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Your lease has risky clauses. Find them before they bite.

Upload your residential lease and Lease Lens flags missing termination terms, illegal fees, and vague maintenance obligations — with plain-English explanations and suggested fixes.

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Residential Lease Agreement
§ 8 — Maintenance Responsibilities

Tenant shall be responsible for all repairs and maintenance to the premises, as determined by Landlord in their sole discretion.

Vague maintenance obligation

No cost cap or dispute process. Landlord can assign any repair as tenant's responsibility with no recourse.

Suggested fix included

§ 9 — Late Fees

A late fee of 12% of monthly rent shall be assessed after the 3rd calendar day...

How it works

1

Upload your lease

Drop in a PDF or paste the text of your residential lease. Lease Lens reads the full document, not just the highlights.

2

We read every clause

Each section gets checked against common problem patterns — vague obligations, illegal terms, missing protections, silent auto-renewals.

3

Get plain-English fixes

For every flagged clause, you get an explanation of the risk and exact replacement language you can put in your next lease.

What we catch

Six problems hiding in most residential leases

These are not hypotheticals. They are the clauses tenant attorneys look for first.

Illegal fee structures

Late fees that exceed state caps, prohibited application charges, or pet deposits coded as non-refundable when state law says otherwise.

Missing termination terms

No notice period defined, no early termination clause, or automatic renewal language your tenant can use against you.

Vague maintenance splits

"All repairs" without a cost threshold or landlord backup obligation — a blank check handed to whoever argues harder.

Rent increase gaps

No minimum notice period before increases, or mid-lease increase language that courts in most states routinely void.

Security deposit problems

No stated return timeline, prohibited deduction categories, or missing itemization requirements under state tenancy law.

Unlawful entry provisions

Landlord access clauses granting entry without state-minimum notice, creating liability in any future dispute.

Built for independent landlords

Not property management companies. Not investors with legal teams. Landlords managing one to ten units on their own.

You wrote the lease yourself

A template from a Google search three years ago, never looked at since. There is a good chance something in it would not hold up.

You manage 1–10 units solo

You do not have an attorney on retainer, and $400 for a lease review every time you sign a new tenant is not realistic.

You have been here before

A tenant dispute taught you the hard way that vague language in a lease always gets read against the person who wrote it.

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