Parts of a Lease: The Terms of the Lease There are a lot of steps that you will need to keep up with when it comes to moving into an apartment. Before the landlord hands over the keys though, you will need to look over the lease that they will provide. You may think that this is just a list of rules and that the landlord is doing it to be unfair. But this is actually a legal document that will protect both you and the landlord while...