Terms of Use

LawLease provides software that helps you assemble a residential lease using state-aware legal templates that have been drafted and reviewed by licensed attorneys. We are not a law firm, and using the Service does not create an attorney–client relationship between you and LawLease.

The documents we generate are forms — your responsibility is to review them, fill them in correctly, and decide whether they fit your situation. If you have a complex situation or any doubt (commercial property, eviction in progress, multi-unit, regulated housing), please consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract under the law of the jurisdiction you’re creating a lease for. You also represent that you are legally authorized to lease the property in question — either as the owner or as an agent acting with the owner’s authorization. By using LawLease you represent that you meet these requirements and that the information you provide is accurate.

Account holders (landlords).You’re responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity under your account. Tell us immediately at hello@lawlease.org if you suspect unauthorized access. To close your account, email hello@lawlease.org — closure is final and removes access to drafts and signed documents, so please download anything you need first.

Signing recipients (tenants and co-signers).When a landlord invites you to sign a lease via LawLease, you access a signing session without creating a full account. By clicking “Sign and submit,” you agree to be bound by these Terms to the extent they apply to the signing process, and you consent to receive the executed document and audit trail electronically. Your privacy rights are described in our Privacy Policy.

When LawLease offers a free trial, it is available to new subscribers only (one per person and per household). At the end of the trial period, your plan will automatically convert to a paid subscription at the then-current rate unless you cancel before the trial ends.

To avoid being charged, cancel at least 24 hours before your trial expires from your account settings or by emailing billing@lawlease.org. Trial abuse (creating multiple accounts to obtain repeated free access) may result in account termination.

Some LawLease features require a paid subscription. Pricing is shown at checkout and may change with at least 30 days’ notice for existing subscribers. Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period until cancelled. To cancel, use your account settings or email billing@lawlease.org at least 24 hours before your next renewal date. Access continues through the end of the current billing period after cancellation.

After your subscription ends, your account enters a read-only grace period of 30 days during which you can download your documents. After that, draft and render data may be purged. Signed (executed) leases are retained as required by our Privacy Policy.

Refunds are handled on a case-by-case basis — email billing@lawlease.org. Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. Your card details are sent directly to Stripe and never stored on our servers.

You retain full ownership of the leases and signed documents you create on LawLease. We claim no rights to the content of your documents.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to host, store, and transmit the document and the parties’ signature data only to operate the Service (e.g. delivering it to signers, generating PDF renders, retaining an audit trail). We do not use your document content to train models, sell to third parties, or analyze it for marketing.

Signatures captured through LawLease are intended to satisfy the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) in states that have adopted it. We capture an audit trail (signer identity, timestamp, IP address, document hash) for every signing event. The audit trail is appended to the executed PDF and is available for download by all parties.

E-signatures are notvalid for documents that the law requires to be signed on paper or notarized in person — for example, wills, trusts, certain real-estate deed transfers, and court filings. LawLease residential leases generally do not fall into these categories, but it’s your responsibility to confirm for your situation. See our full Electronic Records & Signatures Disclosure.

LawLease is committed to equal housing opportunity. By using the Service, you agree to comply with the federal Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 3601–3619) and all applicable state and local fair housing laws, which prohibit discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, disability, and, under many state laws, additional protected characteristics such as source of income, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and immigration status.

You agree not to:

• Include discriminatory terms, conditions, or restrictions in any lease you create or send through LawLease.
• Use LawLease to screen, select, or reject tenants on the basis of any protected characteristic.
• Advertise or communicate any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on a protected class through the Service.

LawLease’s templates are designed to avoid discriminatory language, but modifications you make are your sole responsibility. We may suspend or terminate accounts if we have reason to believe the Service is being used in violation of fair housing laws. LawLease is not responsible for user-added content that violates these laws. See our Legal Disclaimer for more on your legal obligations as a landlord.

Our templates are drafted and periodically reviewed by licensed attorneys. However, landlord-tenant laws change frequently — sometimes multiple times per year — and we cannot guarantee that any template reflects the most recent legislative amendments, local ordinances, or court interpretations at the moment you use it.

Each template carries a “Last reviewed” date. You are responsible for verifying that the template you use is current for your jurisdiction and property type before sending it to a tenant. When in doubt, have a licensed attorney in your state review the final document before execution.

