Tenant Release of Information Authorization Form

[Sophia Smith]

Hi all! 

   New investor here, trying to learn all of the NYS tenant/landlord laws. I have been reading that in order to contact a tenants previous landlord, especially when it involves reaching out to a large property management company/apartment complexes that they will sometimes ask for a tenant release of information consent form. I have seen tons of these online, many of them are free modifiable templates with verbiage that you can change out. However, during my research I am struggling to find if there is any NYS specific consent form or NYS specific verbiage that needs to be used on such form. If anyone has resources for this it would be great as I am not pulling up anything state specific. It may be in fact that there is nothing state specific and that these free online forms are fine to use, but I am trying to ease on the side of caution.