Don't abbreviate 2020. It's for your own good

[jberryhill]

30. Okay, let's take the lease example

Rather than simply reciting a list of documents in a Gish Gallop, explain how this works with a lease.

You sign a lease and move in during February 2020. You change the address on your driver’s license, get your utilities changed over, and start receiving other mail there. You also pay the security deposit and your first months rent. These payments, of course, are reflected in your bank statement.

What is the scenario where your landlord derives some kind of advantage by changing the date on your lease to 2021? Because your landlord wants you to have free rent for the year?

Don’t just say “a lease” and pretend you’ve provided a relevant example.

Explain the scenario where someone gains an advantage by forging the date on a lease (of which you haven’t kept a copy), for which there is going to be a whole world of evidence about when performance actually began.