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Owners and managers of residential rental
property, this new collection of forms and
guidelines is designed to help with the creation of
leases, rental agreements, and related
documents. The authors' legal advice is
accompanied by sound suggestions for managing
rental arrangements. Stewart and Warner build
the documents from the ground up by defining
terms, enumerating issues to consider, offering
alternative clauses, and highlighting problem
areas. In an especially good discussion of
choosing tenants, readers will find counsel on
advertising property, checking references, and
avoiding discrimination. Forms for consent to
background check, rental application, and tenant
references complete the discussion. The plentiful
tables include references to state laws on security
deposits, landlord access to rental property, and
lists of states that limit security deposits. An
appendix offers tear-away forms that cover a
number of common landlord/tenant situations.
This book works well with the authors' Every
Landlord's Legal Guide (LJ 4/15/96), a
comprehensive look at state and federal laws
governing landlord-tenant relations.
Recommended for most public libraries.?Joan
Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.
From Booklist
Binding legal agreements are part of every
contemporary American's life, and advice on them
can be welcome and valuable. Stewart and
Warner provide some in a nicely laid out and
well-organized guide mostly for landlords. They
explain the renting game clearly and with many
sample forms (which may tempt some to use the
guide as a workbook, so libraries may want to
keep a reference copy for single-use
photocopying, at least until subsequent
editions--legal advice publisher Nolo updates its
wares regularly--come out). They promise to help
turn the property holder into a successful landlord
with useful advice on such matters as whether to
prefer a lease or a rental agreement and
changing or ending a tenancy. Since they also
describe how to avoid illegal discrimination,
renters may find the book well worth perusing, too.
Indeed, the good overview they afford of all the
legal ins, outs, ups, and downs of the
landlord-tenant relationship might be the spur that
goads balky readers to buy rather than rent. Mike
Tribby .
property, this new collection of forms and
guidelines is designed to help with the creation of
leases, rental agreements, and related
documents. The authors' legal advice is
accompanied by sound suggestions for managing
rental arrangements. Stewart and Warner build
the documents from the ground up by defining
terms, enumerating issues to consider, offering
alternative clauses, and highlighting problem
areas. In an especially good discussion of
choosing tenants, readers will find counsel on
advertising property, checking references, and
avoiding discrimination. Forms for consent to
background check, rental application, and tenant
references complete the discussion. The plentiful
tables include references to state laws on security
deposits, landlord access to rental property, and
lists of states that limit security deposits. An
appendix offers tear-away forms that cover a
number of common landlord/tenant situations.
This book works well with the authors' Every
Landlord's Legal Guide (LJ 4/15/96), a
comprehensive look at state and federal laws
governing landlord-tenant relations.
Recommended for most public libraries.?Joan
Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.
From Booklist
Binding legal agreements are part of every
contemporary American's life, and advice on them
can be welcome and valuable. Stewart and
Warner provide some in a nicely laid out and
well-organized guide mostly for landlords. They
explain the renting game clearly and with many
sample forms (which may tempt some to use the
guide as a workbook, so libraries may want to
keep a reference copy for single-use
photocopying, at least until subsequent
editions--legal advice publisher Nolo updates its
wares regularly--come out). They promise to help
turn the property holder into a successful landlord
with useful advice on such matters as whether to
prefer a lease or a rental agreement and
changing or ending a tenancy. Since they also
describe how to avoid illegal discrimination,
renters may find the book well worth perusing, too.
Indeed, the good overview they afford of all the
legal ins, outs, ups, and downs of the
landlord-tenant relationship might be the spur that
goads balky readers to buy rather than rent. Mike
Tribby .