My husband and I recently became reluctant landlords when we were unable to sell a small cottage we had built. Rather than discounting the property, we decided to lease it instead.
Having had some experience as a property manager in the past, I knew the importance of having a good rental agreement but wasn’t willing to spend $500 in attorney fees to prepare one. As an alternative, we turned to the Internet in search of sample forms that could be adapted to suit our state. It was on the internet that I found USlegalforms.com, a one-stop legal form shop which claimed to be the “original and premiere site for legal forms on the Internet,” with over 750,000 satisfied customers.
Opening www.uslegalforms.com brings you directly to well designed and user friendly home page with a toll free customer service number posted at the top.
From this home page, users can navigate through the site by clicking on the highlighted subtitles. Since I was interested in a landlord tenant agreement, or lease agreement, I clicked on the link marked “Landlord-Tenant.” Lease agreements aren’t the only forms that USlegalforms.com provides; had I wanted them, I could have selected things like “wills,” “power of attorney form,” and “employment” forms. In fact, the site claims to stock over 36,000 legal forms that are attorney prepared and adapted for your specific state. There are both form packages available and specific form categories that cover a wide range of subjects.
How it works
I found USlegalforms.com to be a very user friendly site that made it very easy to search for just the right form. In my case, clicking on the “Landlord-Tenant” subtitle brought me to a new page that listed some of the more popular lease options. No matter which of the sub-categories I clicked on from there, the next window that appeared ask me to select my state. This brought up the form I needed which could be previewed for free.
USlegalforms.com worked just like any other retail site that allows a buyer to “add to cart” the specific item wanted. USlegalforms.com gives shoppers the option of either buying a downloadable form or having a paper copy sent to the home. For myself, I selected the downloadable form option which was less money. Once entering my personal information and credit card number onto their secure server, I was given a link which opened the form directly. It was really that simple.
Even though I only used the site to purchase two forms, I was really impressed with the ease of use on the site, and the complete thoroughness of the legal forms. I also appreciated having a customer service number posted in two easy-to-find locations on every page in case there was trouble in downloading the forms or a mischarge on my credit card. For folks who need a legal form and know what they want, USlegalforms.com is definitely worth a visit.
