
- 544 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Every Landlord's Legal Guide
About this book
The legal forms and state rules every landlord and property manager needs
To keep up with the law and make money as a residential landlord, you need a guide you can trust: Every Landlord's Legal Guide.
From move-in to move-out, here's help with legal, financial, and day-to-day issues. You'll avoid hassles and headaches?not to mention legal fees and lawsuits. Use this top-selling book to:
- screen and choose tenants
- prepare leases and rental agreements
- avoid discrimination, invasion of privacy, personal injury, and other lawsuits
- hire a property manager
- keep up with repairs and maintenance
- make security deposit deductions
- handle broken leases
- learn how to terminate a tenancy for nonpayment of rent or other lease violations
- restrict tenants from renting their place on Airbnb, and
- deal with bed bugs, mold, and lead hazards.
The 17th edition is completely revised to provide your state's current laws, covering deposits, rent, entry, termination, late rent notices, and more.
With Downloadable Forms:
Includes access to more than 30 essential legal forms, including a lease and rental agreement, rental application, notice of entry, tenant repair request, security deposit itemization, property manager agreement, and more.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Your Landlord Companion
- 1. Screening Tenants:
- 2. Preparing Leases and Rental Agreements
- 3. Basic Rent Rules
- 4. Security Deposits
- 5. Discrimination
- 6. Property Managers
- 7. Getting the Tenant Moved In
- 8. Cotenants, Sublets, and Assignments
- 9. Landlord’s Duty to Repair and Maintain the Premises
- 10. Landlord’s Liability for Tenant Injuries From Dangerous Conditions
- 11. Landlord’s Liability for Environmental Health Hazards
- 12. Landlord’s Liability for Criminal Activity
- 13. Landlord’s Right of Entry and Tenants’ Privacy
- 14. Ending a Tenancy
- 15. Returning Security Deposits and Other Move-Out Issues
- 16. Problems With Tenants: How to Resolve Disputes Without a Lawyer
- 17. Late Rent, Terminations, and Evictions
- 18. Lawyers and Legal Research
- Appendix A: State Landlord-Tenant Law Charts
- Appendix B: How to Use the Downloadable Forms on the Nolo Website
- Index
- Book Registration