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Your lease should have an end date, and any changes should be updated via an amendment that is countersigned by both parties
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You can write anything you want in a document.
An attorney will help you make sure that the terms and verbiage you use are both compliant with the laws in your area but also enforceable if someone violates it.
Trust me, it’s worth it to have a lease that is written by an attorney who is familiar with housing laws in your area. A good attorney will also give you some guidelines of when and how to take action if a tenant missed a payment.
Mentor
What do you mean biweekly lease? Are the tenants staying for 2 weeks at a time or do you want them to pay every 2 weeks?
Leases are really easy. You just write what you want it to be.
Mentor
Yes
You need an end date with a clause that each lease will continue on a by-weekly basis with the consent of the parties. Now a HUGE CAVEAT: local laws differ immensely on this so you need to check on how these are done. E.g., in Florida, a biweekly tenancy usually implies a week-to-week tenancy where you must give 7 days’ notice before the next biweekly period begins to terminate. Illinois is different, as is New York. And cities and counties may have their own laws (such as no rental periods for under 30 days without certain kinds of licenses). Now if you are, say, doing a vacation rental where you expect changeover after two weeks, then each lease should have a definite end period. This is highly local, but the last thing you want is to be in eviction court and the tenant somehow wins on an issue because of an issue with the lease. It would be worth contacting a local attorney specializing in this do help with your first lease, then use that form going forward.
A property manager could give you a forum, but I’d think there are standard Ohio forms, but I’m not admitted to practice nor do I own property in Ohio. But asking a lawyer who does this in Ohio would be worth it; you could ask a property manager, but they’re not lawyers—but that could be useful. Also a good thing is to look at an Ohio tenant’s rights organization or of from the Ohio courts or bar association helping tenants. That would give you stuff they could use against you that you could make sure you cover in the lease.