Free Rental Application Form
Fill in the application and download it completed — residence history, income, household, references and the screening authorization, in a document a landlord can actually read. Word & PDF, generated on your device. No signup, and no Social Security number asked for.
- Free
- No signup
- Word & PDF
- No SSN asked
How it works
- 01 Name the place
The address you are applying for, the rent, and when you would like to move in.
- 02 Residence and income
Where you live now, your landlord, your employer and your gross monthly income.
- 03 Household and references
Who would move in, pets, vehicles, references and anything you want the landlord to know.
- 04 Download and send it
A completed Word or PDF, generated on your device — nothing is uploaded to us.
FAQ
Rental application questions
- What does a rental application ask for?
- Four things, in roughly this order: who you are and how to reach you; where you have been living, for how long, what you pay and who your landlord is; what you do and what you earn before tax, with someone who can confirm it; and who else would be moving in, along with pets, vehicles and references. Landlords use it to verify that you can afford the rent and that your previous landlord would rent to you again. Everything else on the form is detail around those two questions.
- Why doesn’t this form ask for my Social Security number?
- Because this tool runs entirely in your browser and saves a draft to your device’s local storage — and a Social Security number does not belong in a browser draft that exists only so you can come back to a half-finished form. Landlords who run a credit or background check collect the identifiers they need through their own screening service, where that data is handled under the rules that apply to it. The same reasoning applies to date of birth. If a particular landlord needs those, give them separately, through whatever secure channel they use.
- Is a rental application a lease?
- No, and the form says so. Applying is an offer to be considered — it does not create a tenancy and it does not commit the landlord to anything. The landlord can accept or decline it, subject to fair-housing and consumer-reporting law. The lease is a separate document you sign afterwards.
- What is the screening authorization paragraph for?
- A landlord generally needs your written permission before obtaining a consumer report about you — credit, rental history or background. The paragraph in this application gives that permission, and limits it to evaluating this application for tenancy. You can turn it off if the landlord uses their own authorization form instead.
- Can a landlord charge me an application fee?
- Often, but it is regulated. Several states cap what a screening fee can be, require a receipt or an itemization of what it was spent on, and require any unused part to be refunded; a few restrict them further. The form leaves a line for the fee in the landlord’s section and points to the rule. Check your state before you pay one, and before you charge one.
- I am a landlord — can I use this to collect applications?
- Yes. Send applicants the link to this page; each of them fills it in and sends you back a completed Word or PDF rather than a scan of a blank form filled in by hand. Nothing reaches us in the process — the documents are generated in the applicant’s browser. Treat what comes back the way you would any application file, and apply the same criteria to everyone.
- Is this legal advice?
- No. Free Contract Generator provides self-help templates and general information, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created. Tenant screening is governed by fair-housing and consumer-reporting law and by state and local rules; consult a licensed attorney about your situation.