Free Arkansas Landlord Forms
Every Arkansas landlord form we publish, organised by the stage of the tenancy it belongs to, each one paired with the Arkansas Code section and the deadline that triggers it — including the three different nonpayment notice periods Arkansas runs at the same time, which almost every other page on this subject reduces to one.
Every form linked on this page is free, fillable in your browser, and downloadable as a PDF with no account, no membership and no paywall. That is worth saying plainly, because most of the pages competing for this search are not: the largest landlord-association form library puts its Arkansas forms behind a membership wall, and the deepest form packets in these results are subscription products. Arkansas is also the state where getting the statute right matters most, because Arkansas does not have one landlord-tenant law. It has three overlapping ones, and they do not agree with each other.
The short version
- There is no single Arkansas nonpayment notice period. Three statutes run in parallel: three days under the civil unlawful detainer statute, five days under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, and ten days under the criminal failure-to-vacate statute. Any page giving you one number is wrong.
- Cure-or-quit — fourteen days from receipt, § 18-17-701(a)(1). A single date, not a cure-then-terminate split.
- Entry — the Arkansas Code prescribes no notice period at all. There is no twenty-four-hour rule to follow, because the statute is drafted as a duty on the tenant, not the landlord.
- Security deposit — capped at two months’ rent, returned within sixty days — but the whole subchapter does not apply to a landlord who owns five or fewer units.
- Month-to-month termination — thirty days, § 18-17-704. Week-to-week is seven days.
- Court — the case is an unlawful detainer. Arkansas publishes essentially no official eviction forms, which is unusual and is covered honestly below.
The Three Arkansas Nonpayment Regimes
This is the single most important thing on the page, and it is the thing the rest of the Arkansas search results get wrong. Arkansas never consolidated its landlord-tenant law. Three separate statutory paths can each be used when a tenant does not pay rent, and each one carries a different notice period.
| Route | Notice | Authority | What it actually is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil unlawful detainer | 3 days | § 18-60-304(3) | The mainstream civil eviction route, and the one our three-day form is built for. |
| Residential Landlord-Tenant Act | 5 days | § 18-17-701(b), corroborated at § 18-17-901(b) | The 2007 Act’s own nonpayment provision, sitting alongside the older statute rather than replacing it. |
| Criminal failure to vacate | 10 days | § 18-16-101(b)(1) | A misdemeanour prosecution against the tenant. Legally contested — see the warning below. |
All three periods are counted in calendar days. None of the three carries an exclusion qualifier, and the contrast with § 18-60-307 — which does expressly exclude certain days — supports reading them as plain calendar counts. Practically, the civil three-day route under § 18-60-304(3) is the one most Arkansas landlords use and the one our form serves.
The criminal statute is contested, and you should not treat it as a safe route. Arkansas remains the only state with a criminal failure-to-vacate statute. Since Act 159 of 2017 the penalty is one to twenty-five dollars per offence, with each day a separate offence. Four circuit courts — Craighead, Poinsett, Pulaski and Woodruff — held it unconstitutional in 2015, but those were trial-level decisions and are not binding statewide. A 2021 federal challenge was dismissed on mootness in August 2022, not on the merits. Roughly half of Arkansas counties decline to enforce it. You will also see it claimed that the statute was struck down in 2023; that claim has no primary support and should be treated as false. It remains on the books and has never been struck down by an Arkansas appellate court. Take advice before using it.
Every Arkansas Landlord Form, by Stage of the Tenancy
Alphabetical form lists are how most sites present this, and they are the least useful arrangement, because a landlord almost never arrives knowing the name of the document they need. They arrive knowing what has happened. The index below is ordered by where you are in the tenancy, and each entry names the Arkansas Code section that makes the form necessary.
Starting the tenancy
- Arkansas residential lease agreement — the master document, and it carries more weight in Arkansas than in most states. Because the Code is silent on entry, on grace periods and on late fees, the lease is the only place those terms can come from at all.
- Lead-based paint form — required by federal law, not Arkansas law, for any dwelling built before 1978.
- Move-in / move-out condition checklist — not required by statute, and the most valuable optional form here. A signed move-in record is what turns a deposit deduction from an argument into a documented fact.
During the tenancy
- Notice to enter the property — used as a matter of good practice and to satisfy a lease term, not to satisfy a statute. Arkansas prescribes no entry notice period. See the section below.
