(d) For the purposes of this section if a
tenant is absent from the dwelling unit for a continuous period of twenty days
or more without written notice to the landlord the tenant shall be deemed to
have wrongfully quit the dwelling unit; provided that the tenant shall not be
considered to be absent from the dwelling unit without notice to the landlord
during any period for which the landlord has received payment of rent. In
addition to any other right or remedy the landlord has with respect to such a tenant
the landlord may retain the entire amount of any security deposit the landlord
has received from or on behalf of such tenant.
(e) The landlord shall not require the
delivery of any postdated check or other negotiable instrument to be used for
payment of rent.
(f) If the landlord who required and received
a security deposit transfers the landlord's interest in the dwelling unit,
whether by sale, assignment, death, appointment of a receiver, or otherwise,
the landlord's successor in interest is bound by this section. The original
landlord shall provide an accounting of the security deposits received for each
dwelling unit to the landlord's successor at or before the time of the transfer
of the landlord's interest; within twenty days thereafter the landlord's
successor shall give written notice to each tenant of the amount of the
security deposit credited to the tenant. In the event the landlord's successor
fails to satisfy the requirements of this subsection, it shall be presumed that
the tenant has paid a security deposit equal to no less than one month's rent
at the rate charged when the tenant originally rented the dwelling unit and the
landlord's successor shall be bound by this amount in all further matters
relating to the security deposit.