Blank Lease Agreement: Fill & Download for Free

A lease is a blank canvass. There are no rules or generalizations as to what can be negotiated or "worked" into a lease agreement. The process is an art, not a science.A "concession" is something one party gives in exchange for something else. The entire lease is a "concession" of the landlord in exchange for the promise to pay rent. In a typical build-out, there may be dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual concessions.For example, unless otherwise requested a build-out is provided with "building standard" construction. For a linear wall, that might mean standard electrical outlets placed "X" feet apart. But the tenant may want more outlets, or special floor outlets installed, or outlets with four receptacles instead of the standard two. The devil is in the details.

My lease has no rules on it. Are there unspoken rules of a lease agreement and can my landlord evict me for breaking one?You signed a blank piece of paper?WOW.When all else fails, refer to the basic legislation in your province, territory, state, city, municipality.Next - ask for a lease that has actual words on paper.

Almost certainly yes. A minor typo (such as a missing number) is what’s commonly referred to as a scrivener’s error (scriveners being the people who wrote out contracts by hand before the invention of typewriters), and they’re fairly common in contracts, especially ones involving smaller transactions where lawyers are not involved. The general rule for a scrivener’s error is that a minor typo in a contract may be corrected based upon parol evidence (prior/contemporaneous evidence of intent outside the four corners of the contract) so long as the evidence correcting the typo is clear, convincing, and precise. In other words, if the evidence shows that the parties reached agreement on what apartment was subject to the lease, a court will in effect fill in the missing number, and the contract will not be void/voidable just because someone mistakenly forgot to fill in a blank on a form agreement.Let’s look at a common situation to see how this works. I assume that the lease agreement has been signed and that you’ve lived in your apartment for some period of time. If you live at 900 Smith St. Apt. 8 and the lease says 900 Smith St. Apt. __, your landlord can very easily say that all sides understood the lease to cover Apartment 8, because you were given the key to 8 and occupied 8 without complaint for a period of time. There would also likely be emails/texts discussing the apartment that you were to take, etc. Thus, there would be more than enough evidence as to what the parties intended. The bottom line is that you don’t get to receive the benefit of the contract (use of Apartment 8) and then exit the agreement when it is no longer convenient for you. This is a two-way street: your landlord would not be able to play the “someone forgot to fill in the blank” card to try to kick you out before your lease term was up when the evidence was clear that Apartment 8 was yours for a defined period of time.Again, the keys to scrivener's error are that (1) the error is minor and (2) the evidence of intent is clear, so if the evidence is less than clear (e.g., you never set foot in Apartment 8, you were still discussing details leading up to the signing of the contract), then the lease would potentially fail for lack of a meeting of the minds, i.e., no agreement as to the intention of the parties.