- Rent increase notice — Arkansas has no rent control and no statutory rent-increase notice period. For a month-to-month tenancy the operative rule is the § 18-17-704 thirty-day termination period.
- Late rent notice — a courtesy reminder, not a statutory notice. It starts no clock.
When the tenant breaches
- Three-day notice to pay rent or quit — the civil unlawful detainer route under § 18-60-304(3), which is the path most Arkansas landlords take. If you are proceeding under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act instead, give five days under § 18-17-701(b).
- Notice to cure or quit — § 18-17-701(a)(1), fourteen days from receipt, for a material noncompliance other than rent.
- Unconditional quit notice — for conduct that cannot be cured. Section 18-17-701(a)(2) conditions the right to cure on the breach being remediable by repairs or otherwise, and § 18-60-304 supplies express grounds at subsection (4), premises rendered unsafe, unhealthy or uninhabitable, and subsection (5), nuisance, both added by Act 1052 of 2021.
Ending the tenancy without fault
- Notice of non-renewal — used when a fixed term is ending and you do not intend to renew.
- Tenant notice to vacate — the tenant’s side of § 18-17-704. Thirty days for a month-to-month tenancy, seven for week-to-week.
After the tenant moves out
- Security deposit itemisation — § 18-16-305, within sixty days, and only if the deposit subchapter applies to you at all.
- Security deposit return letter — the covering document that goes with the refund.
The Arkansas Security Deposit Exemption That Swallows the Rule
Arkansas caps a security deposit at two months’ rent under § 18-16-304 and requires the refund, with an itemised statement of any deductions, within sixty days of termination of the tenancy under § 18-16-305. Note that the sixty-day clock runs from termination of the tenancy, not from surrender of possession, which is a genuine difference from most states. Unclaimed funds become the landlord’s property after a further one hundred eighty days.
Then comes the provision that changes the answer for a large share of Arkansas landlords.
Section 18-16-303(a): the deposit subchapter does not apply to a landlord who owns five or fewer rental units. The count aggregates units owned by the landlord individually, by their spouse, by their minor children and by any entity they control. For an exempt landlord there is no cap, no sixty-day deadline and no penalty at all — the entire subchapter is switched off. There is one clawback, at § 18-16-303(b): the exemption does not apply where management, including rent collection, is performed by a third party for a fee. So a small owner who uses a letting agent is back inside the rules.
Where the subchapter does apply, the penalty at § 18-16-306 is real: twice the amount wrongfully withheld, plus costs and attorney’s fees. Two defences are written into the section — that the error occurred despite reasonable procedures adopted to avoid it, and that the withholding rested on a good-faith dispute. Our Arkansas security deposit laws guide works through the exemption test and the withholding categories in detail. If you are near the five-unit boundary, count carefully before relying on the exemption; the aggregation rule catches more owners than it first appears to.
Entry: Arkansas Has No Notice Rule, and That Is the Finding
Almost every commercial page on Arkansas landlord law states a twenty-four-hour entry notice requirement. There is no such requirement in the Arkansas Code.
The relevant provision, § 18-17-602, is drafted entirely as a duty on the tenant: the tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent to the landlord to enter. It prescribes no notice period, no method of giving notice, and no reasonable-hours limitation on the landlord. Arkansas simply did not enact the entry section that most states in this statutory family have.
Do not publish or rely on a twenty-four-hour Arkansas entry rule. No Arkansas analogue exists. This does not mean a landlord may enter at will — a lease term will usually govern, the tenant’s consent is still the operative concept in § 18-17-602, and entry that amounts to harassment can create liability on other grounds. But if you are looking for the statutory number, there is not one to find.
The practical consequence is that in Arkansas the lease does the work the statute does elsewhere. If you want a defined entry-notice period, write it into the agreement, because the Code will not supply one. Our Arkansas landlord entry laws guide sets out what the section does and does not do.
Serving an Arkansas Notice
Arkansas is unusual here too: no method of service is prescribed anywhere for the pre-suit notice, and there is no add-days-for-mailing rule. Section 18-17-301 contains sixteen definitions and no notice or service provision at all.
That silence has a sharp practical edge, because § 18-17-701(a)(1) measures the fourteen-day cure period from the tenant’s receipt of the notice. With no statutory delivery method and no mailing presumption, the risk of a mailed notice going astray sits entirely on the landlord. Hand delivery with a witness, or certified mail with return receipt alongside ordinary first-class mail, are the defensible approaches — not because a statute requires them, but because you will have to prove the receipt date if the tenancy is contested.
