Arizona Deceased Tenant Estate and Landlord Coordination Packet
ARIZONA DECEASED TENANT ESTATE AND LANDLORD COORDINATION PACKET
Before use: A.R.S. § 33-1314(E)-(F) applies to the tenant's personal property only if periodic rent has been unpaid and outstanding for at least five days; its animal provisions apply if the tenant is deceased or incapacitated. Death alone does not establish abandonment or end a lease. Review the lease, any estate appointment, possession, rent and deposit separately before using a property-disposition step.
Case and authority record
| Item | Supporting document, date and result |
|---|---|
| Tenant, dwelling, death and all occupants | [NAME / ADDRESS / RECORD / DATE] |
| Lease, rent due, payments and paid-through date | [LEASE / LEDGER / DATES] |
| Periodic rent unpaid and outstanding at least five days? | [AMOUNT / DUE DATE / REVIEWER] |
| Tenant's named retrieval contact and current details | [TENANT DESIGNATION / ADDRESS / PHONE] |
| Estate representative or competing property claimant | [APPOINTMENT / DOCUMENT / CONTACT] |
| Animals present and immediate care arrangement | [TYPE / LOCATION / CARE CONTACT] |
| Possession and lease-end determination, independent of death | [BASIS / DATE / REVIEWER] |
A. Estate representative or tenant-designated contact: access request
Date: [__/__/____] To landlord: [NAME / ADDRESS]
Tenant and dwelling: [NAME / ADDRESS] Date of death: [__/__/____]
I am [NAME], acting as ☐ the person the tenant designated under A.R.S. § 33-1314(E) ☐ a duly appointed estate representative ☐ another claimant whose authority is attached. My designation or appointment document is [DESCRIPTION / ATTACHMENT]. My contact details are [ADDRESS / PHONE / EMAIL]. I request an appointment during regular business hours on [DATE / TIME] or [ALTERNATE] to identify and retrieve [PROPERTY / ANIMAL], subject to verification of the applicable authority and statutory conditions. I will present government-issued identification before removing property under § 33-1314(F).
Please provide the date of your initial written contact, the rent-paid-through date, and an inventory of any property moved. Please identify any competing claimant or court order known to you. I do not accept personal liability for the tenant's obligations by making this request. A tenant-designated contact is not thereby appointed to administer the estate.
Signature: ______________________________ Date: [__/__/____]
Delivery record: [METHOD / DATE / PROOF]
B. Landlord: written contact and retrieval arrangement
Date and method of initial written contact: [__/__/____ / METHOD / PROOF]
To tenant-designated contact: [NAME / ADDRESS / PHONE]
Tenant and dwelling: [NAME / ADDRESS]. The items or animal presently identified are [DESCRIPTION / INVENTORY]. Please respond about an animal within one day of initial written contact, and about other property within ten days. If the § 33-1314 personal-property route applies, please present government-issued identification and arrange removal during regular business hours no later than the later of twenty days after this initial written contact or the last date through which rent was paid: [DATE / DATE / LATER DATE]. Please return keys upon removal.
An animal that remains unclaimed may require a separate shelter, boarding or animal-control response under §§ 33-1314(E) and 33-1370(E). Other property will be handled only after the applicable contact, authority and possession requirements have been checked. This letter does not decide estate ownership or lease termination.
Landlord signature: ______________________________ Date: [__/__/____]
Contact record: [DELIVERY / PHONE ATTEMPTS / RESPONSE / DATES]
C. Access and property handoff receipt
Appointment: [DATE / TIME / ADDRESS]. Recipient: [NAME / CONTACT DESIGNATION OR ESTATE DOCUMENT / GOVERNMENT ID CHECK]. Landlord: [NAME].
| Item or animal | Identification and condition | Removed, stored or remains |
|---|---|---|
| [DESCRIPTION] | [PHOTOS / SERIAL / CONDITION] | [STATUS / LOCATION] |
| [DESCRIPTION] | [PHOTOS / SERIAL / CONDITION] | [STATUS / LOCATION] |
Keys returned or next arrangement: [DETAIL / DATE]. This receipt records physical custody only and makes no finding about title, estate appointment, lease termination or a third party's personal liability.
Recipient signature: ____________________ Landlord signature: ____________________ Date: [__/__/____]
D. Landlord: disposition and accounting decision record
| Gate | Record |
|---|---|
| § 33-1314(G) five-day unpaid-periodic-rent condition for personal property, or deceased/incapacitated condition for animal | [LEDGER OR DEATH RECORD / REVIEWER] |
| Tenant designation, initial written contact, one-day animal and ten-day other-property response periods | [DOCUMENT / DATES / RESULTS] |
| Twenty-day or rent-paid-through removal period, whichever is later | [CALCULATION / ACCESS OFFER / RESULT] |
| Estate appointment, competing claim and property ownership reviewed | [DOCUMENT / DECISION] |
| Separate lawful basis and date for retaking dwelling possession | [LEASE / SURRENDER / COURT OR § 33-1370 BASIS / DATE] |
| If § 33-1370 abandonment route is used: subsection J facts; subsection A certified-mail and posting notices; subsection D inventory and storage notice | [FACTS / COPIES / DELIVERY / INVENTORY] |
| If landlord has retaken possession: fourteen calendar days of holding under § 33-1370(F), reasonable care and any timely written reclamation under subsection H | [START / END / CONTACT / COSTS / RESPONSE] |
| Animal shelter or boarding-facility name and location, if released | [FACILITY / DATE / RECORD] |
| Sale, donation, low-value disposal or other action, only after applicable statutory conditions and claim review | [BASIS / DATE / RECIPIENT / PROCEEDS / COSTS] |
| Lease and deposit accounting, handled separately | [LEDGER / RECIPIENT AUTHORITY / STATEMENT] |
Reviewer and authorized next step: [NAME / DATE / DECISION]. This record does not itself authorize entry, retaking possession, removal, sale or disposal.
About this template
- Last updated
- October 3, 2026
- Citations checked
- October 3, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- Arizona
- Category
- Landlord & Tenant
Legal authority
- A.R.S. § 33-1314(E)-(G)
- A.R.S. § 33-1370(A), (D)-(H), (J)
Landlord-tenant paperwork governs who can stay in a property, on what terms, and what happens when something goes wrong. Leases, notices to quit, security deposit demands, and habitability complaints all have state and often city-specific requirements for timing, content, and service. Getting the paperwork right is what makes an eviction actually succeed or a security deposit actually come back, because judges regularly dismiss cases over small procedural mistakes.
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This template is provided for informational purposes. We recommend having an attorney review any legal document before signing, especially for high-value or complex matters.
Checked against the law it cites
A reviewer verified this template's legal citations against the official source on October 3, 2026.
A.R.S. § 33-1314(E) (checked October 3, 2026): "the landlord may request and the tenant may provide and routinely update the name and contact information of a person who is authorized by the tenant to enter the tenant's dwelling unit to retrieve and store the tenant's property, including the tenant's animal, if the tenant dies or is otherwise incapacitated."
A.R.S. § 33-1314(E) (checked October 3, 2026): "the authorized person fails to respond to the landlord's request within one day for the animal or ten days for all other property after initial written contact"
A.R.S. § 33-1314(F) (checked October 3, 2026): "Before removing any of the tenant's personal property or the tenant's animal, the authorized person shall present to the landlord a valid government issued identification that confirms the identity of the authorized person."
A.R.S. § 33-1314(F) (checked October 3, 2026): "The authorized person shall have twenty days after the date of initial written contact by the landlord or the last date for which rent is paid, whichever is longer, to remove items from the rental property and return keys to the landlord during regular business hours."
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