The lease, from first draft to signed.
Answer a few simple questions and your lease is ready. Send it to the tenant, agree on the terms, and both of you sign on your phones. The rules of your state are shown as you write.
Scan the code with your phone's camera. Google Play: coming soon.
Writing a lease is free. A tenant is never asked to pay for anything. I was sent an invite →
If you can fill in a form, you can write a lease.
TenantBinder is made for ordinary landlords and tenants, not lawyers. No blank page, no legal words to learn, no printer.
Answer, don't draft.
Tap the terms you want — rent, deposit, pets — and fill in the numbers. The app writes the lease from your answers.
Plain words for the tenant.
Your tenant can tap any paragraph and see it said simply, or read the whole lease as a short list of points.
Sign from your phone.
No printing, no scanning, no meeting up. Each of you signs on your own phone, wherever you are.
Already on paper?
Take photos of the lease you signed before. The app reads it and keeps it with everything else.
Three moves, and the lease is done.
Write it
Pick the terms you want from a catalog — rent, deposit, pets, utilities, repairs. Each one is a small form, not a blank page. Your state's caps are shown as you go.
Agree on it
Send the tenant an invite link. They read every term, ask for changes in plain words, and give their OK. Nothing moves on until they do.
Sign it
Each signer confirms a code by email and then one by text, draws their signature, and signs in turn. Everyone gets the finished PDF and its certificate.
The state rule appears while the term is still being written.
Deposit caps, entry-notice periods, late-fee limits and rent caps are shown for the place the property is in, with the statute named on the same line.
TenantBinder may provide drafting prompts and suggest available forms for the selected location. These aids address selected requirements only and may be incomplete or outdated. They do not establish that a document or its attachments meet every applicable requirement. You remain responsible for reviewing every provision and attachment and obtaining any necessary independent legal advice.
The rules are data, not code. When a state changes a cap, the change reaches you without waiting for an app release.
51 places carry their own rulebook: all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
A tenant can ask for a change in plain language.
The tenant writes what they want changed in their own words, on the term itself. You answer by changing the term or by saying no, and the request stands on the record as open, applied or declined.
An OK is given against one version of the lease. Edit a term afterwards and that OK stops counting — the tenant is asked again, and the app can show them exactly what moved.
"We agreed $1,850 at the viewing, the listing said $1,850 too. Can we go back to that?"
A finished lease comes with its own proof.
Before anyone can sign, a code goes to their email and then a second one to their phone by text. They draw their signature, and it is stamped into the page they are looking at. Finished pages are flattened to an image. A visible signature image can be copied. The image alone does not establish the integrity or legal validity of the signed document.
Four independent timestamp authorities are asked to stamp every finished document, and the completion certificate names each one that answered — along with who signed what, when, and from where.
The signed lease is the beginning, not the filing cabinet.
Documents stay with the agreement.
The signed lease and its disclosures file themselves the moment signing finishes. Everything the tenancy collects afterwards goes to the same place, under headings that already exist, where both sides can reach it.
- Move-in photos, meter readings and the deposit receipt.
- Monthly bills, notices and repair records, filed by month.
- Either side can ask the other for a document, and see whether it arrived.
Rent follows the lease.
Signing draws the rent schedule from the lease's own terms. The tenant marks a payment as made, the landlord confirms it, and the running total is only ever the confirmed one.
Every change stays in history.
Versions, approvals, change requests and signatures are written to a history the database keeps itself. A push and an email say when something needs you.
Built for residential leases, and honest about the money.
- Rent stays between you and your tenant. TenantBinder keeps the schedule and the record of what was paid, and does not hold, move or take a cut of the money — which is why there is nothing to reconcile at the end of a tenancy.
- It is tooling you drive yourself: it shows your state's caps and names the statute. It is document tooling rather than a law firm, and a lawyer is still a lawyer.
A lease both sides can follow.
Landlords: get the app and write your first lease today. On Android, write to us and we will get you started while the Google Play listing is on its way.
Scan the code with your phone's camera. Google Play: coming soon.
Got an invite from your landlord? Open the link — the portal works in your browser, with nothing to install.