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Every Landlord's Legal Guide |  | Authors: Marcia Stewart, Ralph Warner Attorney, Janet Portman Attorney
Publisher: NOLO
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 9th
Pages: 504
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Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 1413308562
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.730434
EAN: 9781413308563
ASIN: 1413308562
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
This is a practical, well-organized manual for how to be a good landlord and avoid some of the pitfalls of owning rental property. Sample leases and rental agreements, information about liability, discrimination, repairs, and maintenance, and how to deal with problem tenants fairly and legally are all contained in here. Maybe if more landlords read this book, more tenants would feel like they and the owner are not intrinsic adversaries. Even though we get along quite well, and have for the last 22 years, I lent my copy to my landlord--for the other tenants' sakes!
Product Description
An all-in-one authoritative guide every landlord needs
Every Landlord's Legal Guide is the most comprehensive and up-to-date legal and practical guide for residential landlords. The best, most effective way to make and save money as a landlord is to keep up with the law --and with Every Landlord's Legal Guide, you can do all that and more.
From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues , including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants, environmental hazards such as mold and bed bugs (yes, bed bugs). You'll find legal and practical solutions backed by many 50-state charts with specific laws for each state. This complete resource will help you avoid hassles and headaches -- not to mention legal fees.
Here is everything you need to:
choose tenants
prepare a lease or rental agreement
collect and return deposits
avoid discrimination charges
hire a property manager
keep up with repairs and maintenance
minimize liability
deal with problem tenants
and more
Every Landlord's Legal Guide provides over 30 forms you'll need, including leases and rental agreements on the included CD-ROM.
The 9th edition is completely revised with updated information, and discusses new developments in domestic violence protections for tenants.
Landlord Forms Library on CD-ROM
Screening, Choosing, and Rejecting Applicants
Rental Application
Consent to Contact References and Perform Credit Check
Tenant References
Notice of Denial Based on Credit Report or Other Information
Notice of Conditional Acceptance Based on Credit Report or Other Information
Rental Documents and Moving In
Receipt and Holding Deposit Agreement
Landlord-Tenant Checklist
Move-In Letter
Month-to-Month Residential Rental Agreement
Month-to-Month Residential Rental Agreement (Spanish Version)
Fixed-Term Residential Lease
Fixed-Term Residential Lease (Spanish Version)
Cosigner Agreement
Disclosure of Information on Lead-Based Paint and/or Lead-Based Paint Hazards
Disclosure of Information on Lead-Based Paint and/or Lead-Based Paint Hazards (Spanish Version)
Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home Pamphlet
Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home Pamphlet (Spanish Version)
Property Manager Agreement
Verification of Disabled Status
Rental Documents during the Rental Term
Amendment to Lease or Rental Agreement
Letter to Original Tenant and New Cotenant
Consent to Assignment of Lease
Agreement for Delayed or Partial Rent Payments
Repairs and Maintenance
Time Estimate for Repair
Semiannual Safety and Maintenance Update
Agreement Regarding Tenant Alterations to Rental Unit
Notice of Intent to Enter Dwelling Unit
Resident's Maintenance/Repair Request
Handling and Returning Security Deposits
Letter for Returning Entire Security Deposit
Security Deposit Itemization (Deductions for Repairs and Cleaning)
Security Deposit Itemization (Deductions for Repairs, Cleaning, and Unpaid Rent)
Terminating Tenancies
Tenant's Notice of Intent to Move Out
Landlord-Tenant Agreement to Terminate Lease
Move-Out Letter
Warning Letter for Lease or Rental Agreement Violation
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 Very useful July 22, 2010
B. W. Fairbanks (Lakewood, OH United States)
I am not a landlord. However, I have a landlord (an excellent one), and if this book could be useful to him, I figured it could be useful to me, too. And who knows what the future holds? Maybe I'll be a landlord someday.
This is a very useful book spelling out just about everything a landlord needs to know to deal with tenants, fairly and legally, and to avoid unforseen pitfalls of owning a rental property. For a tenant like myself, it's useful in seeing things from the other side of the fence.
