Reading the Lease Before You Sign it on a New Apartment When you choose an apartment and the landlord agrees to let you live there, then you will need to sign a lease with the landlord. There are a lot of people who will get into an apartment and won’t spend a lot of time looking through the lease or figuring out what is happening in it. They just sign on the line and then start to move their stuff in. But the lease is considered a legal...