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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 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.

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"""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"

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Marcia Stewart is the coauthor of Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home, Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants, First-Time Landlord, Every Tenant's Legal Guide, Leases and Rental Agreements, Renters' Rights, and The Legal Answer Book for Families. Janet Portman, Nolo's Executive Editor, oversees editorial work on all Nolo books, articles, and websites. She specializes in residential and commercial landlord/tenant law, legal issues related to courts, and criminal law. She is the author or a coauthor of Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants, First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-Family Home, Every Tenant's Legal Guide, Renters' Rights, Leases & Rental Agreements, The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights and Responsibilities, and California Tenants' Rights. Portman received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and a law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. Before joining Nolo in 1994, she practiced law as a public defender. Ann O'Connell is a legal editor at Nolo specializing in landlord-tenant and real estate law. Before joining Nolo as an editor, Ann was a freelance writer for Nolo and other publications and law firms. She has passed the bar exams in California, Nevada, and Colorado, where she is both an active attorney and a real estate broker. Ann practiced civil litigation in California and Colorado, and had her own firm in Colorado. At her firm, she focused on real estate, landlord-tenant, and small business cases. Ann earned her B.A. from Boston College and her J.D. from UC Berkeley Law.

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