The one express service method in the chain sits at § 18-60-307(c) and requires certified mail — but that governs the hearing notice inside the court process, not the pre-suit notice, and the two are frequently conflated. Our Arkansas eviction notice laws guide keeps the two sequences separate.
Arkansas Court Forms: the Honest Answer
Most pages of this kind list official form numbers. For Arkansas the truthful answer is that there are almost none, and saying so is more useful than inventing them. Confirmed against the Administrative Office of the Courts index: Arkansas publishes no complaint, no answer, no writ, no default form and no notice form for eviction.
| Step | What Arkansas actually publishes |
|---|---|
| Pre-suit notice | Nothing. The notice is drafted by the landlord — which is exactly why the fillable notices above exist. |
| Complaint | Nothing. Drafted to the pleading rules. |
| Summons | The Official Form of Summons under Arkansas Rule of Civil Procedure 4 — which has no form number. Proof of service is embedded in it rather than being a separate document. |
| Notice of intention to issue writ of possession | The one genuinely citable eviction form text in Arkansas: it is set out verbatim in the statute itself at § 18-60-307(a). It is legislatively prescribed rather than court-published. |
| Answer / default / writ | Nothing published. |
| Fee waiver | In Forma Pauperis Affidavit under Rule 72 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure — again, no number. |
Two citation traps worth naming. First, do not cite “ARCP Form 1” or “ARCP Form 2” — Arkansas has no numbered civil forms appendix, and those citations circulate anyway. Second, arcourtkiosk.org is not an official court site; it is run by the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission, a nonprofit. It is a useful resource, but attribute it correctly rather than presenting its documents as court-issued.
Filing fees
The statutory base fees are one hundred fifty dollars in circuit court under § 21-6-403(b)(1), and in district court sixty-five dollars for a general civil filing with fifty dollars for small claims under § 16-17-705. What you actually pay is usually higher, because technology and administrative surcharges are added locally: Pulaski County circuit court collects one hundred sixty-five dollars, and Little Rock District Court collects sixty-five dollars for small claims and eighty for general civil. Quoting the statutory base alone therefore understates the cost. Confirm with the clerk of the court where you intend to file, because the surcharges are local and we have deliberately not published figures for counties we could not verify directly.
Which Arkansas Form Do I Need?
Work down this list and stop at the first line that matches your situation.
- The tenant has not paid rent and you want the ordinary civil route. Three-day notice under § 18-60-304(3), then an unlawful detainer action.
- You are proceeding under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act instead. Five days under § 18-17-701(b).
- Someone has suggested the criminal route. Ten days under § 18-16-101(b)(1) — but read the warning above first, and take advice.
- The tenant has broken the lease in another material way. Fourteen days from receipt under § 18-17-701(a)(1), describing the breach and a specific achievable cure.
- The breach cannot be remedied by repairs or otherwise. Unconditional quit notice, with the § 18-60-304(4) or (5) ground named.
- Nobody is at fault and the term is ending. Thirty days for month-to-month under § 18-17-704; seven days for week-to-week.
- You need to get into the property. There is no statutory period. Follow the lease, and give reasonable notice in writing anyway.
- The tenant has moved out. First ask whether you own more than five units. If you do, you have sixty days under § 18-16-305. If you do not, and no agent manages the property for a fee, the subchapter does not apply to you.
- The notice period has expired and the tenant is still there. File the unlawful detainer under § 18-60-301 and following. Do not change locks or cut utilities.
The Arkansas Eviction Timeline
The unlawful detainer action under § 18-60-301 and following may be brought in circuit or district court, and § 18-17-701(c)(1) removes the bond requirement that used to apply. The sequence contains one interval that is counted in a way found almost nowhere else.
| Step | Who acts | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Serve the statutory notice | Landlord | Day zero — three, five or ten days depending on the route |
| File the unlawful detainer | Landlord | Once the notice period has run |
| Notice of intention to issue writ | Landlord, on the statutory form | Served under § 18-60-307, with the text prescribed at subsection (a) |
| Tenant’s window to object | Tenant | Five days, excluding Sundays and legal holidays only — Saturdays do count |
| No objection filed | Clerk | The statute says the clerk shall immediately issue a writ of possession |
| Answer to the substantive claim | Tenant | Thirty days — a separate and much longer deadline from the five-day objection window |
The five-day objection window is not a business-day count. Section 18-60-307 excludes Sundays and legal holidays only. Saturdays are counted. Landlords and tenants who assume a conventional business-day rule — excluding Saturdays too — will both miscount, and on the tenant’s side that mistake forfeits the objection.
