A thorough, legal-style residential lease: fixed term or month-to-month, rent and deposits written out properly, utilities, pets, entry notice, and the federal lead paint disclosure. Sign right here and send the PDF to your tenant to counter-sign on their own device.
Renting out a house, a condo, or the spare room over the garage starts with the same document every time, and most small landlords end up paying a subscription site or reusing a decade-old Word file with someone else's clauses in it. This generator builds the real thing: a structured, legal-style residential lease with the sections that actually get fought over later — the term, the rent with its late-fee rules, the security deposit, who pays which utilities, pets, smoking, entry notice, subletting, and proper signature blocks.
And like our Bill of Sale Generator, it handles the signing. Sign right on the page (draw with a finger or type your name in a signature script), download the PDF, and if the tenant isn't sitting across the table, hit Send to tenant: the message carries step-by-step instructions for counter-signing with our free PDF Signature tool on their own phone. Extra tenants each get their own signature line.
Small landlords with one or two properties who don't want a property-management subscription. Homeowners renting a basement suite or a room. Parents formalizing an adult kid's rent. Landlords going month-to-month with a long-time tenant whose old lease expired years ago. If you manage dozens of doors you likely have software for this; for everyone else, this does the job in ten minutes.
A residential lease signed by landlord and tenant is generally an enforceable contract, and this template includes the clauses that matter: the parties and premises, term, rent and deposits in words and figures, utilities, policies, entry notice, and signature blocks. Landlord-tenant law varies a lot by state (deposit caps, late-fee limits, required disclosures), so check your state's rules or have a lawyer review high-stakes leases. This tool provides a template, not legal advice.
Yes. Choose Month-to-month and the term clause rewrites itself: the tenancy starts on your date and continues until either party gives written notice, with the notice period you set (30 days is typical, some states require 60). Choose Fixed term instead for a standard one-year lease with start and end dates.
Right on the page: draw a signature with a mouse or finger, or type a name and it renders in a signature script. If the tenant is not with you, sign your half and use Send to tenant: the message carries the PDF and step-by-step instructions to counter-sign with our free PDF Signature tool on their own phone or computer. Extra tenants get their own signature lines on the document.
If the home was built before 1978, federal law (42 U.S.C. 4852d) requires a lead-based paint disclosure with most residential leases. Tick the built-before-1978 box and the generator adds the disclosure section and reminds you to provide the EPA pamphlet Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home.
Yes. The whole generator runs in your browser: names, addresses, rent amounts, and signatures are never uploaded. Drafts autosave to this browser, and Premium members can optionally back up their saved leases to their account to finish them on another device; that is off by default and opt-in.