Timeline for Security Deposit term (whether it is legal) in Rental Agreement in US

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May 21, 2016 at 17:20	history	edited	user6726	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 2103 characters in body
May 21, 2016 at 14:44	comment	added	wind_wings		I don't believe in her. She said it is a landlord-tenant account which will be given to me directly after I left. But it is just "she said".
May 21, 2016 at 14:36	comment	added	wind_wings		I signed on a table which may be used to set a landlord-tenant account at first (that after about 2 months I moved in). On the next day, I argued with landlord because of some other stuffs. Several days later, she said that table was not enough and I must signed on a W-9 table. She forwarded me an email from Merrill Edge. Considering the recent quarrel and because I don't know she must save the deposits into a separated account at that time (I still don't know whether I must sign the table now), I suggested that she don't need to do it since I don't want to sign it.
May 21, 2016 at 4:22	comment	added	user6726		A separate agreement to set aside a provision of the law is covered in subsection 8: "shall be deemed to be against public policy and therefore void and unenforceable". Mass. law on those accounts is different from WA law so I may have a hard time getting details: you raise an interesting point about tenant non-cooperation in setting up an account.
May 21, 2016 at 1:46	comment	added	wind_wings		I know that a security deposit must be deposited in a separate account. But months ago, the landlord asked me (and my roommate) to sign an agreement (say we agreed that she did not put the deposit into the bank) since I refused to sign W-9 table (it is not BOA but Merrill Edge, and I don't know what she would like to do). Is such an agreement illegal no not? Thanks for you help.
May 20, 2016 at 15:02	history	answered	user6726	CC BY-SA 3.0