lease for Arizona group home

[Nate T.]

I have a potential tenant for a residential home in Mesa AZ who wants to use the rental property as a group home. I spoke with our landlord/tenant attorney, and he said it would need to be a commercial lease, since the tenant is a business. The attorney doesn't have a standard commercial lease or group home lease.  They would have to draft the lease from scratch for that scenario, which would be expensive. 

Does anyone know an attorney in AZ that has a standard lease for renting to a group home? Or does anyone have a template you could share?

[Jessica Zolotorofe]

Worth every cent of your attorneys fees!! Especially with a little bit of a unique/objectionable tenant use, I would never go at it on your own. There is no substitute for good legal assistance when there is a lot of potential liability on the line. I have witnessed too many horror stories that end in significantly more cost than the initial legal fees would have. A standard residential lease, fine, but I wouldn't suggest it for almost any commercial lease, and definitely not for this type.