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where it came from. If it can’t,
it says so.
What should I check before I sign a rent agreement in Chennai?
Five things, in the order they usually cause trouble.
Registration. A lease of twelve months or more has to be registered at the sub-registrar. The familiar eleven-month agreement is written to stay just under that line.1
Deposit. The Model Tenancy Act recommends a cap of two months’ rent for a home, but it only binds states that adopt it.2 Tamil Nadu has not, so three to six months is still normal in Chennai.3
Lock-in and notice. These are two different clauses. Check the notice period is the same for both sides — one month is common, two is not unusual.1
Maintenance and meters. Get maintenance, water and the electricity meter reading written in, with the reading on the day you move.4
Five things, in the order they usually bite.
Registration. A lease of twelve months or more must be registered at the sub-registrar. The eleven-month agreement is written to stay under that line.1
Deposit. The Model Tenancy Act recommends two months’ rent.2 Tamil Nadu has not adopted it, so three to six months is still normal here.3
Registration is national and settled. Deposit limits change by state — flagged above. Not legal advice.
A blank box that forgets you by morning, and answers with the same confidence whether it knows or is guessing.
You must register any rent agreement, and the deposit is capped at two months everywhere in India. Notice periods are fixed at fifteen days by law. Your landlord cannot ask for more.
Five things, in the order they usually bite.
Registration. A lease of twelve months or more must be registered at the sub-registrar. The eleven-month agreement is written to stay under that line.1
Deposit. The Model Tenancy Act recommends two months’ rent.2 Tamil Nadu has not adopted it, so three to six months is still normal here.3
Registration is national and settled. Deposit limits change by state — flagged above. Not legal advice.
Read the claim, then read where it came from.
Follow-ups come from your question, not from a list of things the app would like you to try.
Work you come back to lives in a project.
Three weeks of moving house is one place: fourteen answers, the draft agreement, the meter photo, and what Sage is allowed to remember about you inside it. Nothing leaks into exam prep.
Fifty-four answers and twenty-two files, and not one of them sitting in a list called “New chat”.
“Sage, how long do I steam idlis, and how do I know when they’re done?”
Both hands are wet. The answer comes back in fourteen words, spoken once, and the written version with its sources is waiting in Recipes when you sit down.
“Sage, how long do I steam idlis, and how do I know when they’re done?”
Ten to twelve minutes on a medium flame.1 Press the top with a wet finger — if nothing sticks, they are done. Rest them two minutes before you scoop.2
The part most assistants bury in a settings page.
Three things can happen to a sentence you type. Two are yours to switch off, in words you can read in one pass — and you can see every fact Sage is holding.
Three things happen to what you type.
Every one of these ends with a person you can actually reach.
Five things, in the order they usually cause trouble.
Registration. A lease of twelve months or more has to be registered at the sub-registrar. The familiar eleven-month agreement is written to stay just under that line.1
Deposit. The Model Tenancy Act recommends a cap of two months’ rent for a home, but it only binds states that adopt it.2 Tamil Nadu has not, so three to six months is still normal in Chennai.3
Lock-in and notice. These are two different clauses. Check the notice period is the same for both sides — one month is common, two is not unusual.1
The registration rule is national and settled. Deposit limits change state by state — that one is flagged. This is not legal advice; a lawyer or the state rent authority can confirm your agreement.
At eleven at night, the last thing you need is a confident guess.
A lease of twelve months or more must be registered at the sub-registrar. The eleven-month agreement is written to stay just under that line.1
An assistant that shows you where it got that.
Every fact in that answer has an address.
The deposit rule was the one Sage would not state flatly. It said so, in the answer, where you would read it.
A Goat Scale conceptThe Model Tenancy Act recommends two months’ rent.2 Tamil Nadu has not adopted it.3
Brokerage in this area runs about half a month.no source
Settled where it is national. Flagged where it changes by state. Never legal advice.
The mark is a set line with its source marker raised at the end — the whole argument of the product, drawn once.
Four places, light and dark. The bar never grows a fifth.