Good advice. I hadn’t thought of asking for more on the option. Great idea. Thanks. One more question: seems the convention in Texas is to only list the payment details in the offer letters, so sounds you want to make sure the check has cleared before you sign the lease. Some folks email photos (signed contract - cashier’s check) to each other; seems like that’s a reasonable compromise? Weird to me that I haven’t seen any clauses that void the contract for non-payment nor one that references the offer letter. Does that mean that there’s some statute or case law that established that the offer letter is a binding contract?