Where is the best place to get a lease written?

[Ryan Magnano]

Hi, everyone. I've been using a lease I found and modified since I got started. However, it is a pdf file, and is a huge pain to edit. It also looks kind of hacked up after adding in everything extra that I wanted to include.

I've decided its time to have someone write me a lease.

I thought about purchasing the landlord forms from biggerpockets, but then I read that they come in pdf files, so it sounds like they won't work for me, because I might want to make changes to the lease in the future.

All of the other sites with leases that I've found won't actually give you an editable file for the lease, they just tell you to go on their website and fill out a questionnaire, and then they generate you a lease. I don't like this, because this means if I want to add anything to the lease, I will have to manually add it EVERY time I get a new tenant.

Is there anywhere that I can pay to get a good reusable and editable lease? I really want to just get a good lease in a word file, add a few additional terms, and use it for all my tenants. This seems pretty practical, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere! 

Is this something I can find, or will I need to pay an actual lawyer to write my lease?

[Diana Flores]

I bougt lease forms from BiggerPockets and I received them in PDF and Microsoft Word formats. I used the Microsoft Word version because it is easy to modify.  Also many apartments buildings in your state will have their leases online. I recommend doing a google search  so you can add anything else that may be useful to you. 

After I had the final version of my lease, I copied & pasted the lease into my Document Template section of my TenantCloud account. 

The template allows you to use the lease for several properties & when the lease is sent to the Tenant for signing, you can put the rent amount, tenant name, security deposit amount, etc and it will be populated into the lease automatically. It is super easy to use. My tenant signed everything electronically via TenantCloud. 

P.S. TenantCloud is a property management software.