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Minnesota landlord · tenant screening
Download the Minnesota residential rental application — screens prospective tenants with application-money elections, a standalone screening-report authorization, and the disclosures federal and Minnesota law require — in fillable Word and fillable PDF, with the Minnesota Completion & Use Guide.
Renting out property in more than one state? This page is the Minnesota application — each state's edition is built to its own screening and application-money law.
Includes the six-page fillable Word and PDF application, Minnesota Completion and Use Guide, fillable Minneapolis and Saint Paul Screening Riders, fillable Minnesota Prelease Deposit Agreement, 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.
Minnesota requires written screening criteria and the screening-service name, address, and telephone before a screening fee is accepted. Section 1 also covers unit availability, on-request receipts, sequential processing, statutory refunds and unused portions, and the fee-conditioned 14-day denial notice. The application asks no initial criminal-history question and excludes pending, nonpublic, expunged, destroyed, and non-writ eviction matters.
The kit includes separate Minneapolis and Saint Paul screening riders with inclusive-criteria and individualized-assessment paths, plus a conspicuous separate prelease-deposit agreement. The Completion & Use Guide covers source-neutral income, screening-service explanation and 24-hour court-status duties, adverse action, and records.
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.
Written screening criteria and the screening-service name, address, and telephone. A fee may not be charged when no unit is or reasonably will be available, and applications must be processed sequentially.
Return it when rejection relies on an undisclosed reason or a prior applicant accepts the unit, and return any portion unused for the permitted screening work.
No initial criminal-history question appears. The form excludes pending, nonpublic, expunged, destroyed, and non-writ eviction matters; city riders add stricter limits.
Each city uses an inclusive-criteria or individualized-assessment route. The riders document the 3/7/10-year criminal limits, three-year eviction limit, suppressed records, income exceptions, and city-specific denial procedures.
The Minnesota application, Completion & Use Guide, two city riders, separate prelease-deposit agreement, and federal FCRA Summary; a completed Minneapolis sample is optional.