Forms available for download:
Rental Application -- A background and credit check are required for each adult, which is why each occupant over age 18 must furnish an application fee along with their completely filled out application. But before you start filling things in, please call first so we can chat and then show you the home in person.
Lease/Rental Agreement -- We don't use the California Association of Realtors Lease/Rental Agreement because there's too much stuff in it relating to the rights and responsibilities to/from real estate brokers and agents. We are neither, so we figured it would make sense to create an agreement between us Landlords and you Tenants instead!
Our agreement is longer because we made the font bigger and easier to read and added more white space and made bigger areas to write things in, if needed. Plus, we do have a few additional clauses that spell out more clearly your responsibilities as well as your rights. For example, appliances and utilities only get a few lines of mention in the CAR agreement, but our sections on what appliances and utilies are included take up at least a half page each in ours. The CAR version doesn't even mention that trained dogs for legally blind or disabled persons are allowed; ours does! And so forth. It just seems more fair to include that kind of stuff.