Write a lease offer anyone can read
Most lease offers hide the real monthly cost behind fees discovered at signing. Itemize everything up front and the deal closes faster — because nobody is bracing for a surprise.
By the ORCA Estate team
Ask a tenant what they will actually pay to move in and most cannot answer — not because they didn't read the offer, but because the offer wasn't written to be read. Base rent in one place, the deposit in another, admin fees, parking, utilities and move-in charges scattered across a PDF. People do not sign what they cannot follow; they stall, renegotiate, or quietly go with the building that gave them one clear number.
One page, every dirham of it
Put the whole first month on one page: rent, deposit, every fee with its name, and the total to move in. If a line needs a paragraph to justify, that line is the problem. An itemized offer feels cheaper than a vague one even at the same price, because the reader stops pricing in the unknown.
Say what happens next
- Dates: when the offer expires, when keys are handed over.
- Refunds: what the deposit covers and how it comes back.
- Renewal: what changes at renewal, stated now — not discovered in eleven months.
Clarity is not a courtesy; it is a closing tool. The offer a tenant can explain to their spouse over dinner is the offer that gets signed in the morning.