Clause Coach
Clause Coach™
Paste your sample lease clause. Get the grade. Pick your side, and see how the language stacks up against the playbook. Instant, free, and educational.
The clause
The evaluation
Educational information only: not legal advice, and not a substitute for a lawyer reading the whole lease. AI-generated; may contain errors.
A grade is not a game plan
Every clause lives inside a lease, and every lease lives inside a deal. What this language should say depends on your leverage, the other provisions, and your state’s law — things no tool can see. Paul Barton has negotiated over 600 commercial leases; if this clause matters to you, have him look at it in context.
What a scouting report looks like
A landlord-form holdover clause, graded from the tenant’s side: enforceable, expensive, and fixable.
“If Tenant remains in possession after the expiration of the Term, Tenant shall pay two hundred percent (200%) of the Base Rent in effect at expiration for each month of holdover, together with any and all damages, costs, and expenses of Landlord arising therefrom.”
Where this language is strong
- The rate is defined and predictable: a fixed multiple of the final Base Rent, not an open-ended “fair rental value.”
Watchpoints
- 200% from day one is at the top of the market; courts enforce these multiples as written between commercial parties.
- The “any and all damages” catch-all stacks the landlord’s consequential damages, such as a lost replacement tenant, on top of the doubled rent.
- No cushion exists for a short, good-faith holdover during a delayed move-out.
Use the Playbook and run the play
“If Tenant remains in possession after the expiration of the Term, Tenant shall paytwo hundred percent (200%)one hundred ten percent (110%) for the first sixty (60) days, and one hundred fifty percent (150%) thereafter, of the Base Rent in effect at expiration for each month of holdover, together with any and all damages, costs, and expenses of Landlord arising therefrom, and Landlord shall not seek consequential damages for any holdover of sixty (60) days or less.”
The strikes and additions above are the moves a tenant may ask for after receiving the grade and the coach’s feedback. Your report grades the clause from your side of the table, explains what the language is doing, and flags the points worth negotiating.
The fine print: what this tool is, and is not
This tool provides general educational information only, not legal advice. It compares the language you paste against typical negotiated market provisions; it cannot evaluate your deal, your leverage, or your state’s law, and it makes no judgment about enforceability. Using it does not create an attorney-client relationship with Paul B. Barton, LLC or Olsen Barton LLC. Do not paste confidential or sensitive information: party names, addresses, and dollar amounts are not needed to evaluate the language. Results are generated by an AI model and may contain errors; have a lawyer review any lease before you sign it.