327 Questions to Ask Before You Sign a Lease
83 Essential Topics Include:
- Adjustments to Base Rent
- Alterations
- Assignment and Sublease
- Attorneys’ Fees
- Authority
- Brokers’ Fees
- Building Security
- Building Signage
- Co-Tenancy
- Compliance with Laws
- Condemnation
- Consent and Duty of Parties to Act Reasonably
- Damage and Destruction
- Default
- Disputes
- Economic Representations
- Entire Agreement
- Estoppel Certificate
- Exhibits
- Force Majeure
- Free Rent
- General Issues
- Governing Law
- Gross Up of Base Year
- Hazardous Materials
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - HIPAA
- Holdover
- Indemnity and Hold Harmless
- Indoor Air Quality
- Insurance Increase
- Insurance
- Landlord’s Default
- Landlord’s Liability
- Landlord’s Lien
- Lease Cancellation Provision
- Lease Not an Offer
- Lease Renewal
- Leasing of Capital Items
- Lender Modification
- Mechanic’s Liens
- Notice to Mortgagee
- Notices
- Operating Expenses
- Option to Renew
- Parking
- Parties
- Payment of Taxes and Insurance
- Percentage Rent
- Premises
- Quiet Enjoyment
- Recapture of Premises
- Recording
- Reductions for Trade Discounts
- Relocation
- Rent
- Repairs and Maintenance
- Repairs Required by Government
- Right of Entry
- Right of First Refusal
- Right to Cancel
- Rules and Regulations
- Security Deposit
- Services & Utilities
- Severability
- Sharing of Profits from Assignment or Sublease
- Signature Page
- Signs
- Sublease Recognition Agreement
- Subordination
- Subrogation
- Surrender Condition
- Surrender of Premises
- Survival of Remedies
- Sustainability – Green Building Issues
- Taxes
- Tenant Improvements
- Tenant’s Personal Guarantee
- Term
- Timely Payments for Goods, Utilities, or Services
- Use
- Vacancy Credit
- Waiver
- Warranty Costs in Base Year