Walk It Through: The Lease Fine Print
Duties and remedies a lease cannot waive, repairs a tenant may agree to, and a jury trial kept.
A tenant's new lease says the tenant gives up any claim over the security deposit and the smoke alarm.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One tenant and one lease. A tenant's right to vacate, utility cutoffs, and what follows when a landlord relies on a void clause are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.