{"id":82,"date":"2018-02-22T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2020-02-07T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:32:31","slug":"lease-start-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/lease-start-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"On what day does your lease start? It&#8217;s a multiple-choice question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese New Year, which in 2018 is on February 16, is one of several days that people around the world mark as New Year&#8217;s Day. We think of January 1 as New Year&#8217;s, but in colonial America until 1752, New Year&#8217;s Day was March 25. The Hebrew new year, lunar like the Chinese calendar, is on September 9 this year, and the Cambodian new year will start in mid-April.<br \/>\nLeases should be simpler than the calendar, but they aren&#8217;t. On what day does a commercial lease start? Th<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">e landlord and tenant take on some obligations the day they sign the lease. The tenant&#8217;s right to possession may start on a second day, the tenant&#8217;s obligation to pay property taxes and insurance may start on a third day, and the tenant&#8217;s obligation to pay rent may start on a fourth day. Before you sign your next lease, be sure you understand what starts when. If you don&#8217;t understand the various start dates when you write and sign the lease, the jury won&#8217;t understand them when its members read it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese New Year, which in 2018 is on February 16, is one of several days that people around the world mark as New Year&#8217;s Day. We think of January 1 as New Year&#8217;s, but in colonial America until 1752, New Year&#8217;s Day was March 25. The Hebrew new year, lunar like the Chinese calendar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leasing","category-real-estate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}