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Monday, November 5, 2007

Tips for Better Lease Negotiations

You will find a right apartment for your requirements after search and research. Then you will have to negotiate with the landlords of the apartment before signing the lease agreement. I want to share some tips for better lease negations between you and your landlord. I have prepared these on my own when I am moving to my San Diego apartment. Read carefully and follow these tips for negotiations with your landlord.

Ask for the copy of lease agreement and read carefully and thoroughly without missing any point. This is crucial because if you happened to miss any of the points it may later reflect on you. If you are new to these kinds of things take some one who has some experience on this regard and let him see the lease agreement on behalf of you. Get to know about your landlords’ basic information and understand his/her position. Begin the negotiation only after reading the whole lease agreement. Negotiate only with landlord or to only someone who has authority to make decisions. Choose only one person to be negotiator, if required. The best negotiation time would probably be at the time of signing the agreement. At this point of time ask all your queries and do not miss any.

I hope these tips would help make your negotiation process easy.