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Rhode Island landlord · tenant screening
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.