roommate contract

Agreement Forms are the official, written, legal contract versions of a handshake sealing the deal. A roommate agreement is specifically the contract made between people who are going to be living together in a residential unit. These contracts outline the rules, terms, and conditions that each candidate for residency must agree to.

Most often you will encounter such a contract in shared apartments as well as in college dormitories.

If you are looking to draft such an agreement, this list of free PDF samples will help provide you with either a reference or a template you can readily use as is.

Simple Roommate Contract Template

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Roommate Agreement Contract

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Roommate Rental Agreement Contract

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College Roommate Contract

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Apartment Roommate Contract

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How to Use These Samples

These are fairly straightforward contracts not much different from your typical Rental Agreement Forms – which are lease (rent) contracts made between landlord and tenant, or tenant and subtenant.

Depending on your situation, you may prefer certain configurations over others.

For example, you might either want a fixed-term or month-to-month rental contract.

  • Fixed-term leases define a limited period when the tenant is permitted (and bound) to live on and use the premises.
  • Month-to-month leases have no defined end-date to the contract; instead it renews every month as long as the tenant continues to pay rent and abides by the contract conditions.

By default many dormitories have tenants sign fixed-term contracts, while a residential apartment may be based month-to-month. In general, month-to-month is relatively rare, since it offers too much flexibility (therefore instability) and is not cost-effective for landlords in the long-term.

Details of a Roommate Agreement Contract

This contract will naturally be a little closer to home in its terms and conditions than a basic landlord-tenant agreement, since the tenants will be sharing close living quarters. And so you will often find these kinds of details in most roommate contracts, many of which are basic to any rental agreement:

  • address of the rented property
  • the date of signing the agreement
  • the dates spanning the effective tenancy period to its end (not applicable to month-to-month agreements)
  • rent amount and frequency of payments
  • a list of facilities provided
  • a list of rules pertaining to acceptable and unacceptable behavior (e.g. noise levels, curfew, etc.)
  • restrictions on use of appliances, keeping of pets, etc.

Month to Month Roommate Contract

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Roommate Breaking Lease Contract

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Roommate Living Agreement Contract

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Legal Roommate Contract

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More Rental Contracts

Roommate Agreement Forms are just one of many contracts in the rental industry, unfortunately. Knowing where to delegate the actual drafting of a commonplace contract is key to running your business in a cost-effective, time-saving way.

We’re here to help. SampleForms.com collects the best and free paperwork samples and templates for some of the most common purposes, so you don’t have to draft them from scratch.

Among the most needed documents in the rental industry are the following:

  • Rental Applications. Application forms tailored for those candidates looking for residency. Will greatly help streamline the process of selecting your tenants.
  • Room Rental Agreement Templates. These are contracts for when you are renting out a room instead of a larger residential unit as a whole apartment or building.
  • House Lease Contracts. For when you are leasing (renting) out a residential building.
  • Short-Term Rental Agreement Templates. For when you are expecting visitors renting for a season, especially useful if you’re running a summer vacation rental or a bed and breakfast.
  • Eviction Notice Templates. At some point or another you will always need these for all sorts of legal and practical documentary purposes.

Find free samples for all these documents and more on SampleForms.com.

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