What This Site Is
ArizonaLeaseAgreement.com is an independent guide to Arizona's residential lease rules, written for ordinary landlords and tenants rather than for lawyers. It explains what the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act requires, and it lists the justice courts that hear landlord and tenant cases in each of the state's fifteen counties.
It is published by Kaktus Productions. It is not affiliated with the State of Arizona, with the Arizona Department of Housing, with any Arizona court, or with any county or city government.
What This Site Is Not
We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice. Nothing here is advice about your situation, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship with anybody. Whether a rule applies to a particular arrangement often depends on facts this site cannot know.
We do not prepare documents. The lease forms this site describes are produced and sold by Standard Legal, an independent company. We do not draft them, review them, or vouch for their suitability for your situation.
We do not provide a lawyer service. The question-and-answer service this site links to is operated by JustAnswer, independently of us.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site earns money through affiliate arrangements. There are two, and they are the only ones:
- Standard Legal — lease agreement forms and a document preparation service. If you buy through a link here, we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
- JustAnswer — an independent legal question-and-answer service, sold as a membership rather than as a single answer. If you join through a link here, we may receive a commission. Any fees you pay go directly to JustAnswer. What the membership is, and what it is not, is set out on the ask a lawyer page.
Affiliate links carry a sponsored attribute so they are identifiable as such. The two Standard Legal prices are quoted on the lease form page, because a reader deciding whether to buy needs them; they are the prices Standard Legal published when the page was written, and their own page governs. Elsewhere on the site the rule about money is narrower than it may look, so it is worth setting out. Where a figure is written into a statute — a civil penalty, a service fee cap, the ceiling on a repair a tenant may deduct — we give it as the statute gives it, and link to the section so it can be checked. Where a figure is set administratively and drifts — court filing fees above all — we describe it structurally rather than as an amount, because a stale number is worse than none. Deposit limits are expressed by the statute as a multiple of rent rather than as a sum, so no figure arises there at all. And a number invented to carry a worked example — a rent of four hundred a month, say — is an illustration rather than a statement about what anything costs.
If either arrangement changes, or another is added, this section will be updated to describe it.
Limits of the Information Here
Arizona has three separate landlord and tenant regimes. This site covers the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, which governs ordinary house and apartment leases. It does not cover the Arizona Mobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, which governs lot leases in mobile home parks, or the general landlord and tenant provisions that apply to commercial tenancies. If your situation falls under one of those, the rules described here are the wrong ones.
Court details change. Arizona has been consolidating rural justice courts — Santa Cruz in 2019, Graham and La Paz in 2023 — and courts move, merge and change their hours. Everything on the county pages was checked in August 2026. Confirm with the court before relying on it for a filing.
Law changes. Statutory provisions are described as they stood when the page was written. One provision covered here, on the repealed residential rental tax, is itself scheduled to be repealed at the start of 2027.
If You Need Advice
Use a lawyer. Where a question turns on Arizona law specifically, use one licensed in Arizona. The ask a lawyer page explains one route to that and is honest about its limits.