3 rules for unincorporated Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania has no rent control and no statute authorizing it, so neither Monroe County nor any Pocono township can cap rent. Landlords set market rents and raise them at renewal, limited only by the lease and the required notice.
68 P.S. § 250.511a
No landlord may require a sum in excess of two months' rent to be deposited in escrow for the payment of damages to the leasehold premises and/or default in rent thereof during the first year of any lease.
Pennsylvania does not require just cause to end a tenancy. Under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951 a Monroe County landlord may decline to renew a month-to-month tenant with written notice to quit, 15 or 30 days depending on the term.
68 P.S. § 250.512
Every landlord shall within thirty days of termination of a lease or upon surrender and acceptance of the leasehold premises, whichever first occurs, provide a tenant with a written list of any damages to the leasehold premises for which the landlord claims the tenant is liable.
Registration is a municipal job in Pennsylvania, and the Stroudsburgs run active programs. East Stroudsburg, home to the university, licenses and inspects rentals every year, and Pocono POA communities layer their own tenant-registration and lease-term rules on top.
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