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Missouri rental application rules to know

• •Missouri sets no statewide cap on rental application or screening fees and requires no receipt, refund, or disclosure, so ask what the fee covers before you pay.
• •Security deposits are capped at two months' rent (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 535.300).
• •A landlord must return your deposit, or deliver a written itemized list of deductions with the balance, within 30 days after the tenancy ends; if any part is wrongfully withheld, you can recover twice the amount wrongfully withheld (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 535.300).
• •Any interest earned on your security deposit belongs to the landlord, and Missouri does not require landlords to pay deposit interest to tenants (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 535.300).
• •Source of income is not a protected class in Missouri, and a 2025 state law (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 441.043) bars cities and counties from requiring landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers or from restricting how they use credit, eviction, or criminal history, overriding earlier ordinances in Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia.
• •The Missouri Human Rights Act (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 213.040) adds ancestry to the seven federal protected classes, and some cities (including St. Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia) also ban housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
• •Missouri has no statewide fair-chance-in-housing law, so landlords may ask about and consider criminal history, though blanket criminal bans can still create Fair Housing Act disparate-impact liability.
• •Missouri has no statute capping residential late fees and no statute governing routine entry during the tenancy, though written notice of the final move-out inspection is required (§ 535.300); other entry terms are governed by what your lease says.

Last reviewed 2026-07-15. General information, not legal advice.