Letter · Commercial Property & Leasing
Commercial lease letter of intent (United States)
A letter that records proposed commercial-lease terms, and that offers as binding only the rows both parties initial, with an ADA access allocation left for the parties to write.
- Kind
- Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Where it applies
- United States
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for United States.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a landlord and a tenant want a written record of commercial-lease proposals before a lease is signed. Have the lawyer choose the state whose contract law will be read before any row is treated as binding.
Used for these tasks
- Draft or redline the contract for sale or heads of agreement
- Draft a commercial, retail or industrial lease from the heads of terms
- Summarise a commercial lease into a key-terms sheet
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
A tool may copy business terms from a term sheet or an email the lawyer has marked as the client's instructions.
AI may
- Place each instructed figure into the matching Part A row and leave the row blank when the instruction does not state it
- Carry an initialled Part B row forward only when both initials are already on the draft the lawyer is editing
- Insert the public-accommodation or commercial-facility label only after the lawyer has chosen it
AI must not
- Must not move a Part A row into Part B
- Must not state that a letter of intent is binding or non-binding under a statute
- Must not state that the ADA makes the landlord or the tenant responsible for a barrier
- Must not send the letter
The lawyer checks
- The state named for Part B is the state whose contract law the lawyer will read, and that reading is still to be done if it is not in the file
- Every Part B row that is treated as offered has both parties' initials
- The access paragraph uses the primer's distinction between a public accommodation and a commercial facility
- No statute of frauds is quoted, because none was opened
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
Read the full text
The full text is available after you log in. It is free. When you log in you can:
- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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