Lease Analyzer Found 4 Red Flags Before I Signed (9 Nodes) š„
New apartment. Landlord sends 23-page lease. Standard form, he says. Sign here. Built lease analyzer. Found 4 red flags. Including early termination penalty buried on page 17. THE RENTER'S BLIND SPOT: You need the apartment. You're excited. You sign what they give you. $2,400 early termination fee. 60-day notice requirement. Landlord can enter with 12-hour notice. All buried in legalese. THE DISCOVERY: Dual document extraction. First call pulls structured terms. Second call generates tenant advice. Same pattern as contract review. But optimized for renters. THE WORKFLOW: Google Drive trigger ā Download lease ā Document extraction pulls rent, deposit, terms, pet policy, termination clauses, red flags ā Merge combines with binary ā Second extraction generates tenant advice ā Code calculates move-in costs and risk level ā Sheets logs analysis ā IF checks risk level ā High risk: Alert channel ā Normal: Completion notification. 9 nodes. Tenant protection automated. THE RED FLAG DETECTION: Extraction looks for concerning clauses. Returns array with severity: High, Medium, Low. Code determines overall risk: - 2+ high severity flags ā High Risk - 1 high OR 3+ total flags ā Medium Risk - Otherwise ā Low Risk THE TENANT ADVICE: Second extraction prompt: "Summarize this lease for a tenant. What are the top 3 things to negotiate? Is this tenant-friendly, neutral, or landlord-friendly? What warnings should I know?" Natural language advice. Not just data extraction. THE MOVE-IN COST CALCULATION: Code adds: First month rent + security deposit + any fees = total move-in cost. No surprises on signing day. THE TRANSFORMATION: Before: Sign and hope. Discover problems when moving out. After: Every lease analyzed. Red flags surfaced. Negotiation points identified. THE NUMBERS: 23-page lease analyzed in 45 seconds 4 red flags identified $2,400 early termination fee discovered Move-in cost calculated automatically Template in n8n and All workflows in Github