Habitability in Arkansas Is Not What You Expect
Arkansas was for many years the only state with no residential implied warranty of habitability, and Act 1052 of 2021 changed that less than the headlines suggested. Section 18-17-502 applies to leases entered into on or after 1 November 2021 and sets six standards for the premises. But it is expressly not framed as an implied warranty, and subsection (d) narrows the remedy sharply.
Where a landlord fails to meet the standards, the tenant’s sole remedy, after thirty days’ written notice and with rent fully current, is to terminate the lease without penalty and recover the security deposit. There is no rent withholding, no repair-and-deduct and no damages action under the section. This matters for landlords in both directions: your exposure is narrower than in most states, and a tenant purporting to withhold rent or deduct repair costs under an Arkansas habitability theory is not doing something the statute authorises. Our Arkansas habitability laws guide covers the six standards and the notice mechanics.
A sourcing caution we are passing on deliberately. While researching Act 1052 we encountered a widely reachable document that produced citations to a non-existent “§ 34-27” series and a repair-and-deduct remedy Arkansas has never enacted. There is no § 34-27 landlord-tenant provision in the Arkansas Code. If you meet that citation anywhere, it is not law. Similarly, at least one major free code publisher still serves the pre-2017 text of § 18-16-101 with no version warning.
Late Fees, Grace Periods and Returned Payments
The Arkansas Code is silent on both grace periods and late-fee caps. A late fee is enforceable only because the lease creates it. You will sometimes see the five-day period in § 18-17-701(b) described as an Arkansas grace period — it is not. It is a notice period that runs after rent is already late, and restating it as a grace period gives tenants a licence the statute does not.
You will also see the claim that Arkansas late fees “must be reasonable” attached to a section number. The reasonableness principle is common law, not statute, and no Arkansas Code section states it. Treat it as sound practical guidance and do not cite a section for it. Our Arkansas late fee laws guide explains the enforceability position.
Returned payments are handled at § 4-60-103, which permits a collection fee of thirty dollars plus bank charges, available only through the statutory two-step written demand. Where that demand has been made by certified mail and thirty days have passed, enhanced damages of twice the amount of the instrument become available, with a fifty dollar minimum.
Small Claims: the Right Authority to Cite
The Arkansas small claims limit is five thousand dollars, with the district court general civil limit at twenty-five thousand. The commonly cited authority for the small claims figure is wrong.
Do not cite § 16-17-704 for the five thousand dollar limit. That section only delegates the setting of the limit to Supreme Court rule; it does not contain the figure. The correct authority is the Arkansas District Court Rules, Rule 10, read with Administrative Order No. 18. Note also that attorneys are barred from the small claims division, which matters if you are a landlord operating through a management company or intending to be represented.
How to Fill Out an Arkansas Three-Day Notice
Because Arkansas publishes no official form for the pre-suit notice, there is no state template to fall back on and no clerk to catch an error before you file. The notice is therefore the document most often defective in an Arkansas eviction. Work through these fields in order.
- Decide which statute you are acting under before you write a word. This is the step unique to Arkansas. Three days under § 18-60-304(3) is the civil unlawful detainer route; five days under § 18-17-701(b) is the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act route. The notice should name the one you have chosen, and the period must match it. A notice that gives three days while citing the Act, or five while citing the unlawful detainer statute, invites an argument that no valid notice was served at all.
- Name every tenant on the agreement. A notice addressed to one of two named tenants is contestable. Include occupants only if they signed.
- Identify the premises exactly as the agreement does, including the unit number. An address that does not match the lease invites an argument that the wrong premises were noticed.
- State the rent owed as a figure and identify the period it covers. Do not roll several months into an undifferentiated total, and do not fold in late fees unless the lease actually creates them — Arkansas supplies no statutory late fee, so an unsupported charge in the notice can be attacked as an overstatement of what is owed to cure.
- Count the period in calendar days. None of the three Arkansas nonpayment periods carries a business-day or exclusion qualifier. Count plainly, and do not import a weekend rule from another state.
- State the consequence — that the tenancy will be terminated and possession sought if the tenant does not pay or vacate within the period.
- Do not add days for mailing. Arkansas has no add-days-for-mailing rule. But because § 18-17-701(a)(1) runs the cure period from receipt, and no delivery method is prescribed anywhere, the risk of a notice going astray is entirely yours.
