How many of these 43 protections does your rental agreement actually have?
Most operators find out during a chargeback, a holdover, or a lawsuit. This free 10-minute self-audit shows you the gaps while they're still free to fix.
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Try three questions from the audit
Check the box only if your current agreement addresses it explicitly, in writing.
Your agreement covers 0 of these 3 — the full checklist asks 40 more.
Most rental agreements are a handshake with formatting
The moment you discover a gap in your agreement is almost always the moment it starts costing you money.
A lease downloaded years ago. A few paragraphs borrowed from a Facebook group. House rules that live in a welcome binder instead of a signed document. It all works fine — right up until the guest who knows the system better than you do.
A chargeback lands and you have no signed billing acknowledgment. A guest stops paying and claims tenant status, and now you're facing an eviction timeline instead of a checkout time. A "visitor" moves in with mail addressed to your property.
Every one of these has a clause that prevents it. The audit shows you which ones you're missing.
What the self-audit covers
Forty-three yes-or-no questions, organized the way disputes actually happen. Open your current agreement, go line by line, and count your checkmarks.
The legal foundation
6 questions
Innkeeper vs. tenant status, party-wide liability, removal authority, and holdover — the clauses that decide whether a bad guest is a checkout problem or a court problem.
Payments & money protection
8 questions
Chargebacks, deposits, early departures, cancellations, and who pays the attorney when you have to enforce any of it.
Property & occupancy rules
14 questions
Pests, pets, entry rights, occupancy caps, inventory, utilities, mail, and the pool — the everyday clauses that quietly carry the most liability.
Conduct & enforcement
15 questions
Prohibitions, e-signatures, indemnification, camera disclosure — plus whether you could hand a responding officer one page explaining your right to remove a guest.
Why this checklist exists
I'm Vivian Yip — Amazon #1 bestselling author of The Frictionless MTR System, host of The Mid-Term Rental Movement podcast, and a former Apple operations program manager who now runs a property management company overseeing about 30 rentals, alongside a corporate housing network of more than 1,000 properties.
At that volume, agreements stop being paperwork and start being infrastructure. Every question on this checklist exists because somewhere, some operator learned it the expensive way. You can learn it in ten minutes instead.
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