If you want to go right to the source and look up Pennsylvania law on security deposits -- or if you're writing a letter to your landlord or tenant and want to cite the applicable law -- the relevant statute(s) can be found at Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Annotated Title 68 §§ 250.511a to 250.512.

I also keep some deep lines of unsecured credit cards in reserve.Quick Tip: If you keep your loans, consider consolidating your loans to a 25 year term loan. 

The ones in my area will consolidate all my houses into one lump secured loan.  

I wish I could refinance them at under 4 percent (or even 5), but when I have looked at consolidation, they just consolidate under a weighted average of existing interest rates, so the savings is minimal and then the debt is lumped into one big loan rather than a bunch of small ones that you can chip away at and reduce your monthly obligation as you go.

This seems to be a like-kind "consolidation".

With that i would also be wary of the school consolidation effort, that could take a hurt on tax bill with an assessed value that high, just food for thought

I am an orthopedic surgery resident in Chattanooga but will be consolidating funds after training and investing in this surrounding area.

All three units are currently occupied, but I want to start preparing for when I have my next vacancy that instead of renting it out, I can use the space myself for a new business, and perhaps down the line consolidate all three units if necessary.

@Masashi Borges-Silva did you consolidate your student loans?

@Drew Mim Mack Structuring a consolidation 1031 exchange is not difficult as long as you pay close attention to your overlapping time frames.