Last updated: 2026-04-24

Uploading a lease

Uploading a lease PDF stores the document in your portfolio and, on Pro plans, lets Elliot read it so you can ask questions about what it says.

To upload a lease

  1. Open the property from the Properties tab.
  2. Go to the Documents section.
  3. Drag your lease PDF into the upload zone, or click Upload document and select it.
  4. In the dialog that appears, set the Document type to Lease.
  5. Link it to the tenancy it relates to.
  6. Click Save.

The lease is now stored securely in your portfolio and linked to both the property and the tenancy.

What Anchorlet does with the file (Pro plans)

On Pro plans with Elliot enabled, Anchorlet reads the lease PDF at upload time and extracts the key terms it can find:

  • Tenant name(s)
  • Monthly rent
  • Deposit amount
  • Lease start and end dates
  • Break clauses
  • Pet, smoking, and subletting terms
  • Rent review clauses

You'll see a confirmation screen showing what was extracted. If anything looks wrong, you can correct it before saving. The original PDF is always kept exactly as uploaded — extraction only fills in the structured fields alongside it.

What if the PDF is scanned or handwritten?

Anchorlet can read scanned lease PDFs using OCR (optical character recognition). Image quality matters — a clear scan works well, a phone photo taken at an angle in bad light may produce garbled results.

If extraction produces obviously wrong fields, you can either:

  • Correct the fields manually in the confirmation screen
  • Re-upload a cleaner scan
  • Save the lease PDF as-is and enter the tenancy details by hand from Adding a tenancy

Asking Elliot about the lease

Once a lease is uploaded, Elliot can answer questions about it:

  • "What does the lease at 42 Pembroke Road say about pets?"
  • "When does the break clause kick in on the Shrewsbury Road lease?"
  • "Compare the rent review terms across all my Ballsbridge leases."

Elliot only reads leases inside the workspace you're currently in.

Privacy

Leases are encrypted at rest in the document vault and only accessible to team members of the workspace they're uploaded to. They're never used to train any AI model. See Privacy and your data for the full picture.

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