Books written by Janet Portman

First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting out a Single-Family Home

Follow the advice in this book to ease into your new role and earn substantial profits while avoiding costly mistakes. • Learn your legal obligations. • Estimate costs and profits. • Choose good tenants and avoid problem ones. • ...
Leases and Rental Agreements

This excellent book should be required reading for all landlords and tenants-.It is easy reading- yet filled with important- accurate and profitable information - Robert Bruss, nationally syndicated columnist.
Renters' Rights: The Basics

This Legal Basics book, bursting with legal and practical advice, covers tenants' rights in all 50 states.Written in plain English, Renters' Rights presents important topics such as: leases and rental agreements; discrimination; rent; ...
Renters' Rights: The Basics

Provides legal and practical information for renters about such topics as rent rules, leases and rental agreements, illegal discrimination, privacy rights, security deposits, and repairs and maintenance.
Renters' Rights

This edition is completely updated to reflect changes to state laws. It also includes more details on rent control and COVID-19-related advice for renters. Are you a California resident? Check out California's Tenants' Rights
Renters' Rights

This edition is completely updated to reflect changes to state laws. It also includes more details on rent control and COVID-19-related advice for renters. Are you a California resident? Check out California's Tenants' Rights
Renters' Rights: The Basics. 4th Edition.

Please note that this edition is now out of print and has been replaced by the 5th edition, also available through MyiLibrary .
Renters' Rights: Here's What Every Tenant Needs to Know

Renters' Rights: Here's What Every Tenant Needs to Know
First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-Family Home

This book provides an authoritative, easy-to-read primer on how to enter the rental property business.
California Tenants' Rights

"California Tenants' Rights provides you with the specific, current information you need, and discusses how to: understand and negotiate a lease break a lease with minimum fall-out get your security deposit back "--
The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities

This book contains a unique rent control chart that explains key provisions and gives information on how to learn more. No California landlord can afford to do business without checking for local ordinances and following them.
Renters' Rights: The Basics

This 8th edition, featuring easy-to-use summaries of each state’s laws, is completely updated and revised to reflect the key landlord-tenant laws of your state. Are you a California resident? Check out California's Tenants' Rights
Every Tenant's Legal Guide. 4th Edition.

Please note that this edition is now out of print and has been replaced by the 5th edition, also available through MyiLibrary .
Every Landlord's Legal Guide

Use this top-selling book to: screen and choose tenants prepare leases and rental agreements avoid discrimination charges hire a property manager keep up with repairs and maintenance reduce the chance of personal injury lawsuits make ...
Every Tenant's Legal Guide

The only book of its kind, Every Tenant's Legal Guide gives you the legal and practical information you need to deal with your landlord, roommates and other tenants, and protect your rights when things go wrong.
Leases & Rental Agreements

Anyone who owns or manages residential real estate, in any state, should buy this book, with its solid lease that can be tailored to the laws of each state, plus additional rental documents needed to start a tenancy.
Every Landlord's Legal Guide

Residential landlords will find the answers they need to screen and choose tenants and write a legal rental agreement. This handbook also covers how to comply with laws concerning tenancy...
Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants

"Let this book guide you through the process of attracting, screening and choosing the best renters possible"--Page 4 of cover.
Every Landlord's Legal Guide

"This popular book gives every landlord and property manager the legal and practical information they need.
Every Landlord's Legal Guide

Whether you have one unit or one hundred, this book will give you the legal and practical information you need to comply with your state's laws, find and keep good tenants, and avoid legal trouble.