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Every Landlord's Legal Guide - 17th Edition by Marcia Stewart & Janet Portman & Ann O'Connell (Paperback)
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- The legal forms and state rules every landlord and property manager needsTo 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.
- Author(s): Marcia Stewart & Janet Portman & Ann O'Connell
- 560 Pages
- Freedom + Security / Law Enforcement, Landlord & Tenant
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About the Book
Every Landlord's Legal Guide makes landlords' jobs easier by putting everything they need to legally and successfully run their business in one package. Every Landlord's Legal Guide details all the steps, procedures, laws, and tips landlords should consider from the time they start looking for tenants to the time the tenants move out. There's no need to reinvent the wheel or take a chance with iffy free online forms: this book includes updated, downloadable, and customizable versions of all the forms landlords need, along with directions on how to customize and use them. It's the complete how-to guide for landlords, all for the price of less than 15 minutes of a typical lawyer's time.Book Synopsis
The legal forms and state rules everylandlord 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.
Review Quotes
"Complete, detailed, accurate, practical, easy-to-understand and superb.... Every residential landlord in all 50 states should be required to read this outstanding book and to keep it handy for reference." Los Angeles Times
"...the bible for landlords."Chicago Tribune
"Stewart, an author, and attorneys Warner and Portman offer a legal guide for landlords. They address screening tenants; preparing leases and rental agreements; basic rent rules; security deposits; discrimination; property managers; getting the tenant moved in; co-tenants, sublets, and assignments; the duty to repair and maintain the premises; liability for tenant injuries from dangerous conditions, environmental health hazards, and criminal activity; right of entry and tenant privacy; ending a tenancy; returning security deposits and other move-out issues; problems and dispute resolution; late rent, terminations, and evictions; and finding a lawyer and doing legal research. The book includes state-specific information and legal forms and letters." Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView
"Every landlord must comply with local and state laws governing the rental of properties. Specifically designed for the non-specialist general reader and now in a completely updated and expanded 14th edition, "Every Landlord's Legal Guide" by the team of Marcia Stewart and Janet Portman, provides all 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. From move-in to move-out, "Every Landlord's Legal Guide" offers reliable and practical help with legal, financial, and day-to-day issues. With "Every Landlord's Legal Guide" landlords will avoid hassles and headaches, legal fees and lawsuits. "Every Landlord's Legal Guide" will prove invaluable in: screening and choosing tenants; preparing leases and rental agreements; avoiding discrimination, invasion of privacy, personal injury, and other lawsuits; hiring a property manager; keeping up with repairs and maintenance; making security deposit deductions; handling broken leases; learning how to terminate a tenancy for nonpayment of rent or other lease violations; restricting tenants from renting their place on Airbnb; and dealing with bedbugs, mold, and lead hazards. Of special note is the inclusion of a new discussion of how to deal with the aftermath of a tenant's death. Complete with downloadable forms, and unreservedly recommended for community library collections, "Every Landlord's Legal Guide" is an essential instructional reference." The Midwest Book Review