About

Who we are

Landlord Dispatch is written by the friend who has the statute open while you talk. We read the whole bill so the Card is all you read: what changed, who it reaches, when it starts, and the text the state signed, linked. We quote the state and do not argue with it, and we name who is outside a law as plainly as who is inside it. Every issue is dated and sent from one desk to eight states, and it says what we checked, what we did not, and where a source would not answer. When nothing changed in your state we say so, in the same place and the same type as news. We are not lawyers and we never tell you what to do; we tell you what the words say, the day they bite, and what to find or count before then. The joke, when there is one, is on the wording, never on a person, and never on you.

We are not the government and we are not a law firm. We read what they write.

Who runs it

Landlord Dispatch is run by Alex Vita in Bucharest, Romania. Write to hello@landlorddispatch.com.

How an item gets in

A law gets a Card once it is signed and on the legislature’s own record, never before. Its start date is read from the law’s own text: the date clause when it has one, the state’s constitutional default when it does not, and the Card says which. The legislature’s text is the source; associations, law firms and software guides are a cross-check and never a source.

What counts: a signed law, and anything else final and binding statewide, which means a governor’s emergency order, a court rule change, an adopted regulation, a voter-approved measure, a yearly cap. A federal change gets one line in the Every state slot. Never a bill, never a proposed rule, never a city or county ordinance.

What we check, and what we do not

The check before a wave issue differs by state, so each state’s page says what was read, what was not, and through what date. Where a source would not answer, the issue says Could not check in the place All clear would sit.

A check proves what is in the issue is right. It cannot prove nothing was missed, which is why every list ends with: Missed one?

Drafted with AI tools, approved by a person

Software reads the legislatures’ records and drafts each Card from the enacted text. A person reads every issue, checks each number, date, section and quote against that text, and approves it or sends it back. Nothing goes out on its own. The person is the editor, and the byline is the letter’s name.

Corrections

Write to hello@landlorddispatch.com, or reply to any issue; a person reads it. When we are wrong, the fix is a dated correction line under the issue in the archive and a line in the next issue, never a silent edit. A signed law we missed is the reply we most want.

What we will never do

• Tell you what to do about your own lease, tenant or notice. That is advice, and we are not lawyers; the footer says it in full.
• Say whether a law is good. We quote it.
• List a bill as a law. Filed is not signed, and passed is not signed.
• Name a reader, a tenant or an owner in a court story. Roles in the story, the case name in the citation line.
• Carry an AI-made image, a seal or a flag.