Build a world class Montessori and Immersion early education and daycare for every inner city child like the Kamehameha Schools.Milestone #6.

@Nick Moriwaki I appreciate that you're discussing this in good faith.

The non-experienced seller doesn't have faith in the private/hard money lender and believes this will delay in the closing...in some cases it will delay the closing.  

Make sure you make a good faith effort to do so.

Has all the forms you'll ever need and answers all CA landlord questions.If you charge fees that are not allowed, and a tenant sues you, the judge may decide it was done in "bad faith," and then you can pay punitive damages of up to twice the amount of the deposit, pay their court fees, and return their full deposit, and all the pet fees.It's also advised to not call a separate amount a "pet deposit," because you can be limited to how you use that money. 

There is a big difference in a tenant that is struggling but makes a good faith effort to pay (and takes care of the property) and one that is "playing" the landlord or is just a flake in general.I have a tenant now on a bi-weekly rent payment because she was starting to struggle and considered moving.

You are given contracts in good time and good faith to read them beforehand, and you have every opportunity to put that contract for further scrutiny by your lawyer.If a term in a contract is not legal, then by definition it's not enforceable, but that's not the case here, OP simply didn't read the contract, and when he did - clear as daylight there's the 6% fee.You don't have to accept a contract, that's not what I'm arguing about, but the moment you put pen to paper - you accepted the contract.And the whole point of having a lawyer is to ensure there is no ambiguity in the first place, from a badly written contract.So frankly, if you don't read a contract, and you tell a court that you didn't read a contract, it probably does become enforceable - because you signed the contract saying that you read the contract in the first place!!!

If you don't make a good faith effort to do this, then we may see you in court... at least in Oregon.

But I think the landlord would need to make a good faith effort to ensure interpretation of legal documents were made into the language of the tenant, if not by the tenant or by a third party, then by themselves.From a risk management point of view, it may be riskier to have an English document translated (written) into another language and then have the translation proven to be faulty.

But could they early terminate if we're in good faith and standing (ie, still paying our rent on time)?