How to Choose a Printable Lease Agreement
If you've got a residential property that you'd like to rent out, ensure you get tenants to sign a lease agreement that outlines the terms and conditions. Use a printable lease agreement to cover the legalities to protect your interests, investment and property. Consider these tips to choose a printable lease agreement to suit your needs.
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Visit websites that offer printable lease agreements that are state specific to ensure your lease agreements will have all of the required disclosures and clauses. Sites such as Ezlandlordforms.com also offer additional landlord forms like applications, addendums, notices to tenants and violation notices.
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Consider a service that allows you to build your own lease agreement forms to include clauses or special circumstances that pertain to your location or rental property or that reflect special agreements you've developed with your tenant. Companies like LawDepot.com help you build a rental agreement for an apartment, condominium, house, basement and other types of property and has a full-time legal analysts on staff to answer questions.
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Try a free printable lease agreement if you just want to draft a simple lease that covers such basic conditions as security deposits and damages, subletting, pets, utilities, property maintenance and the surrender of the premises. Get free printable lease agreements from sites like DocStoc.com, Freebies4ya.com and AllLaw.com.
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Ensure the printable lease agreement covers consequences for lease violations such as early termination, violation of other tenants' "right of quiet enjoyment" or damage to the property since these sections of the rental agreement will most likely protect your interests in the event of a tenant/landlord dispute.
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Tips & Warnings
Consider having a real estate attorney look over the printable lease agreement to ensure all of the terminology and clauses are legal and compliant with your state and local laws that regulate the terms of rental agreements.
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kagee
Mar 13, 2009
I work at a real estate office and we cannot give out a copy of our lease. I will keep this info to pass on for people coming to the office looking for freebie forms. Thank you.
