Property Management Agreement

The owner or the person signing on the owner's behalf must disclose in the rental agreement the name, telephone number and street address of each person authorized to manage the premises and of the owner or agent for…

A real estate broker is a person who for compensation, on behalf of another, sells or buys real property, leases or rents or offers to lease or rent, places for rent, solicits listings of places for rent or prospective…

No license is required for a regular officer of a corporation or general partner acting on the entity's own property without special compensation, a person holding a power of attorney from the owner, an attorney…

A broker who accepts funds belonging to others must deposit them into a neutral escrow, the principal's hands or a trust fund account in a California bank, keep them there until disbursed on the instructions of the…

CALIFORNIA'S SECURITY DEPOSIT RULES, and they changed recently: since July 2024 the cap is generally ONE MONTH'S RENT whether or not the unit is furnished, with a narrow small-landlord exception.

Instead of disclosure in the rental agreement, the information required by section 1962(a)(1) may be posted in every elevator and one other conspicuous place, or in two conspicuous places in a building without an…

The leasing and rent collection part of the broker definition does not apply to hotel and motel managers, the resident manager of an apartment building or complex and that manager's employees, persons arranging…

A broker who collects an advance fee must deposit it in a trust account, the funds are trust funds and not the broker's, they may be withdrawn only when expended for the principal or five days after verified accounts…

The tenant's repair-and-deduct remedy, limited to one month's rent and available a limited number of times per year after reasonable notice. Advise a landlord on the condition of the property before advising on rent.

An owner ending a California residential periodic tenancy must give at least 60 DAYS' written notice, and 30 days where occupancy is under one year or on a qualifying sale to a natural-person buyer who will reside…

Connecticut trust-account rule: a licensed broker who holds money for a principal, client or other person must keep a separate escrow or trust account in a Connecticut bank, must deposit any down payment, earnest money,…

Connecticut record-retention rule: a broker must keep leases, contracts, offers, listing and representation agreements, required disclosures, and all checks and bank statements for any escrow or trust account for at…

Escrow requirements for advance rental payments and security deposits for residential units. A landlord who commingles the deposit is exposed; say in the lease where the deposit is held.

How a residential eviction is actually executed, including removal and the handling of unclaimed possessions. The step landlords most often get wrong after winning.

Definitions for Connecticut's real estate licensing chapter: among them, real estate broker means any person engaged in the real estate business or employed by an owner to sell parcels, real estate salesperson means an…

Connecticut rule that no person may act as a real estate licensee without a license unless exempt under the chapter, with the conditions under which a business entity may engage in the real estate business (licensed…

The requirements a listing or brokerage agreement must meet before a broker can sue for a commission. Relevant whenever a transaction involves a commission dispute or an agreement drafted without these elements.

Connecticut licensing exemptions: an owner or lessor acting for its own property and its regular on-site employees, an attorney-in-fact completing a transaction or an attorney acting as such, fiduciaries and…

Connecticut fair housing statute: it is a discriminatory practice to refuse to rent or negotiate, to discriminate in terms or services, or to publish a discriminatory notice or advertisement because of race, creed,…

A lease for life or for a term EXCEEDING ONE YEAR, or one with a renewal or purchase option, is not effective against anyone other than the lessor, lessee and their heirs unless it is executed, acknowledged and recorded…

Delaware escrow rule: every broker must keep an escrow account in a federally insured bank with Delaware offices, opened in the brokerage's name and designated as escrow with the broker as signatory, used only for…

How a rental agreement's term runs and how it is terminated, including the notice periods. A defective notice defeats a Delaware eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

A rental agreement extends automatically where neither party gives the required notice, generally on a month-to-month basis. Tell a landlord that silence renews the tenancy.

Fair-housing provision of the Delaware Residential Landlord-Tenant Code: no owner or agent may refuse to rent, subrent, sublease, assign or cancel a rental agreement, or charge more rent, because of the protected…

The tenant's right to terminate at the beginning of the term in the circumstances the section describes. Relevant where a unit is not as promised.

A condition depriving the tenant of a substantial part of the bargain: WRITTEN NOTICE PLUS 15 DAYS FOR THE LANDLORD TO REMEDY, then the tenant may terminate.

Delaware licensing rule: no person may provide real estate services or hold out as qualified to do so without a license, a brokerage organization operates through a licensed broker responsible for its services, and…

Definitions for Delaware real estate licensing: an associate broker or broker is one licensed to sell, buy, or negotiate the purchase, sale or exchange of real estate, or to lease or rent or offer for rent any real…

What the Code does NOT cover. A tenancy outside the Code is governed by the lease and general law instead.

