State and municipality law dictates when and if landlords must hold a tenant's security deposit in an interest-bearing escrow account. Many states don’t require security deposits be held in escrow.

it can be difficult to save up enough money to put a security deposit down somewhere else. So that's an unfortunate reality that a lot of people in Alberta are facing." Lund said tenants are often ...

Alberta's energy regulator is boosting the ... the regulator oversees will now be asked to pay the required security deposit. If they don't, the ERCB has the power to take enforcement measuring ...