At various times during the life of your business, you will be
faced with having to lease premises. At some point during the
negotiations for those premises, you will receive the
landlord's standard form of lease amended to incorporate the
negotiated business terms and your landlord will expect you to sign
it (or at least hope you will sign it) with few, and preferably no,
changes. Since there is no such thing as a standard form of lease
– each landlord makes up its own form – the lease you
receive will likely range in size from 30 to over 100 pages, often
with very small print and bad, and sometimes incomprehensible,
English.
Instead of spending hours reading it and asking for a lot of
changes, which make your landlord have to feign outrage, below is a
non-exhaustive list of reasons why you should simply sign the lease
you receive from the landlord.