The landlord's disclosure obligations, including identifying the owner or agent. Build these into the lease rather than a side letter.

District of Columbia statement of the duties a licensee owes the client it is engaged by (performing under the brokerage relationship, promoting the client's interests, accounting for money, disclosing material facts)…

District of Columbia definitions for the real estate brokers' duties chapter: a brokerage relationship is the contractual relationship between a client and a licensee engaged to procure a buyer, seller, tenant or…

A tenant victim, or a minor victim's parent or guardian, of an intrafamily offense under § 16-1001(8) IS RELEASED FROM THE LEASE on giving the housing provider written notice plus either a § 16-1005 order or…

Governs the District entry rule, requiring reasonable advance notice and entry at reasonable times except in an emergency.

Limits how much notice a housing provider may require from a tenant vacating after the lease term ends. A landlord-side lease that demands 60 days may exceed what this section allows.

District of Columbia Human Rights Act housing provision: it is an unlawful discriminatory practice to refuse or terminate a rental, discriminate in terms, or engage in the other listed acts wholly or partly for a reason…

Covered transactions require a bona fide tenant opportunity to purchase; current section .02 also addresses appraisal and certification procedures and when tenant rights vest.

The statutory frame for District security deposits: deposits are collected under the Security Deposit Act and 14 DCMR 308 et seq., a housing provider may not withhold for ordinary wear and tear, and within 45 days after…

Requires a housing provider to disclose to a tenant or prospective tenant, before a lease is signed and on request, a prescribed set of information about the unit and the housing accommodation, including rent-control…

Security deposits and advance rent: check permitted custody, interest, disclosures and exceptions.

For a residential rental agreement with a term of one year or longer, the landlord must give a separate flood disclosure at or before execution, substantially in the statutory form.

Termination grounds, cure periods and notice forms differ for nonpayment, curable violations and qualifying noncurable violations. Email notice requires 83.505 compliance and statutory notice may not be waived.

The landlord's remedies when a tenant breaches or leaves early, including the liquidated damages or early termination fee option the section permits IF the lease contains the required provision in the statutory form.

A SERVICEMEMBER may terminate the lease on written notice with a copy of the orders where they receive permanent change of station orders, deployment orders of 90 days or more, or are released from active duty, and the…

Subsection (5) requires the RADON GAS NOTIFICATION, in the statute's prescribed words, at or before execution of any contract for sale or any rental agreement for a building.

Florida text defining a broker as a person who, for another and for compensation, appraises, auctions, sells, exchanges, buys or rents real property or business opportunities, or offers, attempts or agrees to do so or…

Florida text making it unlawful to refuse to sell or rent, refuse to negotiate, or otherwise make a dwelling unavailable because of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, familial status or religion, to…

Florida definitions for the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, including advance rent, building, housing and health codes, deposit money, dwelling unit, landlord, rent, rental agreement and tenant.

Maryland definitions for the real estate brokers title, under which providing real estate brokerage services means, for consideration, selling, buying, exchanging or leasing real estate or collecting rent for the use of…

Maryland text: an individual must be licensed as a real estate broker (or as an associate broker or salesperson acting for a broker) before providing brokerage services in the State, and subsection (b) lists the persons…

Limits and conditions an award of attorney's fees in a Maryland landlord-tenant action. A one-sided fee-shifting clause in a Maryland lease should be checked against it.

Maryland's prohibited-provisions section. A landlord may not use a lease containing a confessed-judgment clause, a waiver of any right or remedy provided by law, a late-payment penalty in excess of 5% of the unpaid rent…

Maryland definitions for the trust money part of the brokers title: trust money is a deposit, payment or other money entrusted to a broker (or to an associate broker or salesperson on the broker's behalf) to hold for…

Maryland text: an associate broker or salesperson who obtains trust money must promptly submit it to the broker, and the broker must deposit trust money within the period the section states, with the exceptions in…

Maryland text: a broker must keep trust money in an authorized account until the transaction is consummated or terminated, proper written instructions direct its disposition, a court orders otherwise on interpleader, or…

A landlord may not take a security deposit above one month's rent per dwelling unit, regardless of the number of tenants, with a narrow exception allowing two months where the tenant qualifies for utility assistance,…

The receipt for a security deposit must notify the tenant of the right to be present at a move-in and move-out inspection, the right to receive by first-class mail a written list of damages and the cost actually…

Every landlord must maintain a records system showing the dates and amounts of rent and other payments received. The lease should state where payments are recorded and how a tenant may obtain a statement.

