Leases
Guides across the site that deal with leases.
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Renting & City Housing
Reading a Residential Lease Before Signing
A residential lease is negotiable before you sign and partly overridden by law afterward. This walkthrough covers each clause and flags the terms your state, not the landlord, controls.
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Renting & City Housing
Roommates, Co-Tenants, and Who Owes the Rent
When several people sign one lease, each usually owes the entire rent rather than a share. This explainer covers co-tenants, subtenants, exits, deposits and roommate disputes.
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Renting & City Housing
Subletting and Assignment: Getting Permission Properly
Subletting keeps you on the lease and liable; assignment transfers the rest of the term. This how-to covers consent standards, the written request, refusals and the paperwork.
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Renting & City Housing
Lease Renewal, Non-Renewal, and Month-to-Month Conversion
A fixed term usually converts to a month-to-month tenancy unless someone acts. Notice lengths, just-cause limits on non-renewal, and rent increase rules all come from state and local law.
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Renting & City Housing
Breaking a Lease for Military Service, Safety, or Health
Some reasons for leaving early are written into statute rather than left to the landlord's goodwill. One is federal; the rest are state law and differ sharply from place to place.
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Veterans & Military Families
Military Housing Allowances and Landlord Disputes
A basic allowance for housing belongs to the servicemember and does not make the military a party to the lease. What actually governs is the lease, federal exit rights, and state law.
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Animals & Pets
Pet Restrictions in Leases and Assistance Animal Requests
A no-pets clause binds an ordinary pet owner but does not settle a request for an assistance animal. Here is how the two rules sit together and what a landlord may ask for.