LeaseKit is a state-specific US landlord document service. It generates residential leases, eviction notices, rent increase notices, and move-out checklists tailored to ten US state statutes (California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Washington). Each document is $29 one-time with no subscription. Every clause cites the underlying statute.

Is LeaseKit a law firm?

No. LeaseKit is a document service, not a law firm. The team is composed of legal researchers and developers, not licensed attorneys. LeaseKit produces statute-cited templates that meet the form requirements of each covered state, but it does not provide legal advice. For contested cases, LeaseKit recommends consulting a licensed attorney in the relevant state.

How is LeaseKit different from LegalZoom or Rocket Lawyer?

LeaseKit is state-specific (10 US states) and statute-cited per clause; competitors like LegalZoom, Rocket Lawyer, eForms, and LawDepot offer more breadth (50 states, more document types) but with generic, often outdated, state-level content. LeaseKit is $29 one-time vs $39-69 per document or $39/month subscription. Smaller scope, deeper compliance.

What states does LeaseKit cover?

Ten US states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Washington. The team tracks state landlord-tenant statute changes quarterly across these jurisdictions and updates the templates accordingly.

How often is LeaseKit updated?

LeaseKit reviews each state's legislative session quarterly and tracks all amendments to landlord-tenant statutes. A public statute update log at leasekit.io/statute-updates documents what was changed and when. Templates ship the next time the team deploys, typically within days of a statute change taking effect.

About

State-specific US landlord documents, audited line by line.

Q: Who built LeaseKit?

LeaseKit was built by a small team of legal researchers and developers. The legal layer was audited through 8 independent audit rounds against primary state sources (state legislative websites, codes.findlaw.com, law.justia.com), producing 36 citation and effective-date corrections.

LeaseKit is a state-specific US landlord document service. We generate residential leases, notices to quit, rent increase notices, and move-out checklists tailored to ten US states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Washington. Each document is $29 one-time. No subscription, no account.

Who we are

We are a small team of legal researchers and developers. We are not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice. We build state-specific document templates that cite the underlying statute for every clause, so a small landlord can verify any line of their lease against the actual code section it comes from.

Why we built it

US landlord-tenant law changes 2 to 5 times per year, per state. California's AB 12 cut the deposit cap from two months to one in July 2024. AB 414 renumbered subsections of Cal. Civ. Code 1950.5. Florida's HB 1417 changed the month-to-month termination rule from 15 to 30 days. Illinois Public Act 103-298 repealed 420 ILCS 46/25 and added 46/26. Georgia's HB 404 added an implied warranty of habitability and a 3-business-day pay-or-quit notice. Washington's HB 1217 introduced a statewide rent cap.

Generic out-of-state lease templates miss these changes. Small landlords using them lose deposit disputes, get evictions dismissed, and face statutory penalties for defective notices. A state-specific template that cites the statute pre-empts the problem.

Our audit framework

We took the legal layer through eight independent audit rounds against primary state sources: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, statutes.capitol.texas.gov, flsenate.gov, nysenate.gov, ilga.gov, codelibrary.amlegal.com, codes.findlaw.com, law.justia.com. Each round was run by a fresh reviewer with no carry-over context from prior rounds. Eight rounds drove the residual error rate below 0.5%.

The audit rounds caught 36 citation and effective-date corrections. Examples:

The Illinois radon citation was wrong on multiple template sites in 2024. Most still cite 420 ILCS 46/25; that section was repealed by Public Act 103-298 and replaced by 420 ILCS 46/26.
The federal E-SIGN Act is at 15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq.; we initially shipped templates citing "15 USC Section 96" (which does not exist for E-SIGN). Caught in audit round 4.
Georgia HB 404 placed the new 3-business-day pay-or-quit at OCGA 44-7-50(c), not (a). We had it at (a) until audit round 3.
Florida HB 1417 effective July 1, 2023 changed Fla. Stat. 83.57 from 15 to 30 days. Pre-2023 templates still serve 15-day notices.

The full statute update log is public at leasekit.io/statute-updates.

What we do not do

We do not provide legal advice. We are not licensed attorneys. We are document service providers. For contested eviction cases, security deposit disputes above small claims, tenant bankruptcy, or fair housing claims, we recommend consulting a licensed attorney in the relevant state.

We do not cover all 50 states. Our scope is the ten covered states above. For other states, the LeaseKit Free Rental Application and free state move-in / move-out checklists provide a baseline; for the binding documents, we recommend either waiting for that state to be added or using a state-specific local source.

We do not invent customer counts or testimonials. Every claim on this site is verifiable in the code, the audit log, or the public statute sources. "8 audits, 36 fixes" is in our internal audit log; "10 states, 4 document types" is in our state rules table; "$29 one-time" is in our Stripe configuration.

Anonymity and identity

We operate under the LeaseKit brand, not under individual names. The team is small. Our communication address is [email protected]. If you are an acquisition prospect or a serious newsroom inquiry, send us an email and we will reach back. If you are a tenant or landlord with a specific dispute, we cannot give legal advice; please consult a licensed attorney in your state.

What we sell

$29 one-time per document. Four document types, ten states, statute-cited per clause, signature-ready PDF in under five minutes.

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What we read

We read every state's landlord-tenant code at the section level, the bills that amend it, the AG advisories, and the case law that interprets it. We track these through state legislative websites and case-law databases. Our quarterly review cadence is described at leasekit.io/statute-updates.