DocuTenant vs Net Lawman
The short answer
Net Lawman sells editable legal templates you buy once and fill in yourself, with the option to pay a lawyer to review what you wrote. DocuTenant generates the finished document from your property and tenancy record. Their model suits an unusual letting that needs redrafting; ours suits ordinary lettings that need the same documents repeatedly and correctly.
What Net Lawman is
A long-established legal template library, trading since 1999, covering business, property, wills and personal law. Landlord documents are one section of it. You buy a document, download it as Word, Pages or RTF with guidance notes, and edit it yourself. A paid tier called Lawyer Assist adds one-to-one review of your edited draft. Its Form 3A and Form 4A notices are free question-and-answer builders rather than downloads.
Everything on this page about Net Lawman was read from their own site on 24 August 2026. Neither product’s price is listed here, because prices change and a stale one helps nobody. Check theirs on their site and ours on our pricing page.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Net Lawman | DocuTenant |
|---|---|---|
| Tenancy agreement, England (RRA-era assured periodic) | Net Lawman, Tenancy agreement, England (RRA-era assured periodic): yes | DocuTenant, Tenancy agreement, England (RRA-era assured periodic): yes |
| Tenancy agreement, Wales | Net Lawman, Tenancy agreement, Wales: yes | DocuTenant, Tenancy agreement, Wales: no |
| Tenancy agreement, ScotlandWe could find no Scottish private residential tenancy agreement on their site. | Net Lawman, Tenancy agreement, Scotland: no | DocuTenant, Tenancy agreement, Scotland: yes |
| Section 8 notice on Form 3ATheirs is a free online builder. | Net Lawman, Section 8 notice on Form 3A: yes | DocuTenant, Section 8 notice on Form 3A: yes |
| Rent increase on Form 4AAlso a free online builder. | Net Lawman, Rent increase on Form 4A: yes | DocuTenant, Rent increase on Form 4A: yes |
| Scottish Notice to LeaveNot found. Their Scottish eviction page is an information article that points you at the Scottish Government, last updated December 2020. | Net Lawman, Scottish Notice to Leave: no | DocuTenant, Scottish Notice to Leave: yes |
| Scottish rent-increase notice | Net Lawman, Scottish rent-increase notice: no | DocuTenant, Scottish rent-increase notice: yes |
| Deposit prescribed information | Net Lawman, Deposit prescribed information: yes | DocuTenant, Deposit prescribed information: yes |
| Inventory | Net Lawman, Inventory: yes | DocuTenant, Inventory: yes |
| Guarantor documentTheirs is a rent guarantee agreement. | Net Lawman, Guarantor document: yes | DocuTenant, Guarantor document: yes |
| Unusual letting types (company let, service occupancy, holiday let, lodger)We generate none of these. We cover standard residential tenancies in England and Scotland only. | Net Lawman, Unusual letting types (company let, service occupancy, holiday let, lodger): yes | DocuTenant, Unusual letting types (company let, service occupancy, holiday let, lodger): no |
| Arrears letters | Net Lawman, Arrears letters: no | DocuTenant, Arrears letters: yes |
| Breach notice | Net Lawman, Breach notice: no | DocuTenant, Breach notice: yes |
| Right to Rent check record | Net Lawman, Right to Rent check record: no | DocuTenant, Right to Rent check record: yes |
| Checkout and deposit deduction documents | Net Lawman, Checkout and deposit deduction documents: no | DocuTenant, Checkout and deposit deduction documents: yes |
| Editable Word file | Net Lawman, Editable Word file: yes | DocuTenant, Editable Word file: yes |
| Your details reused across documents | Net Lawman, Your details reused across documents: no | DocuTenant, Your details reused across documents: yes |
| A lawyer will review your draft | Net Lawman, A lawyer will review your draft: yes | DocuTenant, A lawyer will review your draft: no |
| Per-document review dates publishedTheir document pages carry no last-reviewed date, only a general claim that lawyers review regularly. | Net Lawman, Per-document review dates published: no | DocuTenant, Per-document review dates published: yes |
Choose Net Lawman if
- Your letting is unusual. A company let, a service occupancy, a holiday letting, a lodger arrangement or a common law tenancy falls outside what we generate, and they have a drafted document for each.
- You want a lawyer to look at what you wrote. Their Lawyer Assist tier is a genuine service and no generator substitutes for it.
- You want to rewrite the document substantially. Their model hands you the full text to edit; ours produces a finished document from structured inputs.
- You need one document once and have no interest in a subscription. They also offer a full money-back guarantee, which is unusually confident.
- You need documents outside residential letting entirely — business, wills, other property work — and would rather have one supplier.
Choose DocuTenant if
- You let in Scotland. We could find no Scottish tenancy agreement and no Notice to Leave on their site, and their Scottish eviction guidance carries a December 2020 update date against August 2026 for their England content.
- You need the documents that come up during a tenancy rather than at the start: arrears letters, breach notices, inspection notices, checkout reports, deposit deductions.
- You would rather not edit a legal document yourself. Editing is where the mistakes get made, and a template is only as good as the person filling it in.
- You generate documents more than once or twice a year, and want the property and tenant details to carry across instead of retyping them.
- You want to know when a document was last reviewed against the legislation. We publish a review date on every page; their document pages do not carry one.
Buy a template, or generate a document
The difference is not really features. It is who does the filling in, and where the risk sits.
A template puts a complete legal document in your hands and trusts you to adapt it. That is genuinely the right tool when your situation is unusual, because you can rewrite anything. It is the wrong tool when your situation is ordinary, because there is nothing stopping you deleting a clause you did not understand, and the guidance notes cannot catch it.
A generator asks structured questions and produces a document you cannot break. That is the right tool for ordinary lettings done repeatedly. It is the wrong tool for a service occupancy for a live-in caretaker, which is not something we generate and never will be.
Net Lawman's free Form 3A and Form 4A builders are worth knowing about regardless of which you pick. They are question-and-answer tools rather than downloads, and they cost nothing.
The Scottish gap is the clearest thing on this page
We searched their site thoroughly for Scottish landlord documents and found none of the ones that matter: no private residential tenancy agreement, no Notice to Leave, no Scottish rent-increase notice. Two generic documents carry a Scotland compliance badge — a rent guarantee agreement and a property inventory — and that is the extent of it.
Their own Scottish eviction page is an information article that directs landlords to the Scottish Government's model agreement. It shows a last-updated date of December 2020. Their England guidance on the Renters' Rights Act shows August 2026.
That contrast is the honest summary of where English-first legal template sites are on Scotland, and it is not particular to Net Lawman. Scotland is a smaller market with genuinely different law, so it gets updated last or not at all. If you let in Scotland, check the date on any guidance before you rely on it, on their site or anyone else's.
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Common questions
Sources
Every statute, form and scheme named above, linked to the primary source.
- Assured tenancy forms, including Form 3A and Form 4A — GOV.UK
- Starting a private residential tenancy in Scotland — mygov.scot
- Ending a private residential tenancy in Scotland — mygov.scot
- Rent increases for Scottish private tenancies — mygov.scot
- Renters' Rights Act 2025 — legislation.gov.uk