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want to make sure that your rental lease agreement is rock-solid and watch this video to learn five key lease clauses that you must include in your next rental lease for the best landlord tips and tricks stay tuned to our channel subscribe and hit that bell to be notified every time there's a new video each and every Wednesday so when was the last time you reviewed or updated your rental lease agreement hopefully it was within the last year or two having a really comprehensive lease is so important and it helps avoid problems down the road because you've spelled out everything as clearly as possible what I want to talk to you about today are five clauses that we feel are really critical to make sure that you include so that you protect yourself as the landlord hi there my name is sue Ricci I'm an entrepreneur and I'm the co-founder and Broker of Ricci property management we're residential property management firm and real estate brokerage in the Northern Virginia area so let's get to it clause number one pets so most of the our tenants have a pet two thirds of the population has a pet so it's very likely that your tenant will come with a pet and pets are okay as long as you have clauses in place that protect you an outline damage etc that the pet might cause so first of all you want to make sure that you have a clause in there that says there are no unauthorized pets and if there is an unauthorized pack what happens so first of all you can impose a fee or a fine if you find that the tenant has a pet that was not on the lease that you didn't screen and that you didn't approve so you can impose a fine and you can also add on an inspection fee so you can tell them that first of all you violated the lease so there's a penalty and then we have to come back now and do an extra inspection because inspect for any pet damage so if you want to know more about pets and your rental property we've done a lot of videos related to pets and I've shared the links below so check them out so clause number 2 is waiver of subrogation this one might not be as familiar to most people but basically what this means is is this and I need to explain this better with an example so let's say your tenant gets hurt at the property let's say they they slip down the stairs and they get hurt and there's an insurance claim and then eventually the tenant says you know what I'm not gonna go after the owner I want to stay here I shouldn't you know it was a mistake but maybe that maybe the insurance company says that that really should have been fixed you give your rights to us...