Section 8 Defaults

• Library: Real Estate Leasing and Landlord-Tenant Actions and Remedies 2011

The tenant is entitled to know specifically the grounds on which the landlord asserts the rights to declare forfeiture, and if a notice specifies “non-payment of rent and for other violations,” the generality of “other violations” is insufficient to declare forfeiture for violation of a subletting provision. Independence Flying Serv., 386 S.W.2d at 404.

Depending on whether counsel represents the landlord or the tenant, counsel should consider including one or more of the following lease provisions:

· Rent...