Free Alaska Residential Lease Agreement
A configurable Alaska residential lease agreement that generates a signable multi-page PDF. Built to the Alaska Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act — the two-month deposit cap, the trust-account duty, the split 14 / 30-day return, and the attorney-fee clause Alaska prohibits.
An Alaska residential lease agreement is the written contract governed by the Alaska Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act at Alaska Stat. 34.03.010 and following. Alaska’s version of the uniform act is stricter than most on the money and looser than most on the paperwork. The deposit is capped at two months’ rent unless the rent exceeds two thousand dollars a month, and — unusually — the landlord must place it in a trust account rather than an operating account. The return deadline is split: fourteen days if the tenant gave proper notice, thirty if the landlord deducts or the tenant did not. Entry takes twenty-four hours. Alaska is one of the few states that requires carbon monoxide detectors by name. And like every state that adopted the uniform act, Alaska prohibits the attorney-fee clause that most lease templates include by default. The generator below reflects each of those rules as the statute reads today.
Alaska Lease Rules at a Glance
Security Deposit Cap
2 Months
Deposit Return
14 or 30 Days
Entry Notice
24 Hours
Month-to-Month Notice
30 Days
Three Things Alaska Template Sites Get Wrong
First, the late-fee cap that does not exist. Several ranking template pages cite Alaska Stat. 09.68.115 for a capped fee in the rental context. That statute is Alaska’s bad check provision — it caps a demand fee at thirty dollars and costs at one hundred fifty dollars — and has nothing to do with residential late fees. Alaska caps residential late fees nowhere. Second, the flat fourteen-day deposit deadline. Alaska Stat. 34.03.070(g) is split: fourteen days only where the tenant gave proper notice of termination, thirty days where the landlord deducts for damages or the tenant did not give notice. Third, the missing trust account. Alaska Stat. 34.03.070(c) requires the deposit to sit in a trust account at a bank, savings and loan association, or licensed escrow agent, and forbids commingling. Template summaries state the cap and skip the custody duty entirely.
How to Fill Out This Alaska Lease Agreement
1. Name the parties, the manager, and the owner
Alaska asks for two identifications. Alaska Stat. 34.03.080(a) requires the written name and address of the person authorized to manage the premises and of an owner, or someone authorized to act for the owner, for service of process and for receiving notices and demands. The landlord must keep both current.
2. Describe the premises and choose the term
Enter the address, the borough or census area, and the property type. Property type is load-bearing here: in a single-family or two-family residence, Alaska Stat. 34.03.100 lets the parties agree in writing that the tenant performs specified repairs or maintenance, provided the agreement is made in good faith.
3. Set rent, the due day, and any late fee
Alaska provides no statutory grace period and no late-fee cap, so if you want either, the lease has to create it. Do not import a cap from Alaska Stat. 09.68.115 — that is the bad-check statute, not a rent provision.
4. Set the deposit within the two-month cap
Alaska Stat. 34.03.070(a) forbids prepaid rent or security above two months’ periodic rent. The one exception is a unit whose periodic rent exceeds two thousand dollars a month, and the form makes you record which basis applies.
5. Name the trust account
This is the step most templates omit. Alaska Stat. 34.03.070(c) requires the money to be promptly deposited, wherever practicable, in a trust account at a bank, savings and loan association, or licensed escrow agent, and not commingled with the landlord’s own funds.
6. Check the disclosures Alaska requires
Manager and owner identification, and smoke plus carbon monoxide detection devices under Alaska Stat. 18.70.095. Federal lead paint applies to pre-1978 housing. Alaska mandates nothing else.
7. Generate, sign, and calendar the return deadline
Download the multi-page PDF and sign. No witnesses and no notary are required in Alaska. Then calendar the deposit deadline as soon as the tenancy ends, because which deadline applies — fourteen days or thirty — depends on facts you will want recorded at the time.
Build Your Alaska Residential Lease Agreement
Complete the fields below to generate an Alaska residential lease agreement as a signable multi-page PDF. Every field you fill is written into the document, including the utility allocations and each disclosure you check, and the generated lease cites the controlling Alaska section at each point. Before handing over keys, run proper tenant screening — the lease governs the relationship, screening decides whether you want it. Pair the signed lease with an Alaska move-in / move-out checklist, because Alaska Stat. 34.03.120 sets an express move-out standard and a documented baseline is what proves it was met.
Alaska Residential Lease Agreement Builder
1. Parties
2. Premises
3. Term
4. Rent
5. Security Deposit — capped at two months’ rent
AS 34.03.070(a) caps prepaid rent and security at two months’ periodic rent, unless the rent exceeds two thousand dollars a month. AS 34.03.070(c) requires the money to sit in a trust account, not the landlord’s operating account.
6. Utilities & Services
Assign each utility. Every selection below is written into the generated lease.
7. Alaska Disclosures
Alaska requires manager and owner identification, and smoke plus carbon monoxide detection devices. Lead paint is federal. Alaska does not mandate radon, flood, bed bug, asbestos, methamphetamine, ordnance or sex-offender disclosures.
8. Other Provisions
There is deliberately no attorney-fee option here. AS 34.03.040(a)(4) makes a tenant’s agreement to pay the landlord’s attorney fees a prohibited provision, and deliberately using a lease containing one lets the other party recover actual damages.