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Is Your Bushwick Lease Signing or Re-Signing Coming Up? Watch Out for These Shady Lease Clauses!

Here are a few things to keep an eye out for when you're negotiating with your landlord or prospective landlord about your living arrangement!

Is Your Bushwick Lease Signing or Re-Signing Coming Up? Watch Out for These Shady Lease Clauses!
Looking east at row houses on DeKalb Avenue on a sunny afternoon. Photo By Jim Henderson, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Your Bushwick Lease Signing or Re-Signing Coming Up? Watch Out for These Shady Lease Clauses!

Here are a few things to keep an eye out for when you're negotiating with your landlord or prospective landlord about your living arrangement!

Is Your Bushwick Lease Signing or Re-Signing Coming Up? Watch Out for These Shady Lease Clauses!

Always read the fine print, Bushwick.

Due to rapid changes sweeping the neighborhood, finding a livable place in Bushwick is increasingly difficult. Brokers and landlords sometimes capitalize on the chaotic rental environment by presenting prospective tenants with lengthy leases that include undiscussed clauses, or don’t guarantee that the apartment meets New York’s housing safety standards.

Bushwick Daily finds that local apartment hunters have recently been presented with leases as long as 30 pages…

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