Sign Residential Lease Electronically

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hey doing this is Joe from Ibiza greement calm and I'm going to guide you through how you fill out a standard lease agreement okay the first part we have the term of the lease agreement how many months is it going to be a typical residential lease agreement is 12 months so we're just going to write 12 right in here beginning at least usually begins on the first day of a month and we'll just do January the year 2013 let's say it starts in the future and it ends on I'll say December 31st 2013 when you lease landlord will just make the landlord be landlord ink with a mailing address of 9v landlord legs 3 put in the landlord's address on the city of landlord ville state of York zip code well I don't know he's in codes in New York so I'll actually got to Florida 3 3 1 39 which is Miami Beach and the tenant will just say his name is Joseph 10 man and the Landlord agrees to lease the premises located at we'll just do our office address which is 90 Alton Road I won't say the suite city of Miami Beach and Florida three point three three one three and if the carpet is or condo or house or whatever it is has ain't furnishings you'd put it in here like let's say we're leaving them desks and couches but you can put in there whatever you want this is sounding like more of an office lease but this is still a residential if there are any restrictions like you know some of these can kind of be silly like no must have shoes on an elevator but it can be whatever you want and you can actually if you have a lot of restrictions right something like see attachment and put all your restrictions in a separate attachment to this document this is just used just as you're going to be being a typical tenant which is just doing your date typical day to day things there and this is where the landlord will be telling you if you can make any alterations most landlords say no which means that you can't paint put in a dishwasher replace a dishwasher do anything without the tenants I mean the landlord's approval so the tenant can't do anything for the most part if this is checked off pets will say that the tenant is not allowed to have a pet and then this is if someone's blind they say have a dog and why you have that dog Pollock most of the times because you're blind there any minor children you have to list them in here and this is the box where you write it the rule the landlord writes in the rule of you know how many days can a guest stay there for most landlords say a week but it can be anything that you want this is what you write in the rent we'll just say the rent is $1,000 1,000 payable in the name what do you want the checks made out to which is a landlord Inc say they're doing the first every month beginning January 1st 2013 and typically you have the red cent somewhere well I know a lot of buildings have Dropbox but we'll just say that we want the rent sent to 95 Alton Road so the landlord will be living right next door or there's another way you can just write the drop box like we discussed here and you don't have to write in all the address stuff now I'm heading down to the next the tenants move-in date this is where you just write in when he's going to be able to move in most of the time it's on the first day Tennessee to the January 2000 first of those 13 and this is just in case see the tenant moved in on December 25th then the tenant would have to pay six days of prorated rent which is very easy to calculate you just take the monthly rent and divide it by 30 that's what you'd put in here but we're going to say the tenant is going to be moving in right on the first and this is where you write in your security deposits if you need to - landlord requests one last month's rent rent in advance I don't know why someone would do that but it happens pet deposit say the landlord wants 100 bucks for every cat Leila would put it in here or if there's just some other deposit that the landlord of one just click this and type whatever you want right here if this is about the advancement of the rent and getting your money back after your you leave the property most of the time landlords will this will be 30 days but most states actually have a requirement with landlord has to bring the money back at that certain amount of time this is the late fee the landlord can either charge a fixed number like 20 bucks for every day that it's late or the landlord can charge a percentage of the rental amount due so we'll just say that the landlord here $25 for every day that it's late and again some states have a cap on this so you want to watch out before you really start to dig into the tent here and this is just utilities the tenant will be responsible for which of the following your good landlord you don't check any of these but your landlord that wants the tenant to pay and be responsible for what they're using then I suggest at least checking out three out of five of these but we're going to be a good landlord we're not going to check any of these off subletting an assignment this basically just says that the tenant cannot sub what the premises to someone else without your permission and this is just legal jargon about maintenance saying the tenant has to keep everything up up to date this is about entering you the property and they have to give you notice about any improvements alterations to the property again you can just you don't really have to read this just skip over it prohibited acts by the landlord basically just says that he can't lock your own door and change your locks on you that be breaking the lease this is your if you default in the lease these are your choices same thing landlord he defaults this is the agreement and this is the waiver that says basically that if the tenant breaks the lease by paying late rent but if the landlord accepts that late run then the tenant is back in his lease and the lease is now valid again possession this just says that the tenant has the right to the properties and here we go about notices all notices made by the tenant to the landlord must be delivered to this is where the landlord writes in his address for notices made by the tenant say the tenant there's a leak and he wants it fixed it was just some general improvement that needs to be made the tenant would be following what the dresses here disclosures a lot of states have disclosures I'd say about 75% the state wants the landlord to disclose something about that something specific about that state like for example in the state of Maine they make the landlord tell the tenant what kind of power that's available you know just sometimes it's really strange but every state usually has I know California has a pretty big one that they need to but we have all those on our website at a lease agreement com additional addendums there's any special request that the landlord or tenant may have you just write in here you know addendum one and this will mark that there is an addendum to this lease so then just keep going down here all legal jargon time is of the essence entire lease agreement and we get to the real meat and potatoes of the agreement landlords printed name tenants printed his name signatures and if applicable if there was a real estate agent they would sign here so that is an overview of how you fill out a standard residential lease agreement