Looking for a pre-made lease agreement template for a residential rental property? At NowRenting, we have you covered all the way from listing your rental and screening tenants, to creating a digital lease and gathering e-signatures.
In this post, we’ll give you step-by-step instructions for how to access a pre-made standard lease agreement that you can fill in with the most important information you need to specify for your rental property. For example: landlord name & contact info, tenant name, property address, unit, lease term, rent payment, etc.
Then, we also facilitate electronic lease-signing between you and your tenants.
What Our Pre-Made Lease Agreement Template Looks Like
Below is a screenshot of the NowRenting standard pre-made lease agreement template. Where you see the text in blue, we pull in that data from your NowRenting account and applicant records. But first, you need to have listed your property via NowRenting (the smart way to do it, since we syndicate your listing to 14 different websites!).
If you don’t decide to use NowRenting for your current listing vacancy, bookmark this page for listing and managing future property vacancies and tenants. It will save you time and headache!
How to Personalize the Pre-Made Lease Agreement Template
Here’s the most streamlined way to personalize the pre-made lease agreement template:
1. List your property with NowRenting.com
NowRenting is online software that streamlines all your rental business tasks. So when you list your property on NowRenting, we will syndicate your listing to 14 different rental listing sites to save you time and hassle.
Listing your property using NowRenting will also allow you to set pre-screening questions that interested tenants must answer before being shown the property in person.
You assign a possible rating to each answer choice, which then allows us to automatically assign a ‘Match Score’ to your leads.
2. Narrow down the best tenant Leads
When these leads enter your dashboard, they are color-coded with a percentage rating so that you can sort and filter, to get a clear view of the most qualified tenants for your that specific property. You can get a detailed view of what specifically impacted a tenant’s score.
In the example below, the tenant lead isn’t ideal because they indicated that they own a large dog when asked what types of pets they owned. The landlord who set this question up had specifically assigned a substandard value to the answer ‘large dog’ since that landlord didn’t want large dogs in the unit.
3. Send a rental application & request a background check
Before you access the pre-made lease agreement template, you send a rental application to the tenant lead via NowRenting. Simultaneously, you can request a full background check. This includes criminal record, eviction history, and credit reporting. The tenant will pay the application fee at this point, which covers the cost of the background check.
4. Send the pre-made lease agreement
Navigate to ‘Leases’ where you can view your pre-made lease agreement templates. As we mentioned before, the standard lease agreement that we have available will automatically insert important information from your NowRenting account to personalize the agreement (example shown at the top of this post).
When you’re ready to send and sign the lease, you just enter your tenant’s email address and they will be invited to sign it electronically. We make it easy for you to add your signature.
Ready to Try NowRenting?
Now that you know how to get a pre-made lease agreement template for residential properties, it’s time to get started! NowRenting is only $9/month and includes a 100% in-month money-back guarantee.
(Note: As of December 2018, NowRenting’s pricing structure has changed. Visit the pricing page for current information.)
But for 7 days, you can get a free trial.
Not only do we make it a breeze to market property listings and generate pre-made lease agreements with e-signatures, we also streamline tenant management once the lease is signed. This means you can collect rent online, send automatic tenant reminders, receive online maintenance requests, and centralize all tenant communication.
What are you waiting for?
Access a free pre-made lease agreement for 7 days starting now.