Michigan Residential Rental Application

Inside the Michigan 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 no-fee or disclosed-fee election, with no statutory cap or refund duty and a reasonableness and uniformity caution.
• 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 lawful income; MCL 37.2502(3), effective April 2, 2025, requires covered landlords to count vouchers and subsidies toward income thresholds, subject to the fewer-than-five-unit exemption.
• 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 The Michigan screening criteria election — no statutory criteria sheet is required, but it records whether written criteria were delivered before a fee or report authorization.
• 12. Reusable or Portable Tenant-Screening Reports The reusable or portable tenant-screening report note — Michigan has no current acceptance mandate; SB 372 remains pending and is not law.
• 13. Screening Information and Legal Limits The exact Elliott-Larsen housing classes and consistent criminal-screening criteria; Detroit delays criminal-history access until conditional acceptance.
• 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 An unnumbered owner/manager-only panel for the fee, criteria-delivery, decision, refund, and federal adverse-action records; safeguard personal information under MCL 445.72.