Another approach to lease preparation is to draft a lease that, in the very first draft, gives to the other side the protections that they would get if they were represented by someone knowledgeable concerning real estate leases. Frankly, it is easy to prepare a lease that no one will sign. The number of those changes often has less to do with the skill and knowledge of the tenant in the negotiating process than the amount of space that is available for rent in the market place. If there is a lot of space available for rent then the lessor will be willing to consider any and all suggested changes. There is no single lease form that is correct for all types of property and all types of lessors and tenants.
All leases have similarities but there is no single form that fits all transactions.
Like it or not, all lease forms must be negotiated. The problems that a tenant will experience with a lease, are often not apparent at the beginning of the lease term. Most of the legal and practical problems that tenants experience with leases are failures of omissions in the lease document. That is, the lease does not cover the issue at all or the issue has been drafted by the lessor in its favor and the tenant did not pick up on it when the lease was signed. Most of those omissions can easily be taken care of and will come to mind if the tenant has the basic approach to the transaction that it is really purchasing the property for a limited period of time.