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Missouri · Carpet cleaning

Can my landlord charge for carpet cleaning in Missouri?

By housr editorsSources checked 2026-10-05 · legal review pending
The short answerMo. Rev. Stat. §535.300(4)(2)
Missouri lets a lease set carpet-cleaning amounts, with a receipt for the actual cost due within 30 days of the end of the tenancy.

“…this subdivision does not preclude a landlord and tenant from agreeing, in the rental agreement between them, upon amounts or fees to be charged for cleaning of the carpet, and such amounts actually expended for carpet cleaning can be withheld from the security deposit… Within thirty days of the end of the tenancy, the landlord shall provide the tenant a receipt for the actual carpet cleaning costs…”

Work out a prorated estimate

Age when you moved out2 years
new12+ yrs
Use the age of the item, not of your tenancy. Your move-in report or lease may say when it was installed.
No sourced useful life yetWe haven't found a published useful-life figure for carpet cleaning that we can cite, so we don't pre-fill one. Enter a life you can support: a manufacturer's warranty, the product page, or a figure from your lease.

Enter what you were charged.

How it's worked out: charge × (useful life − age) ÷ useful life. It is a prorated estimate using a useful life you can see and change; your state, your lease or a court may treat the charge differently. Most deposit statutes we've read exclude normal or ordinary wear and tear; your state's page quotes its rule.

Open the demand letter

Useful life: what we can cite

We haven't found a published useful-life figure for carpet cleaning that we can cite, so Fair Charge asks you for one instead of assuming it. A manufacturer's warranty or product page is a reasonable place to start; label it as yours when you use it.

See the full useful-life table and how Fair Charge works.

What your state says

Missouri has a rule on this

Missouri lets a lease set carpet-cleaning amounts, with a receipt for the actual cost due within 30 days of the end of the tenancy.

“…this subdivision does not preclude a landlord and tenant from agreeing, in the rental agreement between them, upon amounts or fees to be charged for cleaning of the carpet, and such amounts actually expended for carpet cleaning can be withheld from the security deposit… Within thirty days of the end of the tenancy, the landlord shall provide the tenant a receipt for the actual carpet cleaning costs…”

Mo. Rev. Stat. §535.300(4)(2)The Missouri page for this charge
Wear and tear in Missouri
We haven’t summarised this state’s wear-and-tear language yet. The statute is linked below.
Itemization
A written itemized list of damages, with the balance.
Statute text checked 2026-10-05 · legal review pending

Sources

  1. Mo. Rev. Stat. §535.300(4)(2)
  2. Cal. Civ. Code §1950.5(e)(2)(C)
  3. ORS 90.300(7)(c)(A)
  4. RCW 59.18.280(1)(c)
  5. Cal. Civ. Code §1950.5(h)(1) (wear and tear)
  6. Tex. Prop. Code §92.103, §92.107 (wear and tear)
  7. N.Y. Gen. Oblig. Law §7-108(1-a) (wear and tear)
  8. RCW 59.18.280 (wear and tear)

Information, not legal advice. A prorated estimate is not a legal limit on what can be charged.