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


• respond to 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 updated to provide your state's current laws on security deposits, rent, entry, termination, late rent notices, and more. It also provides tips and guidance to help landlords navigate new state and local laws on screening tenants.

Attorneys Ann O'Connell, a Nolo editor and real estate broker, and Janet Portman, Nolo's Executive Editor, specialize in landlord-tenant law. Together, they are also co-authors of Leases and Rental Agreements and Every Tenant's Legal Guide.

Renters have many legal rights--

learn yours and how to protect them!

The only book of its kind, Every Tenant's Legal Guide gives you the legal and practical information you need (plus dozens of sample letters and forms) to find a great rental and landlord.

Learn your rights regarding pets, guests, deposits, and privacy, and find out how to:

- notify your landlord about needed repairs and use rent withholding or repair-and-deduct if you have to

- avoid disputes with roommates over rent, deposits, guests, and noise

- fight illegal discrimination, retaliation, or sexual harassment

- navigate state and local rent control laws

- deal with hazards like lead paint, mold, and bed bugs

- break a lease with minimum liability, and

- get your security deposit returned on time.

The 11th edition of Every Tenant's Legal Guide includes charts detailing every state's landlord-tenant laws. This edition also includes information on how to deal with large, impersonal corporate landlords and the competitive rental markets found in nearly every state.

Sooner or later it will happen ...

The landlord ignores your repair requests. Your roommates are once again late with their share of the rent. Your upstairs neighbors party all the time. The landlord won't return your security deposit. How can you deal with these problems--and others--or prevent them from happening at all? Turn to Renters' Rights if you need to:

• break a lease and leave early

• sublet your apartment

• deal with unwelcome landlord intrusions

• resolve a dispute with your roommate

• get your landlord to make repairs

• collect your full security deposit when you move out

• fight discrimination or retaliation, and

The 11th edition is completely updated to reflect changes to state laws and federal antidiscrimination laws. It also includes advice on how to deal with corporate landlords and property managers.

Are you a California resident? Check out California's Tenants' Rights

The go-to survival guide for California tenants

California tenants have many rights, especially those lucky enough to have rent control. But knowing and enforcing these rights can be difficult. Fortunately, California Tenants' Rights, the leading tenant guide for over 50 years, provides all the information and key forms tenants need to:

• find a good rental in a competitive market
• understand the rules regarding service and support animals
• deal with a problem roommate or noisy neighbor
• stop landlord intrusions of privacy
• get the landlord to make repairs or deal with mold or bed bugs
• fight illegal discrimination, harassment, or retaliation
• break a lease with minimal liability
• respond to a late rent or termination notice
• get as much of the deposit back as possible, and
• fight an eviction, with line-by-line instructions on completing required forms.

The 24th edition includes updated information on state eviction rules and forms, local and statewide rent control ordinances, and additional anti-discrimination protections.

The ultimate property management guide for the do-it-yourself landlord!

Written for the millions of landlords who own a single-family home, condo, or small (fewer than four units) rental property, Every Landlord's Guide to Managing Property covers everyday skills a hands-on landlord needs, including how to:

• retain good, long-term tenants

• handle nitty-gritty maintenance such as snow removal,

  toilet clogs, and painting

• avoid conflicts over late rent, unauthorized roommates,

  and move-out procedures
  

• limit costly tenant turnover and vacancies

• manage condos and deal with association restrictions

• track income and expenses and prepare for tax time

• hire and work with repairpersons, lawyers, and other contractors, and
  
• balance landlording with a day job or other pursuits.

This edition is completely updated to cover the latest issues affecting small-scale landlords, including updates to tax laws, new tools (online and offline) for managing rentals, and advice on incorporating rental properties into a side hustle or FIRE strategy.

The legal information and forms every California landlord needs

Choosing tenants, raising the rent, returning deposits, and maintaining rental property--these are just a few of the things landlords do that are strictly regulated by California law. To avoid problems and hefty legal fees, rental property owners and managers need to know and comply with federal, state, and local rules, and use the proper legal forms. Fortunately, everything you need is in this book.

