Today’s Lesson
After talking and e-mailing back and forth with a few friends of mine who’ve been screwed by their respective “landlords,” I feel it is important to say:
I don’t care who you are renting from, or for how long: GET A LEASE.
Whether it’s from a company, an individual, short-term or long-term, from your family or friends (perhaps I should say especially if it’s from your family or friends), have SOMETHING in writing, signed by both parties, and preferably notarized, especially if it’s an agreement between individuals. This is to protect you, whether you are the one leasing out your space to others, or the one living or working in it.
For the worst-case, hope-it-never-happens, not-in-a-million-years-could-this-go-bad scenario. PLEASE.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
and the gallery yells, “AMEN!”
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 pm
(That was Mister Nygren, actually, but I can’t disagree with the sentiment. Stupid auto-fill function…)
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:07 am
amen from this corner too. we rented from lovely amazing friends with no lease and it ended awkwardly. things are cool between all now but it was a bit tense there for awhile and tears were shed (mostly by me, because i cry in cotton ads).
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:08 am
tho i stayed at thames’ w/o lease and that went lovely. but general principle still stands.