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Delaware landlord · tenant screening
Download the Delaware residential rental application — screens prospective tenants with application-money elections, a standalone screening-report authorization, and the disclosures federal and Delaware law require — in fillable Word and fillable PDF, with the Delaware Tenant Selection Criteria sheet, the Delaware Completion & Use Guide.
Renting out property in more than one state? This page is the Delaware application — each state's edition is built to its own screening and application-money law.
Includes the six-page fillable Word and PDF application, Delaware Application Fee Cap Notice, Wilmington Rental Criteria and Occupancy Rider, Delaware Completion & Use Guide, and federal FCRA Summary of Rights.
The real document — not a mockup. Page 1 of the form included in your download.
Every part of the form, in order — the application summary, 17 sections, and the office-use panel.
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.
Delaware limits an application fee to the greater of 10% of monthly rent or $50 and also to the specific investigation cost. This edition records both limits, the full receipt, two-year fee records, and six-month application retention.
The application uses source-neutral criteria, explains the temporary 2026–2028 voucher protection and PHA-process exception, asks no initial criminal-history question, and includes a Wilmington rider with its 40% net-income and square-foot occupancy rules regardless of age.
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 & Use 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.
No more than the greater of 10% of monthly rent or $50, and never more than the specific investigation cost. Give a full receipt.
Keep complete application-fee records at least two years and every prospective-tenant application record at least six months.
Temporary source-of-income protection took effect January 1, 2026 and sunsets December 31, 2028 unless extended, with a narrow PHA-process exception.
Yes. The included rider records Wilmington’s 40% net-income presumptions and dwelling/sleeping-room square-foot rules, applied regardless of age.
The fillable application, fee-cap notice, Wilmington rider, Completion & Use Guide, and federal FCRA Summary; a completed sample is optional.