Renting by the room? Start here, free.
A calculator for whether rooms beat the whole house, a per-bedroom lease, house rules and a playbook for running a shared home. Plus the everyday landlord calculators and forms. Everything here is free, and only the PDF signer asks for an email, to send you your signed copy.
Everything for a house rented room by room.
Check the numbers, sign each room on its own lease, set the house rules, and run the house.
The whole kit in one place, in order: numbers, lease, house rules, move-in, utilities and a room turnover checklist.
Open the kitThe same house rented whole or room by room: monthly income, costs and cash flow, side by side.
Open the calculatorOne rent for the whole house, divided between the bedrooms by size and private bathroom. The rooms always add up to your target.
Open the calculatorWhat an empty bedroom costs by the day and by the year, and how many days sooner a lower rent has to fill it to pay for itself.
Open the calculatorOne bill split between housemates by the days each lived there, with mid-month move-ins and what you cover.
Open the calculatorThe last day to return a deposit in every state, worked out from the move-out day, with a link to each state's law.
Open the calculatorA fair cleaning rota for a shared house: each job rotates among the people who share it, and it prints on one sheet.
Open the calculatorTap the nights a guest stayed. It counts nights in a row and nights in any 30 days, names the night the limit was passed and writes the note.
Open the calculatorA per-bedroom lease in plain language: individual rent, shared spaces, utilities and house rules.
Get the templatePrintable rules for a shared house: kitchen, storage, cleaning rotation, guests and violations.
Get the templatePricing rooms, screening housemates, splitting utilities, turnover and house rules, in one guide.
Read the playbookSix steps, in order: when to switch, the four things to export, what does not come over, and the note to send residents.
Read the guideFill in and sign any PDF or a photo of a paper form, right on your phone. The signed copy is emailed to you as a secure download link.
Sign a documentLandlord calculators
Each one runs in your browser and explains the math underneath it.
Partial first or last month, with the daily rate shown so you can explain the number.
Open the calculatorFlat fee after the grace day plus daily accrual, with the total shown as a share of rent.
Open the calculatorNet operating income over purchase price, with the yearly operating income shown.
Open the calculatorWhat your down payment earns each year, after the mortgage, vacancy, and maintenance.
Open the calculatorMonthly rent against purchase price, plus the rent a property would need to reach 1%.
Open the calculatorAn applicant's rent-to-income ratio and income multiple, for screening.
Open the calculatorThe full yearly cost of a management company: monthly fee, leasing fees, and repair markups.
Open the calculatorRental paperwork, ready to print.
Plain, generic forms you can print today. They are a starting point, not legal advice — check your own state's requirements, and have an attorney review anything you plan to rely on in a dispute.
Printable room-by-room condition form with photo log and signature lines.
Room-by-room comparison against move-in, with space for deposit deductions.
Blank notice for a resident leaving or a landlord not renewing, with a delivery record.
The questions to ask before an application fee, with a fair-housing reminder.
Renting by the room? The free room rental lease is above. For a whole home, RentCaddie's lease templates are built per property type, filled from the deal, signed electronically, and amended by signed addendum rather than overwritten.
The same math runs inside RentCaddie, on every lease.
Rent posts itself for each room, the utility bill splits by the days each resident lived there, and every deposit, fee and payment lands on the ledger.
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