Bilingual Residential Lease Agreement by State (English / Español)

A bilingual residential lease puts the English lease on the left and its Spanish translation on the right, paragraph by paragraph, so a landlord and a tenant who read different languages sign one document they both understand. Pick your state to get the lease with the right framing and the deposit and notice rules that apply there.

Single-language versions: Residential Lease Agreement (English) · Contrato de alquiler residencial (español).

Pick your state, fill in the details once, and download a PDF with English on the left and Spanish on the right. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded. The English column controls if the two ever differ.

When a bilingual lease helps

When the tenant, the landlord, or a co-signer reads Spanish more comfortably than English. A separate translation can drift from the original and raises the question of which copy was signed; a side-by-side document avoids both — there is one page, one set of signatures, and a clause saying the English column controls if the two ever differ. Some jurisdictions also expect a landlord who negotiated mainly in Spanish to give the tenant a Spanish version of the lease; the bilingual layout covers that in the same file.

What it includes

Parties, premises, and date — the same fields as the English lease, filled once
Term, rent, due date, late fee, deposit, utilities, and pets
A governing-law paragraph naming your state, and a language clause (English controls)
One signature block, labeled in both languages, for the landlord and the tenant

State-specific detail — deposit caps, return deadlines, required disclosures, each cited to the statute — lives on the English lease pages. The bilingual page for your state shows the headline rules and links there for the rest.