united-states residential-lease texas real-estate
Can a Texas landlord have the rental contract microscopic / unreadable?
<p>My landlord in Texas has the whole residential lease contract formatted for Legal paper, but, for whichever reason, they instead print the PDF as zoomed out on Letter, and the whole thing becomes unreadable small print with wide empty stripes left and right ("no text was cut", they proclaim).</p>

<p>They claim their procedure was cleared with their legal dept.  Is it in fact legal?</p>

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<p>For example, in <a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&amp;group=01001-02000&amp;file=1619-1633" rel="nofollow">California, Sec 1630</a>, has the following provision for some types of contracts:</p>

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  <p>(b) All the provisions of the contract are printed legibly in
  eight-point type or larger.</p>
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<p>Generally, contract terms and conditions must be legible, especially when one is trying to enforce the contract. If the court cannot read the contract as written, it can create its own reasonable terms. </p>

<p>According to <a href="http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/can-formatting-and-font-size-in-your-con-16212/" rel="nofollow">JD Supra</a>(this is not for a rental lease, but a business opportunity contract):</p>

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  <p>In one instance, a Texas business opportunity contract must have certain information in ten point type, including: the terms of payment; a detailed description of the acts or services that the seller will perform for the purchaser; the seller’s principal business address; the name and address of the seller’s registered agent in Texas; the delivery date; and a description of the nature of the buy-back or security agreement, if there has been one represented by the seller. <a href="http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/BC/4%20(2)/51/E/51.201" rel="nofollow">TEX. BUS. &amp; COM. CODE § 51.201</a>.</p>
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