Understand Your Rights
Looking for information about rental rights and responsibilities? See below for common topic-areas.
Not finding the information you're looking for? Be sure to take a look at our list of other topics at the bottom of the page.
Blog
Our Blog has a collection of posts with valuable information for tenants and landlords.
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Dane County residents can talk to a housing counselor about their rental rights and responsibilities. It's free and confidential.
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Sample Letters and Forms
Sample Letters
- Roommate Agreement
- Breaking a lease
- Wrongfully withheld security deposit
- Landlord references to submit with application
- Requesting repairs
- Requesting heat be turned on in unit
- Requesting heat be repaired
- Reply to eviction notice over non-payment of rent
- Reply to eviction notice over rules violations
- Disputing an eviction notice
- Responding to a verbal conversation
- Sample letter for applications to new landlords when renting with a criminal history (Word | PDF)
- Applications to new landlords when your old landlord is giving a bad reference
- Applications to new landlords when you owe money to your old landlord
- Applications to new landlords when you have bad credit history
- Sample letter for requesting reasonable accommodation (Word | PDF)
- Sample letter for requesting ESA reasonable accommodation (Word | PDF)
Formularios y Cartas Modelo
- Carta modelo para solicitar adaptación razonable (Word | PDF)
- Carta modelo para solicitar adaptación razonable para un animal de apoyo ("ESA") (Word | PDF)