A Maine-compliant lease with every disclosure the state requires built in, not bolted on — 8 state-specific clauses plus 11 universal ones. Fill it in, e-sign it, and it lives with the tenant record.
Maine requires landlords to give tenants radon test results and a bedbug disclosure before a lease is signed, and caps late fees at 4% of monthly rent — chargeable only once rent is 15 days late (14 M.R.S. § 6028). A rent increase needs 45 days’ written notice...
These are the clauses and disclosures our Maine template carries. Each cites the statute it comes from; the ones marked checkbox are filled from your property's answers.
14 M.R.S. § 603114 M.R.S. § 603314 M.R.S. § 6021 / § 6021-A14 M.R.S. § 6021-A (Bedbug History Disclosur...No statewide ME requirement (general disclos...14 M.R.S. § 6030-C (Energy-Efficiency Disclo...14 M.R.S. § 6030-D (Radon Disclosure)22 M.R.S. § 1580-A (Required Written Smoking...Yes — the cap is two months’ rent, and it must be returned within 21–30 days (14 M.R.S. §§ 6032, 6033, 6038). The template states both in the deposit clause.
4% of monthly rent See 14 M.R.S. §§ 6015, 6028. The template carries the rule and the grace period you set.
For any building built before 1978, yes — it is federal (42 U.S.C. § 4852d). The template includes the EPA pamphlet acknowledgment automatically.
Yes. Electronic signatures are valid under the federal E-SIGN Act and Maine's UETA; the signed PDF, audit trail and timestamps are stored with the tenant record.
Every paragraph is editable before signing. Clauses Maine requires are marked and cannot be removed by accident.
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Free, e-signature included, every Maine disclosure already in it.
The clause list mirrors the Maine disclosure set in the My Rental Spot lease builder and is reviewed against Maine Revised Statutes, Title 14, Chapters 709 and 710-B. General information for landlords, not legal advice; local ordinances can add requirements.