The Single-Tenant Net Lease Guidebook — Start Here

This site’s net lease library, arranged as a curriculum — each entry a full guide. Bookmark this page; everything else links from it.

Foundations

Start with the triple net lease guide (the structure end to end), then the lease-type taxonomy and the NNN glossary. The pros and cons reality-checks the brochure version, and the risk taxonomy prices what can go wrong.

Structures in depth

Ground leases · double net · sale-leasebacks · gross and modified structures for contrast · leasehold vs fee · the exotic zero-cash-flow deal.

The buying process

The step-by-step acquisition guide, then diligence in two halves — the lease documents and the property itself — plus negotiation leverage, financing, and the closing paperwork decoded.

Tax and exit machinery

The 1031 pillar anchors a full exchange library; the ownership tax stack lives in benefits, deductions, and the step-up endgame.

Tenants and markets

Per-brand underwriting on the tenant directory (cap ranges, credit notes, buyer criteria for 20+ brands), geography on the state directory, sector economics from QSR to medical, and the current market read.

The working tools

Six calculators — cap rate, value, lease cost, expiry, balloon, 1031 deadlines — and, whenever reading turns into shopping, representation the listing side pays for.