MikeA legal AI workspace for landlord-tenant firms
Landlord-tenant firms use Mike to read leases, notices and ledgers, check whether a notice or a charge matches what the lease and the law require, and draft pleadings, demand letters and settlement terms. Every statement Mike writes links to the page it came from, so an attorney can verify the record quickly.
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Attorney: Was the notice to pay or quit served the way the lease requires, and does the amount match the ledger? Then draft the first paragraph of our answer.
Mike: The notice appears defective on two points. Section 18 of the lease requires delivery by certified mail [1], but the proof of service shows posting on the door [2]. The notice demands more than the ledger shows is owed, because it includes a late fee the lease does not allow [3]. I drafted the opening paragraph of the answer.
- [1] Ibarra lease, § 18, p. 7
- [2] Proof of service, p. 1
- [3] Payment ledger, March entry, p. 2
Mike created Ibarra answer.docx.
Example matter. Names and documents are fictional.
These matters move fast and turn on details: how a notice was delivered, what amount it states, which version of the lease applies, what the ledger shows. Mike reads the lease, the notice and the payment history together, and reports where they conflict, whichever side your firm represents.
Cuanto Labs sets Mike up against your open matters, loads your notice, complaint and answer forms, and builds the lease and ledger tables with the staff who handle your docket. Tenant payment histories stay inside your own installation.
What Mike does for your practice
- Notice and lease checks
- Mike reads the lease and the notice together and compares the delivery method, the period, the amount stated and the required wording, listing every mismatch with the page for each. Attorneys use it to decide quickly whether to cure, defend or refile.
- Ledger and arrears tables
- Use Tabular Review to pull dates, charges, payments and balances from rent ledgers and statements into one table, so the amount owed comes from the documents and each line can be traced to the entry it came from.
- Pleading and answer drafts
- Ask for a complaint, an answer or a set of defenses and Mike drafts it in your firm's template from the lease, notice and ledger. Drafts arrive as Word documents, and revisions come back as tracked changes.
- Habitability and repair histories
- Mike reads repair requests, inspection reports and messages, and builds a dated history of complaints and responses, with each entry linked to its source, for use in a defense or a counterclaim.
- Lease abstracts for portfolios
- Use Tabular Review to pull rent, term, deposit, late fees, renewal and notice provisions from every lease in a portfolio into one table, so a landlord client can see which leases differ from the standard form.
- Case law and local rule research
- Mike searches published case law on the questions your matter turns on, such as defective notice, retaliation or waiver by acceptance of rent, reads the opinions, and checks each case citation against CourtListener before it appears in an answer.
How we set it up for your firm
- Notice, complaint and stipulation forms
- We load your notices, complaints, answers and stipulations, so drafts come back in your format and follow the practice of the courts where you appear.
- Lease and ledger columns
- We build review templates that pull the same fields from every lease and ledger, so a client's portfolio or a tenant's year of payments becomes one sortable table.
- Local rules and ordinances source
- Where your firm relies on municipal codes, statutes or court rules from a research service, we connect that source during setup. Mike treats it as a connected source, not as built-in knowledge.
- Notice validity checklist
- We save a checklist of what a valid notice needs in your courts, such as period, delivery method and stated amount, so every notice review runs the same checks.
- Portfolio standard-form comparison
- For landlord clients, we load the client's standard lease so Mike can list how each lease in the portfolio departs from it.
Questions attorneys ask
Is Mike useful for both landlord and tenant work?
Yes. The documents are the same, the lease, the notices, the ledger and the correspondence, and Mike reads them the same way whichever side you represent. Your templates and saved workflows set the perspective, so a landlord firm gets notice checklists and a tenant firm gets defense checklists. The attorney decides the strategy.
Can it handle a large portfolio of leases?
Yes. Tabular Review pulls the fields you define from every lease in a folder into a sortable table, and flags documents where a field could not be found, so a person can look. The practical limit is the hardware or cloud account behind your installation, which we plan with you.
Can Mike tell me whether a notice period is right for my city?
Only if the rule is in a source we have connected, such as the municipal code or a research service your firm subscribes to. Mike then compares the notice with that text and cites the section. Without a connected source it can search published case law through CourtListener, but it does not hold local ordinances on its own, so the attorney confirms the governing period.
Can it help with high-volume dockets?
Mike drafts from your templates and the documents in each file, so routine pleadings start from a consistent draft that an attorney reviews. Saved workflows capture each step your firm repeats. Filing, calendar and court appearances stay in the systems and processes your firm already uses. Mike adds a consistent first draft and a record-checked set of facts to each file, which saves attorneys from starting every pleading from a blank page.
Can Mike catch errors in a ledger a client gave us?
It tabulates charges, payments and balances from the ledger, with each entry linked to its page, so you can see a late fee posted twice or a payment applied to the wrong month. Mike reports the entries and the arithmetic differences it finds. Whether a charge is permitted by the lease or local rules is a question for the attorney.
Can Mike prepare a tenant's repair history for a counterclaim?
Load the tenant's repair requests, messages and inspection reports and ask for a dated history. Mike lists each complaint, who received it and what response the documents show, linking every entry to its source. Gaps appear as gaps. The attorney decides how the history supports a habitability defense or counterclaim under local law.
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