Your first lease

A lease connects a unit to a tenant, a rent and a set of dates. Once it exists, the rent roll, the arrears ladder and the indexation calendar all follow from it without further input.

Before you start

You need the unit (your first building), the tenant's name and contact details, and the agreed rent and start date. Everything else has a sensible default.

Write the lease

Pick the contract type first. It decides which clauses are offered and which rules apply, and there are fourteen of them. See contracts and clauses.

Dardaris drafts the document from a template in the tenant's language, fills in the parties, the term, the rent and the charges, and shows you the whole thing before anything is sent. Change any clause you like. Dardaris will ask whether that was a one-off for this lease or a change to your library. See the clause library.

The deposit

The amount is capped by jurisdiction, and Dardaris shows you the cap that applies before you agree one. See jurisdictions. The two usual forms are a blocked account in the tenant's name and a bank guarantee. Record which one it is, because it decides what happens at the end. See ending a lease.

After signing

The day the lease starts, three things begin on their own:

1. The first invoice is issued with a structured payment reference. See rent and invoicing.
2. The registration deadline goes on the compliance calendar, where the jurisdiction has one.
3. The indexation date is scheduled. Nothing is raised without you. See when indexation happens.