Live-In Landlord Starter Kit
Room rental agreement, house rules, move-in report, rent ledger and Utah notice templates. Template only, not legal advice.
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Gentleman Landlords with Aaron Crandall
Practical tools for live-in landlords
Renting rooms in the home you live in is a different job from running an apartment complex. Agreements, screening, notices, and honest math — from fourteen years of doing it myself in Taylorsville, Utah.
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Free tool
Rent Raise vs. Turnover Calculator
Thinking about raising the rent? Fill in what you know and get the honest math: what the raise earns in a year, what one turnover would cost if your tenant decides to leave, and how long the higher rent takes to pay for it.
The plain-English verdict
$1,200
Raise per year
$2,000
One turnover
-$800
First year, net
The raise brings in $1,200 a year, but one turnover costs about $2,000 — you'd come up $800 short if your tenant leaves. If they stay, you still keep the full $1,200. That's the honest risk: this raise is a bet on a good tenant sticking around.
Estimates only, based on the numbers you put in. Template only, not legal advice.
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Templates I actually use
Every one of these came out of my own filing cabinet, written and rewritten over years of renting rooms in my own house. Edit them, use them, make them yours.
Tenant Screening Checklist & Scorecard
The questions to ask, the papers to check, and a simple scorecard to compare applicants fairly. Template only, not legal advice.
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Move-In / Move-Out Inspection Form
A room-by-room walkthrough sheet that protects both sides when someone moves in or out. Template only, not legal advice.
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Late-Rent Notice Templates
Calm, firm, Utah-friendly notices for when rent runs late — written the way a reasonable person would want to receive them. Template only, not legal advice.
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The book
What I wish someone told me in 2012
When I rented out my first room, I made every mistake you can make — and paid for each one. This book is the conversation I needed back then: how to pick tenants, set house rules that hold, handle the awkward money talks, and sleep well while someone lives in your basement. Plain words, real examples, no hype.
About
Still at it
I'm Aaron Crandall. I've been a live-in landlord in Taylorsville, Utah for fourteen years — renting out rooms and a basement apartment in the home I live in, the whole time. I've screened the applicants, written the house rules, raised the rent, fixed the water heater at midnight, and sat across the kitchen table from tenants who became friends. Everything I make comes from that experience, told straight. No hype, no fluff, no pretending I have a hundred-unit portfolio. One house, fourteen years, still learning.