Scan your rental lease before it costs you.

LeasePatrol is built for renters. Plenty of landlords are fair and want a clean lease as much as you do, but our job is to read your agreement from your side: checking it against the law and flagging fees or terms that could cost you. So the analysis you get is always in your interest.

You upload a PDF or a photo of your lease. We pull out every clause, compare it against your state and city's landlord-tenant law, and flag anything that's unenforceable, financially risky, or worth negotiating. The free version gives you a risk score and a category breakdown. The paid Action Kit gives you the exact clauses, the statute behind each flag, and a negotiation email you can send as-is.

No — LeasePatrol reviews residential rental leases only: apartments, houses, condos, and rooms you rent to live in. We don't handle commercial, office, retail, car, or equipment leases.

No, and we say that at every step, including before you upload anything. LeasePatrol is a software tool that gives you information and a starting point for negotiating. If you're facing an eviction, a lawsuit, or anything with real legal stakes, talk to a tenant lawyer or your local legal aid office.

Both, at different stages. Software reads your lease and matches clauses to the relevant law, and yes, that includes an AI model. But the law text itself — the actual statutes we compare your lease against — comes from official state government sources and is reviewed before it goes live, not scraped and trusted blindly. The AI applies the law; it doesn't get to decide what the law says.

Unless you're a real estate attorney, it's genuinely hard to spot on your own. Landlords sometimes include terms that don't hold up — waiving your right to a habitable unit, non-refundable deposits where local law requires them refundable, fees that exceed what's legally allowed. LeasePatrol checks your lease against your specific state and city's rules and tells you exactly which lines are the problem.

A few that show up often: making tenants pay for all repairs including structural ones, waiving the landlord's liability for their own negligence, unrestricted entry without notice, and late fees that exceed what state law caps them at. Where these appear, they're typically unenforceable even though they're printed in the contract.

No — but plenty of landlords count on tenants not knowing that and paying or complying anyway. Signing a lease with an illegal clause in it doesn't make that clause enforceable. It just means you now know something your landlord was hoping you wouldn't.

We're live in California, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Texas right now, including New York City's local housing code layered on top of state law. We add a new state once its law database has been built and checked, not before — so coverage grows, but we won't claim a state is covered until it actually is.

It depends entirely on your state and what's actually going on — a job relocation, a safety issue, an uninhabitable unit, or just wanting out are all treated differently under the law. Upload your lease and select your state, and we'll tell you what your state's early-termination rules say and what your lease claims separately, since those two things don't always match.

A lawyer might take days and charge a few hundred dollars for the same review. LeasePatrol gives you a full risk breakdown in a minute or two — long enough to matter during the 24 hours most renters get to decide before the apartment is gone.

One hidden fee or one penalty clause can cost you hundreds of dollars over a 12-month lease. A free scan costs you nothing and takes less time than reading the lease itself.

Usually not, if they conflict with your state's implied warranty of habitability — the baseline legal requirement that a rental be safe and livable regardless of what the lease says. We flag 'as-is' language specifically so you're not stuck covering a landlord's deferred maintenance.