Massachusetts rule that no person may engage in the business of or act as a broker or salesman, even temporarily or incidentally, without a license, that a salesman acts only through a responsible broker who approves…

Massachusetts lead-paint duty: whenever a child under six resides in premises with dangerous levels of lead in paint, plaster or other accessible structural material the owner must abate or contain it under subsection…

Massachusetts discipline section for brokers and salesmen: the board may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license for substantial misrepresentation, undisclosed dual capacity, acting for several parties without…

Definitions for Massachusetts real estate broker licensing: a real estate broker is any person who for another and for a fee, or in expectation of one, sells, exchanges, purchases, rents or leases, or negotiates or…

The notice required to terminate a tenancy at will: generally the rental period or thirty days, whichever is longer. A defective notice defeats the eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

Recovering possession after a tenancy at will has been terminated. The step after the section 12 notice.

A residential lease provision purporting to relieve the landlord from liability for negligence is VOID. Do not draft one.

A lease provision waiving the tenant's right to statutory notices is void. Massachusetts residential leases cannot contract around the notice regime.

THE STRICTEST SECURITY DEPOSIT STATUTE IN THIS COLLECTION, and the one that generates Massachusetts landlord liability.

Lease provisions restricting a tenant's right to litigate or limiting landlord liability are void as the section provides. Another clause family to keep out of a Massachusetts lease.

Within 30 days after the tenancy or license ends the landlord must return the deposit plus the tenant's portion of interest or earnings, less charges permitted by the lease, by personal delivery or registered or…

Definition: a real estate broker is a person, firm or corporation who, for a fee, commission or other valuable consideration or the expectation of one, lists, sells, exchanges, buys or rents real estate, negotiates or…

Money or other security deposited under a lease or license of real property remains the property of the person who deposited it, is held in trust, and may not be mingled with the recipient's own property or become an…

A landlord may not require more than one and one-half times one month's rent as security for residential property.

For landlords covered by 46:8-27, provide each occupant or tenant the registration certificate required by 46:8-28 when a new tenancy is created.

Text of P.L.2021, c.182: after its definitions, the section requires a municipality, through its permanent local agency or a certified lead evaluation contractor, to inspect each rental dwelling unit (and common areas…

Defines dwelling unit, hotel, multiple dwelling, owner and project. Multiple dwelling includes a building with at least three dwelling units occupied or intended for independent residents and the specified group of at…

Complete LAD definitions, including disability, real property, publicly assisted housing and the conditioned owner-resident two-family/room-rental exceptions. Federal and New Jersey exceptions differ.

For tenants covered by section 2 of the Anti-Eviction Act, a lease provision permitting termination or nonrenewal without statutory good cause, or waiving other rights under the Act, is against public policy and…

No person may engage directly or indirectly, temporarily or otherwise, in the business of a real estate broker, broker-salesperson or salesperson, or advertise or represent authority to act as one, or engage in any of…

Department of State compilation of the Real Estate License Law, published as one page: Real Property Law article 12-A, the related statutes, and 19 NYCRR Subchapter D, whose § 175.1 provides that a real estate broker…

Lists the grounds for a summary proceeding and requires a written 14-day demand for rent before a nonpayment proceeding. A New York lease's default clause cannot substitute a shorter demand.

Requires a residential lease to carry a conspicuous flood disclosure stating whether the premises are wholly or partly in a FEMA special flood hazard area or moderate risk area and whether the unit has sustained flood…

Licensing requirement: no person or entity may act or hold itself out as a real estate broker or salesperson without a license, with the age, conviction (article 23-A) and citizenship-status provisions the section…

Definition: a real estate broker is any person or entity who, for another and for compensation, lists, sells, exchanges, buys or rents real estate, negotiates a sale, exchange, purchase or rental, collects or offers to…

Agency-disclosure statute: licensees acting as agents of landlords and tenants (and of buyers and sellers) of residential property must give the prescribed disclosure form at the first substantive contact, obtain a…

Official Department of State fair-housing notice that real estate licensees provide: it lists the protected characteristics under federal, state and local law, gives examples of potential violations in renting and…

The Department of State's mandatory agency disclosure for rentals under Real Property Law § 443, setting out landlord's agent, tenant's agent, broker's agent and dual agency, with the signature acknowledgment.

No deposit or advance may exceed one month's rent; the landlord must offer a move-in inspection and give a written itemised statement of any move-out condition, and must return the deposit with an itemised statement of…

Registration rule for multiple dwellings in cities the Multiple Dwelling Law covers: every owner, lessee of a whole dwelling and agent or person in control must file with the department a notice of name, address and…

Ohio administrative rule requiring every brokerage that manages property for another to establish and maintain a separate property management trust account for security deposits, rents and money received from or for…

Ohio text defining a real estate broker as a person who, for another and for compensation, sells, exchanges, purchases, rents or leases real estate or negotiates those transactions, and, in division (A)(5), operates,…

Ohio text prohibiting any person or entity from acting or advertising as a real estate broker or salesperson without a license under the chapter, except as section 4735.022 provides, and from providing licensed services…

Ohio text stating that no right of action accrues for compensation for the acts in section 4735.01 unless the claimant alleges and proves it was licensed as a real estate broker, and limiting a salesperson's collection…

The tenant's statutory obligations. The counterpart to section 5321.04 and the basis for a landlord's breach claim.

