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Rhode Island Residential Rental Application

Download the Rhode Island residential rental application — screens prospective tenants with application-money elections, a standalone screening-report authorization, and the disclosures federal and Rhode Island law require — in fillable Word and fillable PDF, with the Rhode Island Tenant Selection Criteria sheet, the Rhode Island Completion & Use Guide.

  • Fillable Word + fillable PDF
  • Rhode Island Completion & Use Guide included
  • Rhode Island Tenant Selection Criteria sheet included
  • Completed sample available
  • Instant secure download

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

What's in your Rhode Island download

Includes the six-page fillable Word and PDF application, Rhode Island No-Fee and Screening-Report Notice, Rhode Island Completion & Use Guide, and federal FCRA Summary of Rights.

Included files

  • ri-residential-rental-application.docx Included file Word
  • ri-no-fee-notice.md Included file File
  • ri-guide.md Included file File
  • ri-residential-rental-application.pdf Included file PDF
  • FCRA Summary of Your Rights (CFPB) The federal consumer-rights summary that ships with every screening package — print-ready PDF PDF

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

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Form PL-RI-RA01 · Page 1 of the actual Rhode Island document included in your download.

Inside the Rhode Island 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
  • 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 Rhode Island 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
  • 13. Screening Information and Legal Limits
  • 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.

Rhode Island prohibits application fees for landlords, lessors, sublessors, brokers, property managers, and designees. Only the documented actual cost of a uniformly required official state criminal background check or credit report may be passed through; a qualifying report supplied within 90 days waives the corresponding charge, and every charged report must be copied to the applicant.

This edition removes age, date-of-birth, marital-status, familial-status, source-of-income, immigration/citizenship, eviction, and criminal-history inquiries. Lawful income verification is limited to source, amount, and expected duration. The owner-occupied three-or-fewer-unit exception applies only to source-of-income refusal.

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions About Rhode Island Rental Applications

No. Section 34-18-59 prohibits application fees and applies to landlords, lessors, sublessors, brokers, property managers, and designees.

Only documented actual cost for a uniformly required official state criminal background check or credit report. A corresponding report supplied within 90 days waives the charge, and a copy of every charged report is mandatory.

The application asks no age or birth date, marital or familial status, immigration or citizenship status, eviction history, or criminal-history self-report question.

Verification is limited to source, amount, and expected duration and accepts lawful income and subsidies. The owner-occupied three-or-fewer-unit exception concerns source-of-income refusal only.

The Rhode Island application in fillable Word and PDF, No-Fee and Screening-Report Notice, Completion & Use Guide, and federal FCRA Summary; a completed sample is optional.