Terminated lease for tenant

[Harita Konjeti]

I have given 60 day termination of lease to my tenant. Tenant is requesting lease doc of first year. Should i share the lease or not. Bigger pockets i need help.

[Curtis Denlinger]

They should have their copy. But when the lease was signed it was a binding agreement between you (or whoever you bought the property from so now you since it transferred) and the tenant. Anything in the lease needs to be honored. In my experience, it seems like a tie or even anything that is even close to a tie goes in favor of the tenant. It’s our responsibility as the owner, the landlord to cross our Ts and dot our Is. I would guess if you didn’t share and the issue resulted in a lawsuit, not providing the lease would be an automatic strike against you and the judge would lean in favor of the tenant. 

They shouldn’t be anything shady in your lease so there should be no reason or hesitation to share it in my opinion. 

Out of curiosity, why are you hesitant to share the lease?  Had the lease been amended or have you drawn up a new lease in the years after the first year?  If after the first year you signed a new lease, that new lease would now be the controlling lease. If you only amended or added an addendum, then besides those sections that were amended, the original lease still applies.  End of the day, you signed, they signed, all was agreed upon, I would provide a copy of the lease.