and Answers 100% pass
Lease formation - ✔✔greater than 1 year void unless in writing subscribed
by party to be charged or his/her lawful agent; one year or less may be
oral.
`-written residential lease - ✔✔must be written in clear and coherent
manner, using words with common and everyday meaning and must be
divided and captioned in its various sections. Cannot prohibit occupancy
by dependent children of tenant or tenant's spouse or contain clause
requiring tenants to remain childless
Tenancy Types - ✔✔common law 4: tenancy for years; periodic, month-to-
month, year-to-year; tenancy at will; or tenancy at sufferance.
1
100% Pass Guarantee Katelyn Whitman, All Rights
, Assignment and Sublease - ✔✔If lease in dwelling with less than 4 units,
tenant may not assign lease without consent of landlord, which consent
may be unconditionally withheld without cause. Landlord who
unreasonably withholds consent must release tenant from the lease if
tenant has so requested upon 30 days' notice; if more than 4 units, tenant
has right to sublease, upon complying with notice provisions contained in
statute subject to written consent of the landlord, which consent may not be
unreasonably withheld. Different rules apply for public housing, rent-
stabilized properties and coops)
Warranty of Habitability - ✔✔every lease deemed to contain a warranty of
habitability; landlord deemed to warrant that leased premises are fit for
human habitation and for the uses reasonably intended by parties and that
the occupants shall not be subjected to conditions that are dangerous,
hazardous or detrimental to their health and safety. Cannot be waived.
Holdovers - ✔✔if lease term longer than 1 month, holding over does not
give landlord option to hold tenant to a new term equal to the term of the
2
100% Pass Guarantee Katelyn Whitman, All Rights