Renewal Now for office and retail leases
Understand your commercial lease.
Get clear, practical information about your lease, your costs and your options.
Understand my lease
Review your agreement, understand your obligations and identify opportunities to negotiate.
Lease reviewCheck my additional rent
Compare your landlord's annual operating cost statement against what your lease allows.
Statement review
Two starting points. One connected lease record. Free preview, no account needed.
Questions your report answers
- What will I pay for my space?How the lease sets out base rent, additional rent and other costs.
- What are my renewal options?Any renewal option, how to use it, and the notice dates.
- What flexibility do I have if my business changes?What the lease says about leaving early, subletting or assigning it.
- What financial commitments am I taking on?Costs on top of rent, and any personal guarantee.
- Who is responsible for repairs and maintenance?What the lease says you look after, and what the landlord does.
- What should I understand about my lease?The terms worth a closer look, each with the clause behind it.
Each question opens that answer in a sample report, so you can see what yours would look like.
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Explore your options.
- Term CheckLong renewal or shorter term? Compare the two over the same years, with your own figures.
- Coworking vs LeaseStay in coworking or lease an office? Compare what you pay now with an office of your own over the same years.
- Guarantee CheckSigning a personal guarantee? Estimate what it could cost you, and how much a cap would lower it.
Three simple steps
Go from your lease to a clear plan.
01
Upload your lease
Upload a typed PDF or Word document, or paste your lease text. An Agreement to Lease or the full lease; we read it to tell an office lease from a retail one.
02
Answer a few questions
Where you are in the renewal, what you've invested in the space, what matters most to you. None of it is required.
03
Get your plan
A grade, the few things that matter, what to consider asking for, and what the lease could cost you year by year.
See a report in 80 seconds.
A short walkthrough of a sample office lease: the grade, where to start, what to raise with your landlord, and what the lease could cost.
Read the transcript
Your office lease is coming up for renewal. Do you know what it says about your deadline, your rent and your options? Renewal Option reads the lease for you. Upload it, answer a few questions about your business, and in a few minutes you have a report.
Here is a sample lease for a small office in Toronto. It scores a D. The bottom line says it plainly: this lease could use real changes before you sign or renew. The report tells you where to start. On this lease, the renewal notice is due 9 to 12 months before the lease ends. That is easy to miss, and a missed deadline could cost you the option to renew.
Next, it shows what to raise with your landlord, starting with the most important. Each point tells you what the lease says and what you could consider asking for. Every finding points to the clause it comes from, so you can check it yourself. You can see where the grade comes from: risk, financial fairness, renewal strength and flexibility. And you can see what the lease could cost you, year by year, as an illustrative figure based on the numbers in your lease.
Renewal Option is software analysis, not legal advice. It helps you know what to look at and what to negotiate before you sit down with your landlord.
When is your renewal notice due?
Many leases need written notice months before they end, and missing it could cost you the option to renew. Work out roughly when yours could be due, then let the report find the exact wording.
Pop in your end date. I'll wait.
Enter your lease end date to see when your notice could be due.
Not just a grade. A plan.
See where you have leverage, and what to focus on.
Top negotiation points first, ranked by commercial impact. Then the rent and escalation picture, your renewal deadlines, and every finding grouped by topic so you can look at the lease the way you think about it.
See a sample reportI can only make out the first point.
This lease could use real changes before you sign or renew.
Sample office lease. 13 points worth raising.
1. Renewal notice
Time is of the essence: a notice even one day late could cost you the option.
2. Estoppel certificate
In the full report3. Management fee
In the full reportRent and operating costs, year by year
In the full reportThe clause behind each finding
In the full reportA draft note to take to your lawyer
In the full report
Free, no account needed: your grade, the verdict, your top negotiation point, and any term serious enough to limit the score.
What gets scored
Every lease is scored across five dimensions. Four make up your letter grade. The fifth, Negotiation Opportunity, is reported beside the grade because it answers a different question: how much you can realistically change, not how good the lease is.
Risk
What could end the tenancy or surprise you
Financial fairness
Rent, costs and what you get for them
Renewal strength
How real your right to stay is
Flexibility
Room to grow, shrink, sell or leave
Negotiation opportunity
Reported beside the grade, not inside it
An Agreement to Lease is graded only against what an Agreement to Lease is meant to contain, so you are never marked down for terms that have not been drafted yet.
Free to start. $99 for the full report.
More than a quick scan for red flags: your lease analyzed clause by clause, your renewal notice deadline worked out from its own terms, and your rent and operating costs year by year.
The grade, the verdict and your top negotiation point are free. The full report, with every point, the rent projection and the clause behind each finding, is $99 CAD per lease, office or retail. Sales tax is added at checkout. The price becomes $199 on February 1, 2027.
Meet the office.
A calm llama manager and a chameleon who can't hide a single feeling. Short videos about office life, because there's enough to figure out at work without worrying about the lease too.
Watch the seriesGross
Why is it called gross rent? The staff member learns his rent comes with additional rent, decides he owns the lobby, and takes the fern.
The newspaper guy
A commuter just wants to get to work. The man with the newspaper has a big landlord's renewal numbers, and the commuter's renewal is Friday.
Not renewing yet? Get a reminder before your deadline.
Tell us the month your lease ends and we'll email you ahead of it, so you have time to review the lease before the renewal notice deadline, not after. Free, whether or not you ever buy a report.