Rent control and eviction protections are blossoming throughout California, with new state-wide protections and even small municipalities enacting local ordinances that affect rent, terminations, and notices. This book contains a unique rent control chart that explains key provisions and gives information on how to learn more. No California landlord can afford to do business without checking for local ordinances and following them.

With The California
Landlord's Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities you'll
learn how to:

• screen
  prospective tenants--without discriminating illegally

• prepare (and enforce) leases and rental
  agreements

• determine
  whether the state-wide rent control and eviction protection

  law applies to your property

• collect
  and return security deposits

• raise
  the rent and change other terms of the tenancy

• hire,
  work with, and fire property managers

• keep
  up with repairs and maintenance

• restrict
  subletting and short-term rentals

• act
  promptly when rent is late, and

• terminate
  a tenancy.

Now updated for today's bullish real estate market, this is the go-to, classic entrepreneurial guide for landlords and real estate investors who want to buy and manage rental properties for long-term wealth.

There's never been a better time for buying rental properties--interest rates are low and credit is more freely available to those who want to buy and invest. But where does one begin?

With more than twenty plus years of experience in real estate and as the founder of The Landlord Property Management Academy, Bryan M. Chavis knows all phases and aspects of working with rental properties. In Buy It, Rent It, Profit! he explains why rental properties are such a wise investment in today's real estate world and outlines the steps and systems you need to implement to become a successful landlord and property manager.

This updated edition of the modern classic includes advice on being a profitable and professional landlord, protecting your investment, learning what types of property you should be purchasing, and adapting to the ever-changing world of technology in real estate. Chavis also provides systems on how to attract quality tenants, negotiate lease agreements, collect rent, finance a mortgage, and manage the property overall--everything you need to become a smart, profitable, and professional property manager.

In addition, this updated edition features a workbook section with easy-to-use, universal forms for leases, evictions, property evaluations, and more. Buy It, Rent It, Profit! is the ultimate how-to procedures manual for buying and managing rental properties and a practical, realistic tool you can follow to become a profitable landlord and property manager.

Your step-by-step guide to evicting a problem tenant in California

Sooner or later, nearly every residential landlord has to evict a tenant for nonpayment of rent, property damage, an illegal sublet (including Airbnb), or another violation of the lease or the law.

You don't always need to hire a lawyer, but you do need reliable information, particularly if your property is under rent control. Here, you'll find all of the downloadable forms you need along with clear, step-by-step instructions on how to:

prepare nonpayment of rent notices

prepare 3-, 30-, 60-, and 90-day notices

complete and serve all required eviction forms

deal with tenants' delaying tactics, and

file your unlawful detainer complaint in court.

Just filing an eviction lawsuit often prompts the tenant to leave. If it doesn't, you'll learn how to:

handle a contested eviction suit by yourself--and know when to get professional help

respond to a tenant's defenses and claims

evict a tenant who has filed for bankruptcy or is occupying property you purchased at a foreclosure sale, and

collect unpaid rent after you win.

With Downloadable Forms
Get more than 30 forms, including all of the official California forms required to successfully complete an eviction, plus forms for collecting a money judgment and handling contested cases.

This handy reference provides a simple understanding of how Florida's Landlord-Tenant Law works. Everything you need to know whether you are an owner or a renter in the Sunshine State. Told in simple, easy-to-follow language, business attorney Al Kelley gives you all the basics.

Howdy, landlord! Get on the right side of the law with Dummies

Landlord's Legal Kit For Dummies contains all the resources landlords need to unpack the legal side of renting properties. Inside you'll find worksheets, templates, and friendly explanations that will help you find success. Once you have your property and your tenants, you'll need to make sure you operate within your rights, complete all the necessary admin, and handle taxes in an accurate and timely way. This book can help you do just that, with the latest paperwork, helpful details and examples, and a breakdown of taxes and laws. Plus, you can go beyond the book by accessing online documents that take your learning to the next level.

