Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Every Landlord's Legal Guide

Every Landlord's Legal Guide

Every Landlord's Legal Guide


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


  • Editorial Reviews

    Amazon.com
    Anyone who has ever been a landlord knows that the rental business is tightly regulated. As the authors of Every Landlord's Legal Guide point out, "a landlord either knows and follows the law or doesn't stay in business long." This book clearly outlines what the law requires of a landlord and, just as importantly, offers advice on how to be conscientious yet profitable. This useful book is filled with helpful information on finding good tenants, agreements and leases, liability issues, and even terminations and evictions. The advice is extremely thorough. For example, the chapter on the landlord's maintenance duties contains information on who is responsible for minor repairs, ways to avoid problems by instituting a preventive-maintenance program, and even possible tenant responses to landlord negligence. The book is rounded out with a chapter on finding a lawyer and an appendix of state laws that may affect your business. Dozens of sample forms are included both as blank hard copies in the book and as templates on the enclosed disk. This book is extremely user-friendly: Stilted legalese is translated into simple English, handy icons highlight particular points in the text, and sidebars provide in-depth analysis on a variety of issues. The authors maintain that success is based on "choosing tenants carefully, keeping good tenants happy, teaching mediocre tenants how to improve and getting rid of bad tenants by applying policies that are strict, fair and legal." This book will help you do just that. --C.B. Delaney

    From Library Journal
    This new title is a thorough and pragmatic examination of the legal issues that confront landlords of residential real property. In 17 chapters, it covers such topics as rent, discrimination, working with property managers, landlord liability, tenants, privacy rights, and security deposits. The chapters summarize the law and explain it with true-to-life illustrations. Icons are used to point out a practical tip, a question that might need a lawyer's interpretation, or an instance in which a rent-control ordinance might apply. The book is liberally sprinkled with sample agreements, letters, and lists of specific state requirements with regard to landlord/tenant laws. Forms to help with rent applications, tenant references, security deposit itemization, and safety and maintenance updates, to name a few, appear in print at the end of the book and on an accompanying 3.5" DOS-based computer disk. Every Landlord's Legal Guide makes plain the important legal concepts and provides real guidance for landlords. Recommended for most public libraries.?Joan Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, N.Y.
    Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

    Robert Bruss, nationally syndicated columnist
    "On my scale of one to 10, it rates an off-the-chart 12."

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