 1.5 months for furnished dwellings accordingly (KSA § 58-2550).

Pet Deposit: Landlords can also ask for up to half a month as a pet security deposit (KSA § 58-2550(a)).

Returning to Tenant: Kansas explicitly sets a timeline for landlord-tenant interactions when returning security:

• Landlords have up to 14 days (and no more) to assess the property and any damages to deduct.
• Tenants must receive the security within 14 days of the landlord’s evaluation.
• Regardless of landlord evaluation, tenants must receive the security deposit within 30 days of lease termination (KSA § 58-2550).

Itemized List: Landlords must deliver a list of itemized deductions for any damages from the security amount (KSA § 58-2550).

Tenants do not pay less rent in order to reimburse themselves for repairs; however, they sue for damages and seek injunctive relief (KSA 58-2559(a)).

Kansas gives landlords the right to assume abandonment whenever the rent is more than 10 days late, a significant amount of furniture or belongings are no longer present, but requires the landlord wait 30 days before entry and a 30-day hold and notice before disposing of property (KSA § 58-2565(b)–(d)).

Standard Entry: Landlords have the right to enter during reasonable hours with notice and consent for repairs, services, and showings (KSA § 58-2557).
Emergency Entry: Landlords may enter with or without consent during emergencies to prevent loss of life or property damage (KSA § 58-2557).

Duty to Mitigate: Landlords must re-rent a premises “at a fair rental” in order to control losses from delinquent tenants (KSA § 58-2565(c))

Domestic Violence: Protected persons terminate leases by notice that includes professional statements (e.g. medical/mental health professional) and court orders (KSA § 58-25,137(f)(1)).

Active Military: Kansas supports federal law and allows service members lease terminations with 30 days’ notice whenever they must move for a permanent assignment or one longer than 90 days (KSA § 58-2570(b)).

Landlord Noncompliance: Landlords significantly violating leases are subject to:

• Tenants issuing a 30-day repair or quit notice with a 14-day window to repair
• Lease termination
• Lawsuits

Landlord Harassment: Landlords may not repeatedly abuse the right to enter, illegally interrupt the tenant’s utilities or vital services, or lock out the tenant (KSA § 58-2571(b)).

Uninhabitable Condition: If, after a 30-day notice expires, the landlord does not rectify serious habitability issues, tenants accordingly terminate the lease. (KSA § 58-2563, KSA § 58-2553).

Only an oral lease that is under one year in term is enforceable by Kansas (KSA § 33-105).

Kansas does not govern rent increases and, in fact, restricts municipalities from placing such constraints on a renewing lease (KSA § 12-16,120(a)).

Generally, after abandonment, landlords store the tenant’s possessions (at tenant expense), issue a 30-day notice, and dispose of the property if unanswered (KSA § 58-2565(d)).

The Kansas Statutes Annotated – Chapter 25: Landlords and Tenants presents the laws tenants and landlords must observe.