Leases & Rental Agreements

by Janet Portman Attorney, Ann O'Connell Attorney

Overview

Essential rental forms, including a legally-compliant lease, that every landlord needs

Small residential landlords face the choice of hiring expensive lawyers to write leases and forms, or buying generic forms online or from big box stationery stores.

Here is an alternative: A lease and associated forms that, when used in conjunction with the law charts in the back of the book, result in leases and agreements that will pass legal muster.

Don’t guess at the law—use Nolo’s resources to get it right.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781413331264
Publisher:	NOLO
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Edition description:	Fifteenth Edition
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	150,924
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Nolo's Executive Editor, Janet Portman oversees editorial work on all Nolo books, articles, and websites. She specializes in residential and commercial landlord/tenant law, legal issues related to courts, and criminal law. She is the author or a coauthor of Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants, First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-Family Home, Every Tenant's Legal Guide, Renters' Rights, Leases & Rental Agreements, The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights and Responsibilities, and California Tenants' Rights. Portman received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford Universityand a law degree from Santa Clara UniversitySchool of Law. Before joining Nolo in 1994, she practiced law as a public defender.

Ann O’Connell is a legal editor at Nolo specializing in landlord-tenant and real estate law. Before joining Nolo as an editor, Ann was a freelance writer for Nolo and other publications and law firms. She has passed the bar exams in California, Nevada, and Colorado, where she is both an active attorney and a real estate broker. Ann practiced civil litigation in California and Colorado, and had her own firm in Colorado. At her firm, she focused on real estate, landlord-tenant, and small business cases. Ann earned her B.A. from Boston College and her J.D. from UC Berkeley Law.

Table of Contents

Your Lease and Rental Documents Companion 1. Preparing a Lease or Rental Agreement 2. Choosing Tenants: Your Most Important Decision 3. Getting the Tenant Moved In 4. Changing or Ending a Tenancy Appendixes A. State Landlord-Tenant Law Charts B. How to Use the Downloadable Forms on the Nolo Website C. Form Index

Interviews

Every landlord should be buying Every Landlord’s Legal Guide, our big and expensive book that includes a lease and seventeen additional chapters on everything from discrimination to terminating a tenancy. But not every landlord will buy it! For those who want just a lease and that’s all, thank you very much, this little book is for them. The alternative is a stationery-store form that is guaranteed to not comply with your state’s law, setting the stage for legal problems down the road. Start things right with a legal lease.

Editorial Reviews

"On my scale of one to 10, this excellent book rates a solid 10." Robert Bruss, real estate attorney and nationally syndicated columnist

"A comprehensive look at state and federal laws governing landlord-tenant relations. Recommended..." Library Journal

From the Author: Every landlord should be buying Every Landlord’s Legal Guide, our big book that includes a lease and seventeen additional chapters on everything from discrimination to terminating a tenancy. But not every landlord will buy it! For those who want just a lease and that’s all, thank you very much, this little book is for them. The alternative is a stationery-store form that is guaranteed to not comply with your state’s law, setting the stage for legal problems down the road. Start things right with a legal lease.

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