Lease Agreements

Pennsylvania requires few specific lease clauses, but security-deposit caps, a 30-day return rule, and federal lead-paint disclosure apply to every tenancy.

Ohio does not require a standard lease form, but state law dictates one required disclosure, voids certain clauses, and sets rules on deposits, repairs, and long-term leases.

What Florida law actually requires a residential lease to contain: written-lease rules, mandatory disclosures, void clauses, and the statutory defaults that apply when a lease is silent.

What California law requires in a written residential lease, from mandatory terms and required disclosures to rent-cap notices and the security deposit limit.

What New York law requires in a residential lease: when a lease must be written, the one-month security deposit cap, capped application and late fees, the non-waivable warranty of habitability, occupancy protections, and the clauses courts refuse to enforce.

Illinois does not dictate a standard lease form, but state and federal law require specific disclosures and forbid certain clauses. Here is what a residential lease must contain and what it cannot.

What a Texas residential lease must contain, the copy-of-lease deadline, and the deposit, repair, and late-fee rules that apply no matter what the lease says.

A plain-language reference to Texas tenant rights under the Property Code: security deposits, late fees, repairs and habitability, lockouts, retaliation, and how an eviction works.

A plain-language overview of Illinois landlord-tenant law: how security deposits, interest, retaliation, utilities, and eviction work under 765 ILCS, and where local ordinances change the rules.

A plain-language reference to New York landlord-tenant law: leases, rent and fee limits, the warranty of habitability, notice periods, eviction, and security deposits, with links to the governing statutes and state agencies.

A plain-language reference to Pennsylvania landlord-tenant law: the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951, security deposit rules, repairs and habitability, notice to quit, the eviction court process, and how local ordinances change the rules.

A plain-language reference to Ohio landlord-tenant law under Revised Code Chapter 5321, security deposits, the 30-day rule, repairs and rent escrow, landlord and tenant duties, and how eviction works.