Free templates
Free Los Angeles rental templates
Ready-to-use letters, notices, checklists, and California disclosures for LA renters and landlords — free, no account required. Copy them or download a PDF. These are templates, not legal advice.
For renters
Demand the return of your security deposit. California landlords must return it within 21 days of move-out with an itemized statement and supporting photos.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Put a repair request in writing. California's implied warranty of habitability requires landlords to keep your home safe and livable.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Ask a past landlord for a reference you can use on future California applications.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Everything to have ready before you apply in Los Angeles, plus the California fee caps and refund rights that protect you along the way.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Document the condition of your apartment at move-in — your best evidence for getting your full security deposit back under California law.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Sublet your Los Angeles apartment properly — with the lease consent California requires and the rent-control disclosures most templates skip.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Set clear expectations with a roommate in an LA apartment — rent shares, deposit, utilities, and house rules, under California deposit law.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Tell your landlord in writing that you won't be renewing and will move out by a set date — with the advance notice California law requires.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Ask to end a fixed-term California lease before it's up — what grounds, notice, and fees typically apply, and what to propose to your landlord.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Ask your Los Angeles landlord, in writing, for permission to sublet — California gives tenants no automatic right to sublet, so most leases require the landlord's consent first.
Legal advice recommended before use.
A firmer follow-up when your earlier repair request was ignored — puts the landlord on notice that you're escalating to LAHD code enforcement next.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Document and object to a landlord locking you out or removing your belongings without a court order. California law bans this "self-help" eviction and makes it a civil — and sometimes criminal — violation.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Formally document a pattern of landlord harassment and put your landlord on written notice, citing California's tenant harassment statute and LA's Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance.
Legal advice recommended before use.
The final warning before you sue: tell your landlord you'll file in small claims court for your unpaid security deposit, plus the statutory penalty of up to twice the deposit for bad-faith retention.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Ask your landlord to formally release your guarantor once the conditions for release — the end of the guaranteed lease term, or the terms set out in the guaranty itself — have been met.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Give your landlord your new address in writing after you move out, so your security deposit and any mail get sent to the right place.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Give your co-tenants (and, where needed, your landlord) written notice that you're moving out — and put your lease liability, deposit split, and replacement-roommate steps in writing.
Legal advice recommended before use.
End your lease early as a survivor of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, elder/dependent abuse, or human trafficking, with the notice California law requires.
Legal advice recommended before use.
For landlords
Return a tenant's deposit with the itemized statement California law requires within 21 days of move-out.
Legal advice recommended before use.
The written 3-day rent demand California requires before starting an unlawful detainer for nonpayment — plus the LA filing step many landlords miss.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Offer a tenant a lease renewal, with the advance notice California and Los Angeles require for rent increases.
Legal advice recommended before use.
California tenants can require a signed rent receipt for any payment, especially cash. Here's a compliant one.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Document unit condition at move-in and move-out — required detail for AB 2801 photos and to support fair, defensible deposit deductions under Cal. Civil Code §1950.5.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Required for most housing built before 1978. Use the official EPA/HUD disclosure form and pamphlet — California law treats undisclosed lead hazards as a housing-code violation.
Legal advice recommended before use.
California landlords must give tenants a written bed bug information and reporting-procedure notice before a new tenancy begins — no single state form, but Civil Code §1954.603 dictates the required content.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Every California lease must include the statutory Megan's Law sex-offender database notice, word for word, in at least 8-point type.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Units covered by the LA Rent Stabilization Ordinance require the landlord to serve the tenant a copy of the official LAHD registration statement — LA's equivalent of NYC's DHCR rider.
Legal advice recommended before use.
A free, fillable Los Angeles / California residential lease agreement. Enter your terms, sign online, download a PDF — AB 12 deposit cap, reasonable-late-fee standard, and CA/LA disclosures and riders built in.
Legal advice recommended before use.
A simple month-to-month tenancy agreement, with the termination and rent-increase notice periods California and Los Angeles law require.
Legal advice recommended before use.
A California guaranty for a Los Angeles-area lease — where a third party agrees to cover the tenant's obligations.
Legal advice recommended before use.
A signed letter certifying how much rent a tenant paid over a period — for tax prep, benefits applications, or a visa/immigration file. California has no official "certificate of rent" form, so this is the standard substitute.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Add pet terms to a California lease — with the AB 12 deposit cap, pet rent, and the reminder that service/support animals aren't "pets" under fair housing law.
Legal advice recommended before use.
A short written form for a landlord to grant or deny consent to a tenant's sublet request — the paper trail California's reasonable-consent standard depends on.
Legal advice recommended before use.
Formally release a lease guarantor from further liability — the paperwork a continuing guaranty needs to actually end.
Legal advice recommended before use.
A landlord-issued notice ending a month-to-month tenancy in California — with the 30/60-day rule and the just-cause overlay for tenancies of 12+ months.
Legal advice recommended before use.
A signed statement from a tenant confirming lease terms and deposit amount — commonly required when a building is being sold, refinanced, or appraised.
Legal advice recommended before use.
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