• The premises and their use

  The address, the permitted use, and whether the tenant takes the entire building or a unit, with an optional diagram and area.

• Term and rent

  The start date, a set end date or a lease that renews monthly or yearly, the base rent and an optional share of profits.

• Costs

  Gross, modified gross or net rent, who pays each utility, rent paid in advance and a security deposit.

• Improvements and possession

  Initial improvements, who does and who pays for them, early possession, and what the tenant may change during the tenancy.

• Conditions

  Whether the tenant's attorney must approve the lease as to form or as to form and content, and any additional conditions.

• Expiry and acceptance

  When the offer expires, and a signature block for the landlord to accept it.

• A lawyer reviews it before it is used

  Your answers are prepared into a draft and reviewed by a qualified lawyer, rather than handed back to you as a finished form.

An offer to lease is a written proposal from a prospective tenant to a landlord, setting out the terms on which the tenant would lease the premises. It is used before the lease itself is drawn up, so both sides can see the main terms and agree them first.

This builder asks for the tenants and landlords, the premises and their use, the term, the rent (and any share of profits), the type of rent, who pays each utility, rent paid in advance and a deposit, initial improvements, early possession, and improvements during the tenancy. It also asks whether the tenant's attorney must approve the lease, any additional conditions, whether the landlord has a standard form of lease, and when the offer expires. There is a block for the landlord to sign to accept.

Every figure and period is one you give; none is suggested for you. The document records the offer. It does not say what accepting it does, and the draft does not set out what the law of your state requires of an offer to lease. A lawyer can tell you both.

Not sure? Talk to an attorney about your situation first.

These are separate documents, for different jobs.

• Commercial lease agreementsSet the terms for renting business premises.View document
• Commercial Lease ApplicationCollect a prospective tenant's details for a commercial lease.View document
• Residential lease agreementsSet the terms for renting a home.View document
• Lease amendment agreementsChange the terms of a lease already in place.View document

• Offering to lease a shop on stated terms
• Making an offer subject to your attorney approving the lease
• Asking for early possession to fit out the premises

• Residential lease agreementsSet the terms for renting a home.View document
• Commercial lease agreementsSet the terms for renting business premises.View document
• Roommate agreementsAgree how housemates share rent, bills and space.View document
• Short-term rental agreementSet the terms for letting a property to a guest for a short stay.View document