Room Rental Agreement in Kentucky

For renting a room in a home, including your own home. Some states treat a renter in the owner's home (a lodger) differently when ending the arrangement — see your state's household rules.

What Kentucky law says

Renting a room in your own home (lodgers)	In areas covered by the uniform Act, a "roomer" or "boarder" is a tenant occupying a unit that lacks at least one major bathroom or kitchen facility, sharing those facilities with other units, in a building where the landlord lives. Roomers remain tenants under the Act; a roomer who pays weekly rent with no fixed term has a week-to-week tenancy. Kentucky's Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (KRS 383.505-383.715) applies only in cities and counties that have adopted it (KRS 383.500). Source: KRS 383.545(12), 383.565(3)
Tenancy at will	In areas where the uniform Act is not in effect, a landlord may end a tenancy at will or by sufferance with one month's written notice requiring the tenant to leave. A tenant at will or by sufferance who refuses to give up possession after the landlord ends the tenancy commits forcible detainer. In uniform-Act areas, a month-to-month tenancy is ended by written notice at least 30 days before the periodic rental date. Source: KRS 383.195, 383.200(3)(a), 383.695

Renting a room in your own home (lodgers)

In areas covered by the uniform Act, a "roomer" or "boarder" is a tenant occupying a unit that lacks at least one major bathroom or kitchen facility, sharing those facilities with other units, in a building where the landlord lives. Roomers remain tenants under the Act; a roomer who pays weekly rent with no fixed term has a week-to-week tenancy.

Kentucky's Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (KRS 383.505-383.715) applies only in cities and counties that have adopted it (KRS 383.500).

Source: KRS 383.545(12), 383.565(3)

Tenancy at will

In areas where the uniform Act is not in effect, a landlord may end a tenancy at will or by sufferance with one month's written notice requiring the tenant to leave. A tenant at will or by sufferance who refuses to give up possession after the landlord ends the tenancy commits forcible detainer. In uniform-Act areas, a month-to-month tenancy is ended by written notice at least 30 days before the periodic rental date.

Source: KRS 383.195, 383.200(3)(a), 383.695

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ROOM RENTAL AGREEMENT

Owner/landlord: [owner name] Renter: [renter name]

Room: [room description] in the home at [home address]. Shared areas the renter may use: [shared areas].

Term: begins [start date]; [ends on end date / continues month to month].

Rent: $[monthly rent] due on [due day] by [payment method]. Deposit: $[deposit amount].

Utilities included: [utilities included]. House rules: [house rules, e.g. guests, kitchen use, smoking].

Ending the agreement: either side gives at least [notice period] written notice, and never less than state law requires.

Signatures and dates: [signatures]

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