• Residential or commercial

  The wording follows the kind of property you lease.

• Address and unit

  Give the unit, or leave a line for the tenant to write it.

• Emergency contacts

  The number to call in an emergency, with a backup phone and email if you want them.

• Blanks for the tenant

  Date and time requested, the tenant's name and contact, the location and a description of the work.

• An internal-use box

  Whether it was an emergency, whether the work is complete, the date and time, and notes.

• A lawyer reviews it before it is used

  Your answers are prepared into a draft and reviewed by a qualified lawyer, rather than handed back to you as a finished form.

A maintenance request form gives a tenant one place to tell a landlord what needs fixing: when they are asking, who they are, where on the property the problem is and what it is. It also gives the landlord a section for internal use to note whether it was an emergency, whether the work was done and when.

This builder asks whether the property is residential or commercial, its address and unit, the phone number a tenant should call in a maintenance emergency with optional backup contacts, and who is leasing the property out. The request details and maintenance details are left as blank lines for the tenant to complete by hand.

The form does not say how quickly a landlord must respond, what counts as an emergency, or what a tenant may do if a request is not acted on. Those depend on the lease and your state.

Not sure? Talk to an attorney about your situation first.

These are separate documents, for different jobs.

• Residential lease agreementsSet the terms for renting a home.View document
• Commercial lease agreementsSet the terms for renting business premises.View document
• Notice-to-enter documentsGive a tenant notice before entering the property.View document
• Lease Warning NoticeWarn a tenant of a lease violation and ask for a fix.View document

• A tenant reports a leaking tap
• A commercial tenant asks for a repair to the unit
• Keeping a log of requests and when they were completed

• Lease termination noticesGive notice to end a lease.View document
• Late-rent noticesNotify a tenant that rent is overdue.View document
• Eviction noticesThe formal notice that starts the eviction process.View document
• Notice-to-enter documentsGive a tenant notice before entering the property.View document