Drafting Your First Residential Lease 2023 (2025)
Lease common denominators
As mortgage interest rates are reaching unaffordable levels, new apartment construction in the U.S. is exploding.1 And the owners and managers of all these new buildings will want firm but fair leases in place for tenants, making this an ideal time for lawyers with lease-drafting experience. But what if you’ve never written up a lease agreement? Like any new skill, drafting your first residential lease can be intimidating. But an overview of the basics can give you the confidence to add lease-drafting skills to your current offerings.
At Drafting Your First Residential Lease, veteran landlord-tenant attorney Jessica M. Kramer will walk you through the fundamentals of a residential lease agreement. You’ll review:
- Applicable Wisconsin statutes and administrative regulations
- Common definitions and considerations
- Necessary components of a lease agreement
- Offer, acceptance, and consideration
- Written versus oral agreements
- Prohibited provisions
- Remedies
Lease common denominators
As mortgage interest rates are reaching unaffordable levels, new apartment construction in the U.S. is exploding.1 And the owners and managers of all these new buildings will want firm but fair leases in place for tenants, making this an ideal time for lawyers with lease-drafting experience. But what if you’ve never written up a lease agreement? Like any new skill, drafting your first residential lease can be intimidating. But an overview of the basics can give you the confidence to add lease-drafting skills to your current offerings.
At Drafting Your First Residential Lease, veteran landlord-tenant attorney Jessica M. Kramer will walk you through the fundamentals of a residential lease agreement. You’ll review:
- Applicable Wisconsin statutes and administrative regulations
- Common definitions and considerations
- Necessary components of a lease agreement
- Offer, acceptance, and consideration
- Written versus oral agreements
- Prohibited provisions
- Remedies
From understanding the landlord-tenant relationship to the contractual elements necessary in a solid lease, develop the know-how you need to add landlord-tenant law to your practice with Drafting Your First Residential Lease.
1Biggest apartment construction boom in decades likely to bring renters uneven relief
Product details
- Identify standard and necessary components for residential lease agreements
- Know the common considerations that should be addressed in most leases
- Become familiar with statutes and administrative code provisions governing landlord-tenant law
- Learn to identify and correct potential problems in a residential lease
- New lawyers
- Landlord-tenant lawyers
- Attorneys seeking to add landlord-tenant law to their practice
- Real estate professionals
- Mediators
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