Depression can make the basics feel heavy. If a dog, cat or other animal helps you get through the day, a free screening with an Arizona-licensed clinician shows whether an ESA letter or a psychiatric service dog letter is supported.
All security together, prepaid rent included, under A.R.S. 33-1321. A tenant may still choose to prepay more.
The clinician asks about your symptoms, how long they have lasted and what they keep you from doing. A letter is written only when depression rises to a disability and your animal plays a part in managing it.
Enter the monthly rent and what the landlord wants before move-in. Deposits and required prepaid rent count toward the cap, whatever the landlord calls them.
Clear pricing for emotional support animal and psychiatric service dog letters written by a licensed mental health professional. Your screening is free, and you pay only if a clinician supports a letter and you decide to continue.
Best option for most renters with one emotional support animal
For people who have more than one emotional support animal in the home
For people who may qualify for a task-trained psychiatric service dog
Save more with combined document bundles
ESA letter and certificate in one package
Complete PSD documentation: letter, certificate and ID card
Four frames, from move-in paperwork to the end of the dispute window.
Move-in
The landlord hands over a signed lease, a move-in damage form and notice that you may attend the move-out inspection.
Move-out
Return the keys and ask for your deposit once the tenancy has ended.
14 business days
Deductions and any refund are due within fourteen days, leaving out weekends and legal holidays.
60 days
An undisputed list becomes final sixty days after it is mailed.
Six questions about letters, deposits and refunds, each floated on a paper boat.
Depression can qualify when a licensed clinician finds it substantially limits a major life activity, such as sleep, work or self-care, and that your animal helps with those limits.
A.R.S. 33-1321 bars a landlord from demanding or receiving security, however it is labeled and including prepaid rent, of more than one and one-half month's rent.
Yes. The same section says the cap does not stop a tenant from voluntarily paying more than one and one-half month's rent in advance.
Arizona law requires the landlord to state the purpose of every nonrefundable fee or deposit in writing, and any fee or deposit not designated nonrefundable is refundable.
Within fourteen days, not counting weekends or legal holidays, after the tenancy ends, you return possession and you ask for it, the landlord must give an itemized list of deductions and any amount due.
If the landlord does not follow the refund rules, the tenant may recover the money due plus damages equal to twice the amount wrongfully withheld.
Six more Arizona pages after the storm
General information for Arizona tenants, current as of October 2026, and not legal or medical advice. The calculator applies the cap in A.R.S. 33-1321 to the numbers you enter and is not a legal review of a lease. Screening does not guarantee a letter. If depression turns into a crisis, call or text 988, or phone the Arizona Statewide Crisis Line, 1-844-534-4673.
A few minutes of questions now, a licensed clinician's review next, and you pay only if a letter is supported.
