Educate your tenants about safety and proper smoke detector care. It's amazing how such an important life saving smoke alarm can be ignored. Children's video games and TV remote controllers seem to take a higher priority when a battery is needed in a pinch. Often, rentals are returned with broken or neglected smoke detector units. Sometimes, with missing batteries.

The Smoke Detector Addendum will emphasize and prioritize the importance of safety and the smoke detector. Signing this form in addition to the lease will place a duty upon your new tenant to test and care for smoke detectors properly.