Real estate
Leases, purchases and property agreements
A lease is a long document in which four or five clauses do all the work. GO LAW drafts one from what you describe, and reads back one you have been handed so the parts that decide your exposure are the parts you actually see.
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Residential and commercial leases, purchase agreements, notices and assignments.
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Questions people arrive with
What is the difference between a gross lease and a net lease?
Who pays for the building. A gross rent is one number; a net lease adds taxes, insurance and maintenance on top, and the difference between the two shows up as a surprise in year two rather than at signing.
Can I get out of a lease early?
Sometimes, and the answer is in the document: an assignment clause, a sublet clause, a break right, or nothing at all. Where there is nothing, what is left is a negotiation, not a right.
What happens to a security deposit?
It is held, not spent, and most jurisdictions put a deadline on returning it with an itemised list of anything withheld. The lease says what it may be used for; the local statute says how fast it comes back.