SD–REAL–01 · United States · not scoped to any state · tenant screening
11-page form · 5 sections · plus fill-in checklist, how-to guide and sources · 22 pages across 4 files
An applicant wants to rent the unit, and there is no single form asking for the same information, in the same order, from every applicant. That inconsistency is exactly what turns an honest screening decision into a fair-housing complaint.
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One form, in the order every applicant meets it: identity and current residence, prior residence, income and employment, references, and consent to run a background and credit check. Every applicant answers the same questions in the same order, which is the entire point. An inconsistent set of questions from one applicant to the next is how an honest screening decision turns into a fair-housing complaint. Two federal citations appear, and no others: the Fair Housing Act's seven protected classes, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act's permission-and-purpose rule for a background or credit check. Application fee caps, additional protected classes, and adverse-action notice timing are state and often city law, so every one of those figures is a blank in the form on purpose, not a default you would be held to.
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Businesses like yours usually start with these. It is where a trade starts, not a complete legal inventory of everything it could ever be asked for — no list on any website is that. Every line below says where it came from.
Showing what a real estate brokerage is asked to carry. It is the only trade on our list that needs this document.
Real estate brokerageSix items on the list, one of them a multi-file kit rather than a single document. You are looking at one of them. We sell two of the other five; three we do not have yet.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
Named because leaving them out would make the list look complete when it is not. Tell us which one you need and it goes on the build queue with your trade attached.
REGA regulator asks for this, and which one depends on your state.
OURSNot a rule we can point at — this is what the trade gets asked for.
COMPNot a rule we can point at — it is standard in this trade.
Your state can add to this. We have written down one place where this trade’s set differs from one state to the next. What we sell is written to the federal baseline, and a state that runs its own programme can ask for more than the federal rule does.
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01The form itself, 5 sections with 170 fill-in fields, as a fill-in PDF you can type into
02A 9-question page for looking up your own state's application fee cap, adverse-action notice timing and any protected characteristic your state or city adds, before you hand the form to a single applicant
03Applicant identity, current residence and prior-residence history, in one consistent order for every applicant
04Income and employment, including an other-income table and the income-to-rent figure, with no ratio or credit standard supplied
05References, vehicles and pets, including the fair-housing distinction between a pet and an assistance animal
06Background and credit check consent, quoting the Fair Credit Reporting Act's permission and housing-purpose rules
07The Fair Housing Act's seven protected classes, quoted, and a record that this form asks about none of them
08Certification and signature page, with a record of the decision and whether an adverse-action notice was sent
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These are the real rules this plan is built on. Every citation was read against the published text on the date shown above, and each link goes to the official source, not to a summary.
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One more time, plainly: this is a blank forms and it is scoped to no state. Every state-specific figure in it is left blank for you to fill from your own, and whether what you write in holds is decided by your state's law, often your city's. Check yours before you rely on it.
