Can I sign a lease in my wife, the owners, name? Or do I need to be officially a manager?

[Johann Jells]

Our first property is still solely in my wife's name.  I do all the management of our rentals, and the others are in both our names.  Can I sign a lease, or what do I have to do to be able to sign?

[Johann Jells]

Originally posted by @Account Closed:

Originally posted by @Johann Jells:

Our first property is still solely in my wife's name.  I do all the management of our rentals, and the others are in both our names.  Can I sign a lease, or what do I have to do to be able to sign?

You should be able to draw up some type of agreement that says you are her agent, and spells out what you can and can't do on her behalf.

I found this free New Jersey limited power of attorney form online. I've never used it, I just Googled and found it:

http://powerofattorney.com/new-jersey/limited-powe...

From the description, it looks like it would work.

Thanks. Got her to sign the lease today, and hopefully by the time we next turn over a unit the properties will have been transferred into our LLC and it will not be an issue.

Another awesome tenant, BTW. We want to adopt her!