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See where your lease breaks state law

Upload or paste a lease you already have. Every key clause comes back marked pass, violation, or flagged for review — with the citation either way.

  • Nine clause areas checked
  • Every verdict cited
  • Runs in your browser

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That lease you downloaded years ago? Laws moved on.

Most leases in circulation were copied from a template or a decade-old download, and states keep changing the rules underneath them. The audit reads your actual lease and compares each key clause against your state’s current statute — pass, violation, or flagged for review, with the citation either way.

  1. 01Paste or upload it

    Paste the text or drop the PDF, then pick the state it was written for.

  2. 02Clauses are extracted

    Late-fee, deposit, entry, notice, and disclosure clauses are pulled out and tested.

  3. 03Get a score and verdicts

    Clause by clause: pass, violation, or flagged for review — each with its statute.

  4. 04Rebuild it compliant

    One click regenerates the lease from the state template, disclosures included.

Why audit before you sign or renew

Illegal clauses don’t just fail — some cost you the whole claim.

Bad clauses can be void — or worse

Miss the deposit deadline in New York and you forfeit it entirely. Pennsylvania doubles it.

Deposit caps are new

California moved to one month and Georgia to two in 2024. A fine lease can be over the cap today.

Disclosures are the silent gap

Lead paint, bedbugs, radon, flood history — checked against what your state expects.

The fix is one click

Regenerate from the state template rather than redrafting the clause yourself.

It stays on your device

The scan runs in your browser. The lease is never uploaded to be read.

Every verdict is cited

Pass or fail, you get the section it was judged against — never a bare opinion.

I'd been a landlord for 12 years and used to pay $200 every time I needed a lease reviewed. LawLease took me 4 minutes and the document is better than anything my old attorney emailed me.

Robert M.

3 single-family rentals, Austin, TX

When to run it

Worth running whenever a lease has been sitting a while.

Before reusing an old lease

Years on the same document. Check it against this year’s law before the next signature.

After buying a tenanted property

You inherited the previous owner’s lease. Find out what you agreed to enforce.

Before a dispute escalates

A tenant is pushing back. Know whether the clause you are standing on holds.

Frequently asked questions

No. LawLease is not a law firm. The audit is an automated text scan against researched state statutes, with the citation shown for every verdict. It can miss unusually phrased clauses, and “review” items need human judgment — attorney review is recommended before acting on results.
California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas today — the states where our cited rule set is complete. Unsupported states get an honest “not yet supported” instead of an unreliable answer. More states are added as the researched dataset grows.
The nine state-variable clause areas: late fees (caps, grace periods), security deposit (amount caps, return deadlines, itemization), move-in condition documentation, maintenance obligations, landlord entry notice, pet deposits and fees, default/eviction notice periods, termination notice, and state-required disclosures.
No. Text extraction and the audit run entirely in your browser. Nothing is stored or sent to a server.
Either the clause was found but couldn’t be confidently parsed (ambiguous wording), or a rule has exceptions we can’t determine from text alone — like Georgia’s move-in list exemption for small self-managing owners. The tool flags these for a human instead of guessing.
The scan is free; the fastest fix is regenerating the lease from LawLease’s state-specific template, which writes every flagged clause to the current statute and includes the required disclosures. You can then send it for e-signature in the same flow.

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