• Understand all the latest housing laws that pertain to your specific rental situation
• Find drafts of all the legal forms you'll need as a landlord
• Access easy-to-use tax worksheets and clear descriptions of tax rules without legal jargon
• Recognize your rights as a landlord and understand your tenants' rights

This is the perfect Dummies guide for both new and experienced landlords who need a hands-on legal reference for all the laws surrounding rent, rental properties, and tenants.

Informative, instructive, and eye-opening, this book provides clear steps for identifying mold and getting rid of it. This handbook is extremely helpful for both landlords and tenants in navigating the landlord/tenant relationship, finding the right experts to help, and understanding what not to do, which those with experience know, is just as important as what to do. It tells a person in a mold situation what they really need to know, as doesn't bog them down with scientific or legal tedium.

Topics include:

• How to handle a mold discovery
• Mold testing: which types of tests work and which ones do not work
• Knowing your rights and responsibilities
• How to remove mold
• How to prevent mold

Rent your property using Peerless Legal's Beginner Landlord created with first-time landlords in mind as well as experienced landlords who are looking for legal forms to meet their shifting needs. This book is a great way to earn passive income. The forms are written in plain-English, easy to understand, comprehensive, and fill-in-the-blanks. The Legal Self-Help Guide series provides information to those who want to understand their legal rights and responsibilities in an effort to resolve legal problems or know enough to feel confident in their decision to retain legal counsel. This Guide provides plain-English explanations as an alternative to the legal jargon that fills legal books.

AVOID PAYING YOUR TENANTS TREBLE DAMAGES AND ATTORNEY'S FEES FOR MISHANDLNIG THEIR SECURITY DEPOSIT If you handle security deposits, you must have this authoritative and critical information to plot a course around the many pitfalls of this extremely harsh law. An expert in the field, Mr. Ward has practiced for over thirty-two years in this area of law. He has authored consumer pamphlets describing landlords' and tenants' rights for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has taught the subject in law school. He has lectured on the subject to judges, landlords, lawyers, brokers, managers, and tenants. Mr. Ward has spoken on TV about landlord and tenant law and he literally wrote the book: Massachusetts Landlord-Tenant Practice: Law and Forms.

A Brief Guide to Georgia Evictions is a plain-English how-to guide, written for non-lawyer landlords and lawyers who do not typically specialize in landlord-tenant law. Written by an experienced lawyer with more than a decade of experience in this area of the law as both litigator and mediator, this brief yet information-packed book complements, rather than replaces, the many available legal treatises on the subject. The reader is guided through the entire dispossessory (eviction) process in Georgia, beginning with concerns to be addressed before suit is even filed, and continuing throughout all phases of litigation, including trial, mediation, appeals, and the eviction process itself. The book is also liberally sprinkled with practice pointers and helpful hints designed to maximize the landlord's potential for success.

HMO law has become a hot topic in recent years with Council's licensing powers increasing evermore, the burden of the management regulations and the new regime of civil penalties for HMO breaches. In addition, defining what is and isn't an HMO is no easy topic. Having an HMO might increase rents but can also increase the risk of Local Authority prosecutions for both landlords and managing agents.

This easily digested book is written primarily for lawyers but with professional investors and managing agents in mind as it goes through issues found in practice, the current state of the law and potential arguments in cases.

Of the making of HMO law there is no end.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julian Hunt has defended HMO cases across the country. He has dealt with issues concerning licensing, management regulation breaches and whether HMOs are compliant with fire safety legislation and local council policies. He has worked with managing agents, landlords and professional investors along with planning consultants. He is a barrister of thirteen years' call and was a Senior Crown Prosecutor in his early years. He has a website at https: //housing-act-prosecution-defence-barrister.co.uk/

Julian was educated at Cambridge University and is a Lincoln's Inn Lord Denning award winner and lives in London.

A light-hearted yet informative view on everyday issues that crop up in the rental sector.

This (un)official guide offers landlords and tenants practical advice on how to avoid and handle them.

