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Alaska residential lease agreement

Answer the questions, download the lease. Free, no account, and it holds your figures to what Alaska allows.

What Alaska law does to your lease

These are the figures the builder holds you to. Each one is the statute's, not ours, and the citation is there so you can read it yourself.

RuleAlaskaWhere it says so
Most a landlord may take as a deposit2 months' rentThe cap counts prepaid rent and the deposit together, and it does not apply at all where the rent is more than $2,000 a month. A pet deposit of up to one month's rent may be taken on top and must be accounted for separately (AS 34.03.070(h)).AS 34.03.070(a)
Earliest a late fee may be chargedThe day after it is dueAS 34.03.010 to 34.03.380
Most a late fee may beNo statutory limit, but it has to be reasonableAlaska's Act says nothing about late charges, so one is enforceable only if the rental agreement provides for it and it reasonably approximates what the late payment costs the landlord. A per-day charge is also held to the state usury ceiling in AS 45.45.010.AS 34.03.010 to 34.03.380
Notice before the landlord may enter24 hoursAS 34.03.140(c)
Notice to end a month-to-month tenancy30 daysThe notice runs to the rental due date named in it.AS 34.03.290(b)

What Alaska makes you disclose

Who manages and who owns
At or before the start of the tenancy the landlord must disclose in writing the name and address of the person authorized to manage the premises and of an owner or someone authorized to act for the owner in accepting service of process and receiving notices and demands, and keep it current. AS 34.03.080(a)
How the deposit is held and when it may be kept
Deposits and prepaid rent go promptly into a trust account at a bank, savings and loan or licensed escrow agent, accounted for separately per tenant and never mixed with the landlord's own money, and the landlord must give the tenant the terms and conditions under which any of it may be withheld. AS 34.03.070(c)

The clause most landlords get wrong

Rent stated as a base figure with mandatory fees bolted on beside it. If a fee is not optional, it is rent, and several states now say so outright: the lease has to carry one total figure that the landlord may not charge above. The builder asks for the total and then asks how much of it is fees, which is the same information in the order the law wants it.

The second is the assistance animal. A no-pets clause that does not carve one out is a fair-housing problem, not a pet problem, and no pet rent or pet deposit may be charged for one. Your lease says so whether or not you allow pets.

After it is signed

Download the PDF and it is yours, account or not. If you want the tenant to sign it without printing anything, a free Kouzr account sends it for signature, files the executed copy against the tenancy, and keeps it beside the listing, the rent record and the deposit accounting, so the paperwork for that home is in one place when the tenancy ends.

Is this Alaska lease legally binding?

A written lease signed by the landlord and every adult tenant is a contract, and this one is built to say what Alaska requires a residential lease to say. What it is not is legal advice, and no lawyer has reviewed it. It is a form you complete yourself, the same category as the fill-in-the-blank lease sold in an office supply shop, and it is worth having a lawyer in your state read it before you rely on it, especially on a property you will hold for years.

How much can a landlord charge as a security deposit in Alaska?

Alaska caps every deposit taken together at 2 months' rent (AS 34.03.070(a)). That is the total of the security deposit, any pet deposit, and any last month's rent held as a deposit, not each of them separately. The builder holds your figure to that ceiling and tells you when it has. The cap counts prepaid rent and the deposit together, and it does not apply at all where the rent is more than $2,000 a month. A pet deposit of up to one month's rent may be taken on top and must be accounted for separately (AS 34.03.070(h)).

Can a landlord charge a late fee in Alaska?

Yes. Alaska sets neither a grace period nor a ceiling (AS 34.03.010 to 34.03.380), which leaves the common-law rule: the fee has to be a reasonable estimate of what a late payment costs you, not a penalty, or a court will not enforce it. A few days' grace and a fee in the range of 5% of the rent is the shape that holds up.

How much notice does a landlord have to give before entering in Alaska?

24 hours for anything that is not an emergency, at a reasonable hour (AS 34.03.140(c)). A lease cannot shorten it, so the builder raises your figure if you enter a smaller one. Genuine emergencies need no notice anywhere.

How much notice ends a month-to-month tenancy in Alaska?

30 days of written notice from either side (AS 34.03.290(b)). The builder writes that figure into the term clause. A lease may agree on longer notice than the statute; one that gives less is unenforceable to that extent, and the statutory period governs instead. The notice runs to the rental due date named in it.

Do I have to include a lead-based paint disclosure?

Only if the home was built before 1978, and then yes, everywhere in the country. Federal law requires the landlord to disclose known lead-based paint, hand over any report they have, and give the tenant the EPA pamphlet before the tenant is committed to the lease (42 U.S.C. 4852d). Enter the year built and the builder attaches it for you.

Can I have the tenant sign it online?

Yes. Download the PDF and sign it however you like, or make a free Kouzr account and send it to the tenant for signature from here: they get a link, sign on a phone, and the executed copy files itself against the tenancy alongside rent and the deposit record. The PDF is free either way and does not require an account.

Kouzr is not a law firm and this is not legal advice. The builder produces a form you complete yourself, and no lawyer has reviewed the document it assembles. Have one admitted in Alaska read it before you rely on it.