Name: High School Life Skills Worksheet - How to Complete a Rental Agreement
SKU: 64ee9859e606f400121bced5
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

The interactive no-prep worksheet "How to Complete a Rental Agreement" gives high school students the necessary life skills to confidently enter the world of renting.

This resource is designed for high school special education classes and helps students learn critical adulting skills for renting. It's easy to understand and offers practical information.

Using simple language, this life skills worksheet makes learning about budgeting, lease agreements, and responsibilities interesting and enjoyable.

This resource includes real-life situations that help students recognize where they get money and the essential things they need to spend on, like food, transportation, and utilities.

The worksheet lists the important words, rental details, and responsibilities in a basic lease agreement. This makes it simpler for students to grasp the lease agreement.

There are a total of 52 reading comprehension questions in this Functional Life Skills resource!

This activity will assist high school students in developing the necessary life skills to become more independent at school, at home, and in their communities.

A great place to use this handout is in special education classes or one-to-one settings, such as ABA therapy, speech therapy, job coaches, occupational therapy, and Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) sessions.

High school students working on independent living would benefit significantly from this activity for defining, setting, and measuring IEP goals.

In addition to interactive instruction, this resource is ideal for hands-on and community-based learning.

Engage your special education class with this highly interactive High School Functional Life Skills Activity!

This activity contains step-by-step instructions, questions, and answers that reinforce learning, age-appropriate graphics, real-world examples, and ideas for implementation.

This is the perfect special education activity for grade 10, grade 11, grade 12, and autism life skill centers.

This special education life skills handout was designed to assist teens and adults with difficulties developing independent living skills.

It's a printable, easy-to-use activity ready to hand out!

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A PDF with 25 unique pages. Color and black-and-white versions of each page are available for this pdf resource.

What's included

A navigation page stating that pages 2 to 27 are in colour and pages 28 to 54 are black-and-white, with a link to the first page of each version
A Residential Rental Agreement Form under six headings: Tenant Information, Emergency Contact Information, Property Details, Tenant Financial Information, Rental History, and Rental Terms and Conditions
Pre-set lease terms each with an "Enter your initials to agree" line: a 9/15/2023 to 9/14/2024 term, $1,200 rent per month, a due date of the 15th, a $2,400 security deposit, an occupancy limit of 2 adults, a $300 pet deposit, a maintenance split, and a $2,400 early termination fee
An Authorization and Consent section with a lease agreement confirmation, an e-signature line and a date
The full pack in two versions - a colour set and a black-and-white set of the same length
A copyright line on every page naming Adulting on the Spectrum LLC and its website

Resource types: Activities, Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Complete a residential rental agreement accurately, entering tenant, contact, employment and financial details in the right fields
Read a pre-set lease term and initial it deliberately, understanding that initialling is an act of agreement rather than a formality
Identify the sums a tenancy demands beyond the monthly rent - a security deposit, a pet deposit and an early-termination fee
Explain which repairs fall to the tenant and which to the landlord under the maintenance clause
Recognise which personal and financial information a landlord asks for, including income, employer, hire date and credit score

Teaching tips

Agree a rule about fake data before the form goes out - it asks for a Social Security Number, a credit score and an employer, and students should be practising with invented details rather than their own
The terms are already filled in, so the teaching moment is in the initials: pause at each "Enter your initials to agree" line and ask what the student is agreeing to before a pen touches it
Add up the money before signing - $1,200 rent, a $2,400 deposit and a $300 pet deposit means well over three thousand dollars due at the start, which is the arithmetic most first-time renters miss
The maintenance clause splits duties explicitly (tenant: lawn care and garbage; landlord: plumbing and electrical), which makes a good sorting discussion before the form is filled
Print the black-and-white set for student copies and use the colour set on a screen or as the teacher copy, which is how the pack's own navigation page frames the two versions

Skills covered

Completing a real-world form - students enter their details across six headed sections of a residential rental agreement, from full name to credit score.
Reading contract terms before agreeing to them - each pre-set term carries an initials line, so the form makes agreement an explicit, repeated act.
Recognising the true cost of moving in - rent, security deposit, pet deposit and early-termination fee are all stated in dollars on the form.
Understanding tenant and landlord responsibilities - the maintenance clause assigns lawn care and garbage to the tenant and plumbing and electrical repairs to the landlord.
Handling personal and financial disclosure - the form asks for date of birth, employment history, income, expenses and a credit score, which is the information a real application demands.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the lease terms blank for students to invent, or already filled in?

Already filled in. The rent, due date, deposit, occupancy limit, pet policy, maintenance split and early-termination fee are all stated, and each carries an "Enter your initials to agree" line. The blanks are the tenant's own details - name, contacts, income, employer, credit score and rental history.

What does the form ask a student to disclose?

A full application's worth: full name, date of birth, Social Security Number, address, email, cell and home numbers, an emergency contact and their relationship, monthly income, employer, position, hire date, other income, monthly expenses, credit score, and a previous landlord with contact number.

Why does the pack come in two halves?

They are the same material in colour and in black-and-white. The opening page says pages 2 to 27 are in colour and pages 28 to 54 are black-and-white, and gives a link straight to the first page of each, so a classroom printing in mono is not paying for colour it cannot use.