Collect Back Rent Eviction Process starts out with the 3 types of Eviction Notices, Eviction Process (all 50 states) and getting ready for a trial, Forms, procedures examples of courtroom scenarios, Must for the landlord that represents themselves in court

This unique book provides practical and legal clarity on all questions concerning landlord's consent, such as: What is a valid and effective request for consent? When can a tenant impose its desire for change on a reluctant landlord? What is a reasonable as opposed to an unreasonable refusal of consent? And what are the perils if either side calls it wrong?

Since the last edition of this book in 2008, the law relating to landlord's consent, has evolved considerably. The purpose of this new edition is to bring that evolution into the much-loved analysis which have made practitioners say that previous editions have been that rare beast: a book about law that is actually enjoyable to read and which allows the practitioner and student clearly to see the wood for the trees.

Das Werk bietet einen umfassenden Uberblick und Orientierung bezuglich staatlicher Massnahmen und Ansatzpunkte, die der Bewaltigung der aktuellen Wohnungsnot dienen. Hierzu werden die entsprechenden Regelungen des Zivilrechts, des Offentlichen Rechts einschliesslich des Sozialrechts sowie des Straf- und Ordnungswidrigkeitenrechts systematisiert dargestellt. Zudem wird immer wieder eine verfassungsrechtliche Perspektive eingenommen und sowohl grundlegend Art und Umfang der staatlichen Verpflichtung zum wohnungspolitischen Handeln auf Bundes- und Landerebene herausgearbeitet als auch die verfassungsrechtliche Anfechtbarkeit wohnungspolitischer Instrumente wie etwa der Mietpreisbremse, der Kappungsgrenzenverordnungen, der Zweckentfremdungsgesetze der Lander und der Ubernahme angemessener Bedarfe der Unterkunft nach SGB II diskutiert. Die Arbeit richtet sich gleichermassen an Wissenschaft und Praxis wie an wohnungspolitische Akteure in Bund, Landern und Kommunen.

The present work brings to completion my effort to state the complete law of property of Ghana. It was inspired by my earlier work on the customary land law of Ghana. The customary law remains the heart of the Ghanaian land law, but the story of the property law of Ghana is incomplete without a comprehensive account of the received law of property. The present work, therefore, brings to a full circle my efforts to state accurately and wholly the property law of Ghana. The field of Ghanaian property law is dominated by a combination of foreign and indigenous concepts. Arguably, the theoretical aspects of the property law of Ghana stand in need of resolution of the tensions between the two sources of law. The development of the English law of property was deeply marked by the early activities of the King's Court and its administration of a centralised system of law as distinguished from an earlier system of localised customary law, varying from place to place. Modified by equity, its doctrines were developed from a centralised system of records. A course in property law ought to equip the student with the entire range of concepts in the field, closely analysed. Described elsewhere as a rubbish heap that has been accumulating for centuries and understood only by the professors, the English law of property does not lend itself to easy understanding. Imposing structure upon a subject comprising essentially English law of property and applying it to Ghanaian circumstances has not been easy. To help the student grasp the interlocking nature of the concepts, and to gain rounded and more profound insights about the various rights and liabilities attached to interests in land, a persistent effort is made to connect the material to Ghanaian cases and statutes. Intended to complement the larger works on the law of real property, much of this book derives from the experience of teaching property law to students at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana. For over ten years now, I have been involved in the teaching of courses in land law to various groups of students, coming as they do from a background where an encounter with law teaching is invariably new. Many have contributed novel ideas and insights, and the great majority require a sound grounding in a very important aspect of our law. The focus is to equip them with a solid academic basis both for a subsequent course in conveyancing and for effective legal practice. The older books on the property law of Ghana belong to the last century, written, as the majority are, in the 1960s and 1970s. In organisation and scope this book is in two parts: historical development of English ideas of property and the law of landlord and tenant embracing leases and the Rent Act, 1963. I have clearly left out of the present work the subjects of registration of land and State intervention in land ownership as well as a number of statutory matters as they were adequately covered in my previous works.