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Connecticut Residential Rental Application

Download the Connecticut residential rental application — screens prospective tenants with application-money elections, a standalone screening-report authorization, and the disclosures federal and Connecticut law require — in fillable Word and fillable PDF, with the Connecticut Completion & Compliance Guide.

  • Fillable Word + fillable PDF
  • Connecticut Completion & Compliance Guide included
  • Completed sample available
  • Instant secure download

Renting out property in more than one state? This page is the Connecticut application — each state's edition is built to its own screening and application-money law.

What's in your Connecticut download

Every file below is included: the fillable Word application, a fillable PDF, the Connecticut Completion and Use Guide, and the federal FCRA Summary of Your Rights.

Included files

  • Connecticut Residential Rental Application Core application — completes on screen in the fillable PDF or in Word, then print and sign Word PDF
  • Connecticut Completion & Compliance Guide Money elections, criteria timing, deadlines, refunds, adverse action, and recordkeeping — editable Word; print-ready PDF Word PDF
  • FCRA Summary of Your Rights (CFPB) The federal consumer-rights summary that ships with every screening package — print-ready PDF PDF

Preview the actual form

The real document — not a mockup. Page 1 of the form included in your download.

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Page 1 of the Connecticut Residential Rental Application form
Form PL-CT-RA01 · Page 1 of the actual Connecticut document included in your download.

Inside the Connecticut application

Every part of the form, in order — the application summary, 17 sections, and the office-use panel.

  • Application summary The reasonable-accommodation contact line, property applied for, requested move-in date, offered rent, and stated security deposit.
  • 1. Application Money Disclosure Completed by the owner/manager before distribution: the Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-4d no-fee or tenant-screening-fee election, statutory cap, and receipt-or-invoice and report-delivery duties.
  • 2. About You Identity, contact channels, an electronic-notice election with a paper-mail alternative, and identity-document choices (SSN, ITIN, government-issued ID, or a lawful alternative) — no date-of-birth field anywhere on the form.
  • 3. Other Proposed Occupants Household composition with a separate-signed-application election for each person — ages, birth dates, and adult/minor classifications are never collected; every other adult completes and signs a separate application.
  • 4. Pets and Assistance Animals Household pets only; service and assistance animals are handled as fair-housing accommodations, never as pets.
  • 5. Residential History Current and prior addresses, housing payments, owner/manager contacts, and an optional neutral move reason.
  • 6. Employment & Income Employment plus any lawful source of income, with the Connecticut source-of-income note.
  • 7. Banking or Asset Verification An optional verification election; the form never collects account numbers.
  • 8. References and Emergency Contact An optional personal reference and an emergency contact that is not used for screening.
  • 9. Vehicle Information Vehicle details where parking is requested.
  • 10. Additional Information An open area for lawful qualification information.
  • 11. Screening Criteria Election
  • 12. Reusable or Portable Tenant-Screening Reports The reusable or portable tenant-screening report note — Connecticut has no acceptance mandate; § 47a-4d separately requires delivery of the screening report or request information.
  • 13. Screening Information and Legal Limits No criminal-history self-reporting; erased criminal-history record information is not requested or considered, and Judicial-Branch-removed summary-process records barred from commercial use by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-26j are excluded.
  • 14. Consumer Report Disclosure How consumer reports are obtained and the adverse-action notice commitment.
  • 15. Privacy, Retention, and Disposal Data-minimization commitments under the FCRA and its Disposal Rule.
  • 16. Applicant Declaration The signed certification of accuracy with a verification-contact authorization; electronic and copied signatures honored.
  • 17. Screening Report Disclosure and Authorization The standalone signed authorization, investigative-report notice, agency identification, free-report-copy election, and the federal Summary-of-Your-Rights package insert.
  • For Office Use Only

About this form

A residential rental application is the landlord's first line of protection: it collects the applicant's identity, household composition, rental history, employment and income, and references, and it carries the disclosures and signed authorizations that make lawful tenant screening possible before a lease is signed.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-4d permits only a tenant-screening fee of no more than fifty dollars plus the annual CPI-U adjustment determined by the Commissioner of Housing. This edition records the charge and delivery of the required receipt or invoice and screening report copy or request information.

Connecticut protects lawful source of income and a broad set of housing classes, including erased criminal history record information. The application also excludes Judicial-Branch-removed summary-process records from commercial screening under § 47a-26j.

100% satisfaction guarantee

ILRG provides self-help legal forms and download support. PublicLegal landlord forms are provided for you to complete with your own property and screening information. Screening rules vary by state and change frequently — the Completion & Compliance Guide explains the rules in your state and the steps that keep this application within them. If you are not 100 percent satisfied after purchasing from us, contact us for a refund.

Frequently Asked Questions About Connecticut Rental Applications

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-4d permits a tenant-screening fee of no more than fifty dollars plus the annual CPI-U adjustment determined by the Commissioner of Housing, and no other application or processing fee.

Give the applicant a receipt or invoice and a copy of the screening report, or, where disclosure is prohibited, the information needed to request it from the screening provider.

No. Do not ask for or consider erased criminal-history record information, and do not commercially use Judicial-Branch-removed summary-process records barred by § 47a-26j.

No current statewide Connecticut law requires acceptance of a reusable screening report.

The six-page Connecticut application in fillable Word and PDF, a Completion & Use Guide, and the federal FCRA Summary of Rights. A completed Hartford sample is optional.