- Choose a delivery method you can prove. The Code names none, so this is a question of evidence rather than compliance. Hand delivery with a witness, or certified mail with return receipt alongside ordinary first-class mail, both give you a defensible date.
- Date it, sign it, and record how and when you delivered it. Keep the receipt. In a contested Arkansas case the delivery record is frequently the whole dispute, precisely because the statute supplies no presumption to fall back on.
The commonest Arkansas defect is a period borrowed from the wrong regime. Landlords read one page saying three days, another saying five, a third saying ten, and split the difference or pick the shortest. The safe practice is to choose your statutory route deliberately, name it in the notice, and count the period that route prescribes. If you are unsure which route fits, the civil three-day unlawful detainer path under § 18-60-304(3) is the mainstream one and the path our form is drafted for.
What Happens If the Form Is Wrong
Not every error is fatal, and it helps to know which are. A defect that shortens a tenant’s statutory period — a three-day notice served where the route you are actually pursuing requires five, or a complaint filed before the period expired — goes to your right to bring the action at all, and is the kind of problem that gets a case dismissed and restarted from day zero. A defect that lengthens a period, or gives the tenant more information than the statute requires, generally works in the tenant’s favour and creates no problem for the landlord.
Errors of identity sit in between. A misspelled name or a transposed unit number can usually be cured by amendment where it is obvious who and what was meant, but it hands the tenant an argument, and in a contested case that argument costs a hearing. The practical rule: an over-generous notice is safe, an under-generous notice is not, and an ambiguous notice is expensive. If you discover a defect before filing, serve a fresh notice and start the clock again rather than filing on a doubtful one.
What This Page Does Not Have
We would rather scope this honestly than promise documents we do not host. Arkansas landlords also commonly want a rental application, a sublease or assignment agreement, a rent receipt, and an abandoned-property notice. Those are not yet published as Arkansas-specific forms, and we have not linked placeholders for them. The forms listed above are the ones that exist, are fillable, and generate a real PDF.
Common Arkansas Landlord Form Mistakes
- Stating a single Arkansas nonpayment period. There are three, and which one applies depends on the route you choose.
- Publishing or relying on a twenty-four-hour entry rule. Arkansas has no entry notice statute at all.
- Using thirty days for the deposit return. It is sixty, under § 18-16-305 — and it runs from termination of the tenancy, not surrender of possession.
- Assuming the deposit rules apply to you. If you own five or fewer units and no agent manages for a fee, the subchapter does not apply.
- Treating the five-day RLTA notice as a grace period. It runs after rent is late.
- Counting the five-day objection window as business days. Only Sundays and legal holidays are excluded; Saturdays count.
- Expecting rent withholding or repair-and-deduct. Section 18-17-502(d) makes termination the tenant’s sole remedy.
- Citing § 16-17-704 for the small claims limit, or citing a section for the late-fee reasonableness rule. Neither carries what is claimed.
- Presenting the criminal failure-to-vacate route as settled. It is contested, unevenly enforced, and carries real risk.
Free Fillable Forms Versus the Paid Arkansas Form Sites
It is worth being direct about the alternatives, because the Arkansas results are dominated by pages that do not hand you a form. The deepest page in these results is a lease-packet product page. The largest landlord-association site ranks with roughly a dozen Arkansas form titles behind a membership wall and no Arkansas law on the page. The best-organised free index carries real form labels but no explanatory law at all.
Every form linked from this page is free, fills in the browser, and downloads as a finished PDF. There is no account, no trial, and no upsell attached to the documents themselves. What we ask in return is straightforward: if you are about to hand keys to someone, run the screening first, because nearly every dispute described on this page is cheaper to prevent than to litigate.
Arkansas Landlord Forms: FAQ
What forms are required to start an eviction in Arkansas?
A written notice — three days under § 18-60-304(3) for the civil unlawful detainer route, five days under § 18-17-701(b) under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, or fourteen days from receipt for a non-rent breach — and then an unlawful detainer complaint. Arkansas publishes no official eviction forms, so the complaint and notice are drafted rather than filled in.
What is the Arkansas notice period for nonpayment of rent?
There is no single period. Arkansas runs three overlapping regimes: three calendar days under the civil unlawful detainer statute, five days under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, and ten days under the criminal failure-to-vacate statute. Which applies depends on which route the landlord takes.
How much notice must an Arkansas landlord give before entering?
