Free Alaska Security Deposit Itemization Form

An Alaska Security Deposit Itemized Statement of Deductions is the line-by-line accounting a landlord must put in writing whenever any part of a tenant’s deposit is kept. Under Alaska Stat. Section 34.03.070(b), accrued rent and damages must be itemized by the landlord in a written notice mailed to the tenant’s last known address within the deadline in subsection (g) — fourteen days after termination and delivery of possession, or thirty days where the landlord deducts for tenant-caused damage or the tenant gave no proper notice. Skip the itemization or pad it with wear-and-tear charges, and subsection (d) exposes a landlord who wilfully withholds to double the amount wrongfully withheld.

Complete the builder below to generate a state-compliant Alaska itemized statement of deductions, ready to print, sign, and mail by certified mail. Enter the original deposit, list each deduction with a specific description under Alaska Stat. 34.03.070(b), and the generator subtracts the total deductions from the deposit to compute the refund balance automatically — both live on the page and in the downloaded PDF. Fill every line specifically; a vague, lump-sum entry is what fuels most Alaska deposit disputes and is routinely reduced in district court.

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An Alaska Security Deposit Itemized Statement of Deductions is the document Alaska Stat. 34.03.070(b) actually names. The statute does not merely tell a landlord to return whatever is left of the deposit; it tells the landlord that when accrued rent or damages are charged against the deposit, those amounts must be itemized by the landlord in a written notice mailed to the tenant’s last known address. In other words, the right to keep any portion of the deposit is conditioned on producing this written, line-by-line accounting. A landlord who keeps money but never sends a proper itemization has not met the condition, and the retained money becomes an amount “wrongfully withheld” for the purposes of the double-damages remedy in subsection (d).

This is why the itemized statement, not the cover letter, is the legally load-bearing document. The Alaska Security Deposit Return Letter is the friendly cover accounting a landlord mails with the refund check; this itemized statement is the exhibit that satisfies the statute’s demand for detail. Many careful Alaska landlords send both — a brief cover letter and this schedule of deductions — but if only one document is prepared, it should be the itemization, because that is the writing the statute requires. Both share the same deposit arithmetic: the original deposit plus any interest, minus the sum of the itemized deductions, equals the refund balance owed to the tenant, or the balance the tenant still owes when the deductions run higher than the deposit.

The itemization also protects the landlord as much as it informs the tenant. A specific, receipted line item is evidence; a lump-sum “cleaning and repairs” figure is an invitation to litigate. When a departing tenant sees each charge named, quantified, and tied to a receipt or a dated photograph, disputes tend to evaporate before they reach the Alaska district court. When the tenant sues anyway, the itemized statement is the landlord’s first exhibit, and its quality often decides the case. Building the statement carefully at move-out is therefore not paperwork for its own sake; it is the difference between a defensible deduction and a wrongful withholding that draws a penalty.

The itemized statement carries a clock, and the length of that clock is set by subsection (g). Under Alaska Stat. Section 34.03.070, the landlord must mail the written itemized notice and refund to the tenant within a fixed window measured from termination of the tenancy and delivery of possession. That window is the spine of the whole deposit process, and missing it is one of the surest routes to a double-damages claim.

The length of the window turns on two facts. Under subsection (g), if the landlord or tenant gives notice that complies with AS 34.03.290 — the statute governing periodic-tenancy termination notice — the landlord has fourteen days after the tenancy is terminated and possession is delivered to mail the itemized notice and refund. That fourteen-day window stretches to thirty days when the landlord deducts costs for damages suffered because of the tenant’s noncompliance with AS 34.03.120. And when the tenant does not give notice complying with AS 34.03.290 — or the landlord becomes aware the unit is abandoned — the deadline is thirty days regardless. Because the fourteen-day track is narrow, the safest habit is to date-stamp both termination and delivery of possession, confirm whether proper notice was given, and mail the itemized statement well before the applicable deadline.

A subtle point trips up many landlords: the very act of taking a damage deduction is what pushes a fourteen-day case into the thirty-day track. If a landlord gives or receives proper AS 34.03.290 notice but then itemizes even a single tenant-caused repair, the statute grants the extra time to assemble the accounting. That does not mean a landlord should wait; it means the law recognizes that documenting damage takes longer than simply cutting a full refund check. The prudent practice is to treat thirty days as the outer limit whenever any deduction appears on the statement, while still mailing as soon as the receipts and photographs are gathered.

When a landlord applies any part of the deposit to accrued rent or damages, Alaska Stat. 34.03.070(b) requires that the accrued rent and damages be itemized by the landlord in a written notice mailed to the tenant’s last known address within the time limit set by subsection (g). The itemization is not a formality; it is the statutory condition of lawfully keeping any money. Vague, lump-sum entries invite dispute and are routinely reduced or rejected in Alaska district court. Each line should name what was damaged or cleaned, why the charge was necessary, and the exact amount, and each should be backed by a receipt, invoice, or dated move-out photograph.

Subsection (b) also frames what may be deducted at all: the deposit may be applied to the payment of accrued rent and to the amount of damages the landlord has suffered by reason of the tenant’s noncompliance with AS 34.03.120 — the tenant’s core obligations to keep the unit clean and to avoid deliberate or negligent damage. Critically, subsection (b) expressly excludes deterioration that is the result of normal wear and tear. In practice that means unpaid rent, repair of tenant-caused damage beyond ordinary wear and tear, and reasonable cleaning to restore the unit to its move-in condition may be itemized, while the ordinary aging of the unit may not. The generator above produces the deposit accounting exactly in this order: original deposit plus any interest, minus the itemized deductions, equals the refund balance owed.

Alaska’s deduction rule is narrow by design, and the itemized statement should reflect that discipline. Subsection (b) permits the deposit to be applied only to accrued rent and to damages from the tenant’s noncompliance with AS 34.03.120, and it excludes normal wear and tear. That distinction determines which lines belong on the statement. Ordinary wear and tear is the gradual aging every rental undergoes regardless of who lives there — faded paint, minor scuffs, carpet flattened along a normal traffic path, and small nail holes from hanging pictures. These are the cost of doing business as a landlord, not chargeable losses, and a landlord who itemizes them is listing amounts the statute does not allow.

Damage is different, and it is the proper subject of the statement. Deterioration caused by the tenant’s deliberate or negligent conduct, or by a guest or occupant, may be itemized — a cigarette burn in the carpet, a hole punched in drywall, a broken window, or pet urine soaked into the subfloor. Accrued rent, including an unpaid final month or a partial period, is likewise a legitimate line. Reasonable cleaning that returns the unit to its move-in condition, above and beyond ordinary tidying, may also be itemized when documented. The dividing line matters because a landlord who dresses up ordinary wear as damage and itemizes it is not only withholding unlawfully but also feeding the wilful-withholding analysis that triggers double damages under subsection (d).

When a line item is genuinely a judgment call, prorate for the item’s useful life rather than charging the full replacement cost, and state that reasoning on the statement. A carpet with a ten-year expected life that is ruined after seven years of tenancy has roughly three years of value left; itemizing the full replacement cost overreaches, while itemizing the depreciated portion attributable to the tenant’s damage is defensible. Alaska courts and tenants alike respond better to a transparent, prorated number with an explanation than to a full-price demand that ignores the item’s age. The itemized statement is the place to show that math.

Alaska’s enforcement mechanism sits in subsection (d): if the landlord wilfully fails to comply with the itemization-and-return duty in subsection (b), the tenant may recover an amount not to exceed twice the actual amount wrongfully withheld. Read that arithmetic carefully — the tenant can recover the wrongfully held deposit itself and, on top of it, an equal