Storage space and parking space rental agreement template

Storage Space and Parking Space Rental Agreement

Parties: Owner · Renter

1. Purpose

This agreement sets out the terms on which the Owner rents the storage space or parking space described below to the Renter, and what each party must do. It is a rental of space only and is not a lease of a home or of business premises.

2. Space

Space rented: [[Type, e.g. storage unit, locker, garage or parking space]]

Number and location: [[Number or label, and the address or site]]

Size and access route: [[Size, and how the space is reached]]

The parties record the condition of the space on handover, with photographs where possible.

The Owner may move the Renter to a comparable space of similar size and access, on [[30]] days’ notice, only where building work, safety or the law requires it, and at the Owner’s cost.

3. Permitted use

The Renter uses the space only to store its own goods or, for a parking space, to park [[Number]] roadworthy vehicle(s) that are registered and insured as the law that applies requires: [[Vehicle or goods to be kept, if known]]

Nobody may live, sleep or work in the space, run a business from it, sublet it or let anyone else use it without the Owner’s consent in writing or in electronic form.

4. Prohibited items

Unless the Owner agrees in writing or in electronic form and the law allows it, the Renter does not store hazardous, flammable, explosive, toxic or polluting substances, fuel, gas bottles or leaking batteries, perishable food, living animals or plants, firearms or other items whose keeping the law restricts, stolen or unlawful goods, or anything that can damage the space or cause a nuisance.

In a parking space the Renter does not repair or wash vehicles, store fuel or let fluids leak. The Owner may ask the Renter to remove an item that breaks this clause and, where there is danger, may act at once to make the situation safe.

5. Term and renewal

The agreement starts on [[Start date]] and runs [[for a fixed term of 6 months / month by month]]. [[After a fixed term it continues month by month / It then ends]] until it is ended under the clause on ending and moving out.

6. Rent and payment

The Renter pays the rent shown in the price schedule of this contract or, if there is none, [[Rent per month and currency]], in advance on or before the [[1st]] day of each month. The rent excludes tax unless the price schedule says otherwise.

The Owner may change the rent on [[30]] days’ notice in writing or in electronic form, and the Renter may end the agreement before the change takes effect. If rent is more than [[7]] days late, the Owner may charge a late fee of [[Late fee, or none]], as far as the law that applies allows.

7. Deposit

The Renter pays a deposit of [[Amount]] before the start. The Owner holds it as security for rent and for damage to the space, and returns it within [[14]] days after the Renter has emptied the space and handed back the keys and access devices, less the amounts that are owed and that the Owner can show, with an itemised statement. No interest is paid on the deposit unless the law requires it.

8. Access and security

The Renter may enter the space during these hours: [[Access hours]] Access codes, keys and cards are personal; the Renter does not share them and tells the Owner at once if they are lost. If the Renter uses its own lock, it gives the Owner a way to open the space in an emergency: [[Emergency access arrangement]]

The Owner provides the security measures stated here, such as gates, lighting or cameras: [[Security measures, or none]] They are for general safety only and do not promise that no loss will occur.

The Owner may enter the space with [[48]] hours’ notice for maintenance or inspection, and at once in an emergency or to prevent danger; it records what it did and tells the Renter afterwards. The Owner handles any camera recordings as the law that applies requires.

9. Goods, insurance and risk

The goods and vehicles stay in the Renter’s possession and at the Renter’s risk. The Owner provides space only and does not take the goods into its care, unless the parties state otherwise here: [[Services of the Owner for the goods, or none]]

The Renter confirms that the goods are its own or that it is entitled to store them, and keeps a list of what is stored. The Renter insures the goods and vehicles for their value or accepts the risk itself, and states their value here: [[Value of the goods and the cover needed]]

The Owner is not liable for loss of or damage to them except as stated under Liability.

10. Unpaid rent

If rent is not paid on time, the Owner reminds the Renter in writing or in electronic form.

The Owner may take the following steps only as far as the law that applies permits. If the rent is still unpaid [[14]] days after the reminder, the Owner may restrict the Renter’s access to the space until it is paid. Before it deals with the goods in any other way, the Owner gives the Renter notice of at least [[30]] days in writing or in electronic form, at the last address the Renter gave.

The goods remain the Renter’s until they are lawfully dealt with, and any money obtained from them beyond what is owed is paid to the Renter.

11. Care and damage

The Renter keeps the space clean, causes no damage to it or to the shared walkways, doors and equipment, and tells the Owner without delay of any leak, pest, damage or defect that it notices. The Renter pays for damage caused by it, its visitors or its goods.

The Owner keeps the building, roofs, doors, lighting and shared areas in reasonable repair and tells the Renter of work that affects access.

12. Ending and moving out

Either party may end the agreement by giving [[30]] days’ notice in writing or in electronic form, effective at the end of a month.

The Owner may end it at once if the Renter seriously breaches it, for example by storing prohibited items or by not paying rent after the steps under Unpaid rent, and does not remedy the breach within [[7]] days of being asked to, or without delay where there is danger.

On the last day the Renter empties and cleans the space, removes all goods and returns the keys and access devices. Goods left behind after the agreement has ended are handled only as the law that applies permits and after notice to the Renter of at least [[14]] days.

13. Liability

The Owner is liable, as the law provides, for loss of or damage to the Renter’s goods that its own fault, or a defect in the building that it has not repaired in time, causes. Otherwise it is not liable for loss of or damage to goods and vehicles, for example from theft, fire, water or pests, unless the law requires it.

The Renter is liable for damage that it, its visitors or its goods cause to the space, the building or other people. Except for intent, gross negligence, personal injury or where the law does not allow a limitation, each party’s total liability for other loss under this agreement is limited to [[Amount, e.g. twelve months’ rent]].

14. Governing law and disputes

This agreement is governed by the law stated under Governing law. The parties will first try to settle any dispute in good faith. Otherwise the courts stated under Jurisdiction decide, unless mandatory law provides otherwise.

Payment terms

The rent is payable monthly in advance, by bank transfer to the account stated in this contract or on the invoice, or by [[card / other payment method]].

Governing law

[[Country or state whose law applies]]

Jurisdiction

[[Courts that decide disputes, e.g. the courts of your city]]