Georgia Rental Lease Agreement Forms and Templates | PDF | Word
The Georgia rental agreements allow for a tenant to occupy property or space on a monthly basis in exchange for payment. The owner may require a background check through an application to screen to make sure that the tenant’s credit, job, and history of renting are in good standing. If any of the parties have any questions it is always recommended to verify with Georgia’s landlord-tenant handbook.
- Rental Application – Use this as a real estate agent, management company, or landlord to verify a potential tenant’s credit worthiness. As a tenant, by filling out this form and submitting, you are giving the other party the full legal right to contact previous employers and lessors in an attempt to see your ability to pay rent.
- Standard 1 Year/Realtor – An agreement between both landlord and tenant over a fixed period of time that allows one to rent space from the other in return for recurring monthly payments. The most popular time-frame is twelve (12) months and but can be any period decided upon by the parties involved.
- Month to Month – Allow for a tenant to rent property from a landlord as long as payment is made at the date described. There is no end date to the contract and continues perpetually. Termination (44-7-7): Landlord must provide at least sixty (60) days’ notice and the tenant must provide at least thirty (30) days’ notice.
- Sublease – Is popular for roommates because it allows for the renting of property by a tenant that is already under a lease contract (“sublessee”) to someone else (“sublessee”). The contract with the landlord and sublessor remains valid and the rental payments are still liable for the original Tenant even if the sublessee does not pay. The term of the sublease cannot go longer than the term of the original but the rent can be any amount as determined by sublessor and sublessee.
- Lease with Option to Purchase – If the lessee would like the chance to buy the residential dwelling during or at the end of the term.
- Commercial – Intended to be used for business purposes and ideally for space described as retail, office or industrial.
Common Landlord-Tenant Laws
- Security Deposit
- Maximum – No statutory limit on how much a landlord may accept
- Return – Tenant must receive their deposit back within one (1) month
- Entry – The landlord must provide notice to tenant before accessing the property but there is no limit on what reasonable notice should be
- Disclosure Forms
- People on the Property – Landlord must identify in the lease of anyone that is authorized to act in their presence on the property
- Flood – If the premises has been flooded in the last five (5) years the tenant must be informed
- Landlord-Tenant Checklist – Must be completed if a security deposit has been accepted or the landlord has to give an itemized list of all pre-existing damage on the premises
- Lead Paint – Must be signed by the tenant if the structure on the property was built prior to 1978
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