About Landlord Atlas
Landlord Atlas is a free reference for independent and small-portfolio landlords: the state-by-state rules that come up constantly — security deposits, rent increase notice, late fees, entry notice, and the eviction process — verified against official statutes, cited, and dated. A suite of free generators and calculators is built on the same verified data.
It is not legal advice, not a tenant-screening or property-management platform, and not affiliated with any government agency. See the methodology for how facts are verified and the disclaimer for the fine print.
Who runs Landlord Atlas
Landlord Atlas was founded and is operated by Jordan Straight, who sets the site's verification standards and audits its work. The site is published by Landlord Atlas LLC, a Michigan limited liability company.
Jordan's professional background is quality assurance. That includes five years in QA and auditing for clinical research, primarily phase II and III oncology trials, where the cost of an unsupported claim is measured in patient safety and regulatory findings. In that role Jordan facilitated two FDA inspections, both of which closed with No Action Indicated, the agency's cleanest inspection outcome. Before moving into QA, Jordan spent ten years in biomedical research in molecular neuroscience — work that included co-authoring a peer-reviewed research paper in the journal Neuroscience (Peterson et al., 2019, on PubMed) — and holds a B.S. in Molecular Biology.
Jordan is not an attorney, and Landlord Atlas does not give legal advice. The site is built so that it never has to ask for trust on that point: no rule published here rests on anyone's interpretation. Every claim is read from the official statute text, cited to the section it comes from, and stamped with the date it was last verified, so a reader, client, journalist, or auditor can verify any figure at the source without taking this site's word for it. The verification procedure itself is written and run the way a clinical QA standard operating procedure is, with primary sources, documented evidence, and a public log of every change. It is documented in full on the methodology page.
The day-to-day research and maintenance are done by AI working under that procedure — see how AI is used.
How the site is funded
The reference content and tools are free and will stay that way. Two things cover costs: we sell one paid product — the Landlord Operations Bundle ($19), an operational toolkit of spreadsheets, checklists, and letter templates — and the site carries a small number of clearly disclosed affiliate placements for landlord services. Currently that means two partners: Hemlane, a property-management platform for self-managing landlords, and ezLandlordForms, a state-specific lease and landlord document service. If you subscribe or purchase through a Landlord Atlas link, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate placements never appear inside an answer box or fact table, and no partner ever influences what the law pages say — the statutes say what they say.
Contact
Business inquiries, feedback, and corrections: [email protected]. For corrections, cite the statute — see how corrections are handled.