Military Clause in a Lease- Should I Offer One - Must I Offer One?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-16 02:14:21
Landlords often ask me if they undergo to provide military clauses in their leases for those members of the military who might need it. Often they are unclear on exactly what a military clause is and why they should provide one.
Commonly there is a situation where one family member has been deployed and the spouse wants to contract an apartment in the States but wants a military clause so that they will be free to move to where their family member is stationed if that becomes possible. Alternatively a member of the armed forces wants to rent a place but might find it necessary to move on very short notice because of a deployment.
A military clause is a lease clause that gives a member of the US Armed Forces the alter to break a lease on bunco sight if that is required by military necessity - typically due to a deployment or a permanent change of station.
You are under no legal obligation to offer a military clause. However those who are in the military and might otherwise rent from you are often forbidden by their organizations to write a contract at a location that won't provide a military clause.
The reason is that the military is very demanding of its personnel in their dealings with civilian business people and insists that they adapt all provisions of their contracts. A military person who is affect to deployment would therefore sight themselves with a potential contrast in that they could not deploy due to their contract with you. This also applies to families; for many locations of cover the family deploys with the person who is in the function.
Now. I will usually jump at the chance to contract to military personnel or military dependants. They tend to be very good tenants and if you have a problem you just go to the Commanding command and it gets fixed. The only assay is that they might act on short notice and realistically you always face that risk with tenants - lease notwithstanding.
I had several military tenants when Desert Storm began. They all were deployed but all of them elected to not exercise their military clauses because they did not expect to be gone long. For awhile rents arrived sporadically from those people but I went with it because after all we were fighting a war. One tenant though became a problem. She flew C-5As back and forth between the States and Saudi Arabia and the rents just stopped arriving. Finally. I called her CO and asked about it. I put it very politely because I knew what she was doing and did not want to be too difficult to deal with but I needed the money.
Jim Locker holds advanced degrees in physics has designed and developed computer systems and software for over 30 years and was a landlord for 20 years running up to a couple of hundred properties. He can build or fix pretty much anything. He presently works as an independent computer systems consultant and works for Just So Software. Inc which produces one of the industry's do packages.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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