Because it was written by landlords with the help of attorneys.
Our lease agreements are designed to be as protective as legally possible of landlords. Tenants are afforded many, many rights under most state laws, which are designed to protect renters from big, mean old landlords. Consumer advocacy groups have strong lobbies and constantly push to tilt landlord-tenant laws ever more in favor of renters.
But there are very few landlord organizations and lobbies in the U.S., so there’s almost no one to push back. So we do what we can to help protect your property from destruction, and protect you from rent defaults and tenant lawsuits.