None is prescribed. Section 18-17-602 is drafted as a duty on the tenant not to unreasonably withhold consent and sets no notice period, no method and no reasonable-hours limit. Any twenty-four-hour figure published for Arkansas has no statutory basis, so the lease term governs instead.
What is the Arkansas security deposit cap?
Two months’ rent under § 18-16-304 — but only where the subchapter applies. Under § 18-16-303(a) it does not apply to a landlord owning five or fewer units, aggregating a spouse’s, minor children’s and controlled entities’ holdings, unless a third party manages the property for a fee.
How long does an Arkansas landlord have to return a deposit?
Sixty days from termination of the tenancy under § 18-16-305, with an itemised statement of deductions. The clock runs from termination rather than from surrender of possession. Unclaimed funds become the landlord’s after a further one hundred eighty days.
Can an Arkansas tenant recover double the deposit?
Yes, where the subchapter applies. Section 18-16-306 allows twice the amount wrongfully withheld plus costs and attorney’s fees, subject to two statutory defences: reasonable procedures adopted to avoid the error, and a good-faith dispute over the amount.
Is there a grace period or a late-fee cap in Arkansas?
Neither. The Code is silent on both, so a late fee is enforceable only if the lease creates it. The five-day period in § 18-17-701(b) is a notice period that runs after rent is already late, not a grace period, and the reasonableness requirement often quoted is common law rather than a Code section.
Can an Arkansas tenant withhold rent or repair and deduct?
No. Section 18-17-502 sets habitability standards for leases entered into on or after 1 November 2021, but subsection (d) makes the tenant’s sole remedy termination without penalty and recovery of the deposit, after thirty days’ written notice with rent current. There is no rent withholding, no repair-and-deduct and no damages action.
How much notice ends a month-to-month tenancy in Arkansas?
Thirty days under § 18-17-704, from either side. A week-to-week tenancy takes seven days. A wilful holdover exposes the tenant to up to three months’ rent or twice the actual damages, whichever is greater.
What is the Arkansas small claims limit for a deposit dispute?
Five thousand dollars, set by Arkansas District Court Rule 10 with Administrative Order No. 18 — not by § 16-17-704, which merely delegates the figure to Supreme Court rule. Attorneys are barred from the small claims division.
Is Arkansas failure to vacate still a crime?
Section 18-16-101 remains on the books and has never been struck down by an Arkansas appellate court, but it is genuinely contested: four circuit courts held it unconstitutional in 2015 at trial level only, a 2021 federal challenge was dismissed on mootness in 2022 rather than on the merits, and roughly half of counties decline to enforce it. The claim that it was struck down in 2023 has no primary support.
Is an oral lease enforceable in Arkansas?
Generally yes for a periodic tenancy, but it is a particularly poor idea in Arkansas. Because the Code is silent on entry, grace periods and late fees, the lease is the only source of those terms, so an oral agreement leaves a landlord with none of them.
Related Arkansas Guides
- Arkansas landlord-tenant laws — the full statutory overview.
- Arkansas eviction notice laws — the three regimes and the court timeline.
- Arkansas security deposit laws — the five-unit exemption and double damages.
- Arkansas lease termination laws — ending a tenancy without fault.
- Arkansas breaking lease laws — early termination and holdover damages.
- Arkansas rent increase laws — why Arkansas has no rent control.
- Arkansas late fee laws — enforceability and returned payments.
- Arkansas landlord entry laws — what § 18-17-602 does and does not do.
- Arkansas habitability laws — Act 1052 and the single remedy.
- Arkansas pet and ESA laws — pet deposits and assistance animals.
- Arkansas tenant screening laws — background checks and adverse action.
Published by Tenant Screening Background Check · Editorial Team
Established 2004. Our editorial team has spent two decades helping landlords and property managers run lawful tenant screening and follow state landlord-tenant codes across all fifty states. For this page we worked from the Arkansas Code itself and from the Administrative Office of the Courts forms index, rather than from secondary summaries — several of which state a single Arkansas notice period, publish an entry rule Arkansas never enacted, and give thirty days for a deposit return that the Code sets at sixty.
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Last reviewed 2026. This page is general information about Arkansas landlord-tenant law, not legal advice. Arkansas runs several overlapping statutory regimes, at least one of which is subject to unresolved constitutional challenge, and filing fees carry local surcharges. Confirm the current requirements with the clerk of the court where you intend to file or with an Arkansas attorney before you serve a notice or file a case.