LawLease makes no representation that the Service covers every state, every property type, or every tenancy structure. We currently support California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and Texas residential leases only.

LawLease integrates with the following third-party services to operate the platform. Each provider’s use of your information is governed by their own privacy policy:

• Stripe — payment processing and subscription management.
• Supabase — database hosting and file storage.
• Resend — transactional and signing invitation emails.
• Vercel — application hosting and CDN.
• PostHog — product analytics and feature flags (self-hosted proxy; data does not leave our infrastructure unprocessed).
• Sentry — application error monitoring.
• Google — optional Google sign-in (Google Identity Services).

We are not responsible for the practices of these third-party providers. Links to their privacy policies are available in our full Privacy Policy.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to create documents you are not legally entitled to create.
• Upload anything illegal, infringing, defamatory, or fraudulent.
• Include terms in any lease that violate the Fair Housing Act or any applicable fair housing law.
• Attempt to reverse-engineer the Service, scrape templates, or access another user’s account or documents.
• Send unsolicited bulk email through our signing invitation system, or use it to harass, intimidate, or threaten anyone.
• Resell or sublicense the Service without our written permission.
• Create multiple accounts to circumvent trial limits, subscription requirements, or account suspensions.
• Use automated tools, bots, or scripts to access or interact with the Service in a way that degrades performance for other users.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules, with or without notice. We will cooperate with law enforcement investigations involving illegal use of the Service.

The Service, including the wizard logic, template library, design system, brand marks, and documentation, is owned by LawLease LLC and protected by US and international copyright and trade secret law. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service only as these Terms allow. All other rights are reserved.

If you believe that content on LawLease infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (b) identification of the infringing material and its location on our platform; (c) your contact information; (d) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you are the rights holder or authorized to act on their behalf; and (f) your physical or electronic signature.

Send DMCA notices to: legal@lawlease.org with subject line “DMCA Notice.” We will respond promptly and, where appropriate, remove or disable access to the claimed material. Counter-notifications may be submitted to the same address.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, LawLease disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.

We don’t guarantee that any specific lease will be enforceable in your jurisdiction. We update templates as laws change, but you are responsible for the final document. LawLease is not responsible for a lease being unenforceable due to user-made modifications, missing required local addenda, or changes in law that occurred after a template was last reviewed.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, LawLease’s total liability for any claim arising from your use of the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or (b) US $100. We are not liable for indirect, consequential, special, incidental, or punitive damages, including lost rent, lost profits, lost data, or the cost of a legal dispute arising from a document generated through the Service, even if we’ve been advised of the possibility.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain types of damages, so the above may not apply to you in full.

You agree to defend and indemnify LawLease against any third-party claim arising from (a) your use of the Service, (b) the documents you generate, modify, or send through the Service, (c) your violation of these Terms or any law, or (d) your violation of any third party’s rights, including fair housing rights. We will handle our own defense against claims based on the Service itself working as designed.

Neither party is liable for delays or failures in performance caused by circumstances beyond their reasonable control, including natural disasters, acts of government, power or network outages, labor disputes, pandemics, or failures of third-party infrastructure providers (including cloud hosting or payment processors). We will make reasonable efforts to restore the Service as quickly as possible and notify users of extended outages.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Informal resolution first. Before filing a lawsuit or arbitration, you agree to email legal@lawlease.org describing your claim in detail. We will attempt in good faith to resolve the issue within 30 days. If we cannot, either party may proceed to formal dispute resolution.

Arbitration.If informal resolution fails, you and LawLease agree to resolve any dispute through binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court — except that either party may bring a claim in small-claims court if it qualifies. The arbitration will take place in Delaware or by video, and the arbitrator’s decision is final and binding. You can opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing legal@lawlease.org with subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out” and your full name and email address. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

Class action waiver.You and LawLease each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims or preside over any form of class proceeding.

If the arbitration agreement does not apply to a claim (e.g., because you validly opted out), that claim will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

We may update these Terms when our Service or laws change. We’ll post the revised version here, update the “Last updated” date, and email registered users 14 days in advance of any material change. Continued use of the Service after the effective date means you accept the new Terms.

Questions about these Terms? Email legal@lawlease.org or visit our support page.