Every Landlord's Legal Guide

by Marcia Stewart, Janet Portman, Ralph E. Warner

This popular book gives every residential landlord all the legal and professional information they need to be successful. § screen and choose tenants § complete the included rental agreement or lease § hire a property manager § deal with problem tenants § understand maintenance, repair and security responsilities § avoid security deposit disputes Every Landlord's Legal Guide includes the legal forms landlords need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM. The 8th edition includes new information on how the Patriot Act affects landlords and new federal rules on using and storing credit reports and verifying a tenant’s disabled status.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Money, Economics, Law, Reference

Paperback

First published December 28, 1997

Reviews

[Cory Wallace · Rating 5 out of 5]

Detailed, informative book on the landlord laws. I will continue to use it as a reference and it also comes with forms that updates when there is a change.

[Jodi Geever · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good resource. Too early for this for me

[Simon Cleveland · Rating 4 out of 5]

Foreclosures? Thinking about surviving the economic downturn by saving your extra home? Let's assume that you are one of thousands that took out an extra mortgage on your current home and purchased one more a few years back when that was possible. And let's assume that you are going bananas now thinking about how you'd keep both homes while also putting food on the table.

Enter `Every Landlord's Legal Guide'. Here is a book that will clue you in on how to rent your home, how to research the thousands of tenants looking for a home, how to deal with them once you get into hot water and how to avoid getting into issues in the first place.

The book is structured in a convenient way that makes sense to follow, from the advertisement for your home to the termination of a tenancy. There are plenty of great legal advices, needed forms (on the CD-ROM) even advices on how to deal with terrorists.

The book is also a good guide for any tenants out there who are looking to lease or rent.

[Marshall · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is everything you ever wanted to know about the legalities of being a landlord, and plenty of things you never wanted to know. It was so thorough that I can't imagine anyone possibly taking every bit of legal advice in the book. But it's good to know your risks and consciously make the choices of what precautions not to take, even if it means reading 400 double-column pages to do it.

Included in the book is information about screening tenants, leases, deposits, property managers, subletting, repair responsibilities, tenant privacy, evictions, all manners of liabilities, and tons of general legal information. It also comes with a CD-ROM with templates for every kind of form or document you'd ever need.

[Libby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably will be a 5, but I want to wait until I actually have a tenant and some experience under my belt to say for sure. Definitely helpful in bringing up issues I'd never have thought of and in drafting a good lease agreement.

[Bess · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a great book. It also has tearouts that can be used.

[Adam Morris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great and expensive (but worth it) resource.

[Toni]

Leave a paper trail.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is good at explaining the law in simple terms with good examples.

[Mrs. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful book, but NOT a substitute for legal advice from an actual lawyer familiar with the laws of your community.

[Steve Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must have for any real estate investor's (or investor wanna be) library