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From Forbes.com: 

“A lease or rental agreement sets out the rules landlords and tenants agree to follow in their rental relationship. It is a legal contract, as well as an immensely practical document full of crucial business details, such as how long the tenant can occupy the property and the amount of rent due each month. Whether the lease or rental agreement is as short as one page or longer than five, typed or handwritten, it needs to cover the basic terms of the tenancy.”  View the full article at Forbes.com. 

I thought this article was a good summary of the key terms you should include in your lease.   If you’re a new landlord and don’t know where to begin with writing your lease, start with asking your real estate agent.  Hopefully you purchased the property using an agent who handles multi-families and knows something about leases.  Ask other landlords, too, for ideas.

But before you use any lease, have a real estate attorney who is well-versed in landlord/tenant law review it to make sure it’s legally binding.  The attorney I use for landlord/tenant issues is Doris D’Ambrosio in West Hartford, CT.