Every Landlord's Legal Guide - Softcover

Stewart, Marcia; Portman Attorney, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413325173 ISBN 13: 9781413325171

Publisher: NOLO, 2018

Synopsis

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 bedbugs, mold, and lead hazards.

The 14th edition is completely revised to provide your state’s current laws, covering deposits, rent, entry, termination, late rent notices, and more. It includes a new discussion of how to deal with the aftermath of a tenant’s death (it happens more often than you think).

About this title

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!

Book Description:

Every landlord and property manager needs to know the laws in their state in order to run a successful business, stay out of legal trouble with tenants, and minimize lawyer fees. This book provides comprehensive state-specific information and dozens of legal forms that the millions of U.S. landlords and property managers need―all for the price of less than 30 minutes of a typical lawyer’s time.

About this edition

• Publisher: NOLO
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1413325173
• ISBN 13: 9781413325171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504