Brian W. Fairbanks
 A lifesaver July 15, 2010
webebuyers (Indiana)
It pays (or saves you money) to know ahead of time how to protect yourself and what is expected of you legally as a landlord. This guide will help you avoid many pitfalls and make you a better landlord to your renters!
Not every landlord is perfect but not every tenant is either... July 9, 2010
Maria Poole (Southeast)
and one needs to be prepared. I have been privy to quite a few situations not only from my parent's businesses but also from working for a property management company. This book is written for the layman and that is what makes it so useful and cost effective. Unfortunately nightmare tenants do exist...rent the movie "Pacific Heights" for an extreme example. In the reality I have experienced one needs to know the ins and outs of the law. The last thing you want is to be sued by a tenant that you are trying to evict. The information in this book and the forms provided for download may very well prove to be priceless.
Looking for Another Tenant Like the Last One July 8, 2010
Ronald Hammond (Key West, FL USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My wife and I bought a house with a rental in back. And it was occupied, the rental was. Grace was a girl in her junior year of college on a year lease. When the lease was up, she said she didn't know how long she'd stay, so could we convert her to month to month. We did and she stayed for five more years, not moving out till she got married. That was our only experience of renting. We had the perfect tenant who wound up being one of our best friends.
So now we have that rental back there, empty, forlorn and alone, plus it's not paying it's fair share of our mortgage. We need a new tenant. But how can we ever replace Grace? How can we ever be so lucky again? We put a sign in the window and you won't believe the kind of people who knocked on our door. We took the sign down. Then I bought this book.
Did you know you have to be very careful when you reject possible tenants, for a variety of reasons? You could get sued! Who knew? Plus there's potential liabilities with a rental, we never worried about that with Grace. Okay, we're not big time landlords, we just have that small rental in back, but even that can get you in a lot of trouble if you don't have the right person in it. What if we had somebody in there who set up a meth lab, or a serial killer, you have to be careful, you have to screen your tenants. We'd been lucky with Grace, she didn't cook up drugs, she didn't kill people, she even took care of all the minor repairs.
So now that we've gone through the book we feel like we're ready to try our hand at a new tenant. We're not going to insist on a lease, though if we did there's a good lease agreement in both English and Spanish on the included CD. There's also a good month to month rental agreement, which we're going to use. Plus, we've decided to only advertise on bulletin boards at the University.
Back to the book, this is a well organized book that is easy to understand. It points out all the the pitfalls a potential landlord can get into and tells you how to avoid them. Plus the included CD has all the forms a landlord might ever need. If you've got rentals, you can't go wrong with this book.
excellent nonprofessional overview July 5, 2010
Konrad Baumeister
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All of Nolo's legal guides are written with the non-licensed, non-professional practitioner in mind. They are logically laid out, written in the simplest and most direct terms, and eminently useful; and this Landlord's Guide is no exception. Each prospective landlord, from one renting the other half of a duplex up to the owner of hundreds of units, ought to own it, read it at least once, and have it handy to refer to on a regular basis.
The safest practices in landlording start before a property is listed, and continue through tenant selection, documenting each step of the pre-occupancy and occupancy thoroughly and correctly, and being fair but firm in application of all policies. Each area of the ownership and practice of apartment leasing is broken down, with multiple examples given for illustration, and references for further information included.
Property ownership and leasing has become a legal minefield, and it's made worse by the differing laws and practices from state to state. This guide gives links to applicable websites and legal codes for each state, covering such items as security deposits, timelines for notices, evictions, duty to rent, etc etc.
Finally, the accompanying CD gives dozens of eminently useful forms, in Word (rtf) and pdf formats, many of them also in Spanish. The use of these forms, and how to utilize them, is fully explained in the guide, and the forms themselves, if used properly, are well worth the cost of the book.
Landlords often don't think carefully about their procedures until they have a problem on their hands, often a costly one that may or may not end up in court. Early reference to this handy and easily understood guide will help head off many of these issues, and the book is highly recommended.
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