What a rental agreement may include, subject to the chapter. Read with section 5321.13 before drafting anything unusual.

VOID CLAUSES in an Ohio residential rental agreement, including agreements to pay the landlord's attorney's fees, to confess judgment, or to limit liability for the landlord's own negligence.

SELF-HELP IS PROHIBITED. An Ohio landlord may not exclude the tenant by changing locks, may not seize the tenant's property for rent, and may not shut off utilities, with damages available to the tenant.

OHIO'S SECURITY DEPOSIT RULE HAS AN INTEREST TRAP. Any deposit exceeding fifty dollars or one month's rent, whichever is greater, bears FIVE PER CENT INTEREST ANNUALLY on the excess if the tenant stays six months or…

Regulation text: a broker must deposit money belonging to another into an escrow account in a federally or state-insured bank pending consummation or termination of the transaction and then pay it over, with the broker…

A contract or LEASE entered into by the declarant before the unit owners elect their own executive board may be terminated without penalty on the notice the section requires.

Text of the whole act. Section 201 (63 P.S. § 455.201) defines a broker as any person who, for another and for a fee, negotiates or aids in locating property for purchase or lease, negotiates the listing, sale,…

Regulation text: a broker must deposit money belonging to another into an escrow account by the end of the next business day after its receipt in the office where the escrow records are kept, and may hold a check…

Regulation text: an escrow account must be maintained in a federally or state-insured bank or recognized depository, designate the broker as trustee, allow withdrawal without prior notice and be used exclusively for…

Regulation text: a broker must keep records of money received that must be held in escrow, produce them for the Commission on written request or office inspection, and record for each item the payor, the owner of the…

The cooperative Act's defined terms, including proprietary lease, cooperative interest and proprietary lessee. These are the words a cooperative occupancy agreement has to use;

Except where the subpart expressly allows it, its provisions may NOT be varied by agreement and rights it confers may not be waived. Check before drafting a proprietary lease clause that departs from the statute;

A cooperative interest is a separate LEASEHOLD interest in real estate for the purposes the section states.

Pennsylvania's unconsolidated Landlord and Tenant Act, published as a complete act.

SELF-HELP IS TIGHTLY LIMITED. A Texas landlord generally may not interrupt utilities, remove doors or windows or the tenant's property, or lock the tenant out except on the narrow statutory conditions, and the tenant…

Texas text defining a broker as a person who, for a commission or other consideration, for another sells, exchanges, purchases or leases real estate, offers or negotiates to do so, lists real estate, and performs the…

Texas text barring a person without a license under the chapter from acting or representing itself as a broker or sales agent or acting as a residential rental locator, barring a business entity from acting as a broker…

Texas text listing the grounds for disciplining a license holder, including negligence, dishonesty, material misrepresentation, and, in the escrow provisions, failing to deposit money received as escrow or trust funds…

Governs prepaid rent, requiring it to be held in an escrow account in a federally insured institution until the first day of the rental period for which it applies.

Virginia entry rule: the TENANT SHALL NOT UNREASONABLY WITHHOLD CONSENT to entry to inspect, repair, service or show the unit.

Lets a servicemember or National Guard member on full-time or technician duty terminate on written notice to the landlord: PCS orders, temporary duty over three months, discharge or release, government quarters, or a…

Virginia definitions for the real estate licensing chapter, including branch office, place of business, and the definitions of real estate broker and real estate salesperson that bring leasing, renting and managing…

All publisher versions are preserved with their effective-date headings. Determine the operative version and transition conditions for the matter; do not treat future amendments as present law.

The statement the Department of Housing and Community Development is required to develop and publish, which § 55.1-1204(B) obliges a landlord to provide with every written rental agreement, together with the DHCD…

The defined terms fix the economics of the lease: "rent" is all money other than a security deposit owed or paid to the landlord under the agreement, including prepaid rent more than one month ahead;

The publisher presents multiple versions of this section. Read every version with its own effective-date heading and transition provisions; determine which dates or contingencies govern the matter.

Beginning on the first page of the written rental agreement, the landlord must itemize all charges to the tenant comprising the security deposit, the rent due per payment period under the lease period, and any…