Most free lease templates are a Word file with blanks in it. The blanks are the problem: a deposit above what your state allows, a late fee charged from the first of the month where the law says the fourth, an entry-notice clause shorter than the statute. None of those make the lease void, they just make that clause unenforceable at the worst possible moment, which is the day you need it.
This builder knows the rules it has sourced. Type a figure the state caps and it holds the figure to the ceiling and tells you which statute did it. Where we have not sourced a state's rule, it says so and asks you to check rather than inventing a number, because a confident wrong answer is worse than an honest gap.
What you get
- A lease of twelve clauses: parties, term, rent as one figure, late payment, deposit, who lives there and pets, utilities, condition, both sides' duties, access, and the law that governs it.
- The federal lead-based paint disclosure attached automatically on a home built before 1978.
- The disclosures your state bolts on, where we have sourced them.
- A Letter-size PDF with signature blocks for the landlord and every tenant.
When you want the tenant to sign it, a free account sends it to them for signature and files the executed copy against the tenancy, next to the rental listing, the rent and the deposit record. The PDF itself never needs an account.