Lease Management
Create, edit, and track leases, deposits, and documents.
17 articles in this section to help you master Landager.
Creating a New Lease / Onboarding Historical Data
How to connect a tenant to a unit by creating a lease contract. Learn how to configure rent amounts, enter backdated leases, and safely manage overlapping timelines.
Deleting a Lease (Warnings & Edge Cases)
Understand the catastrophic data loss associated with deleting a lease record. Learn why you should terminate a lease instead of deleting it to protect your historical ledgers, and how the Domino Effect safeguards deletion logic.
Ending a Lease Early (Evictions & Breakages)
How to manually terminate an active lease before its natural end date, triggering the automated Domino Effect to secure your ledger.
Renewing a Lease (Active and Expired)
How to handle lease renewals without losing historical data. Learn why updating an existing lease is preferred for identical renewals, and when to utilize the new Scheduled future-dates for rent increases.
Understanding Lease Statuses
Learn how the Landager automation engine categorizes leases as Active, Scheduled, Expired, or Terminated, and how chronologically these statuses affect your dashboard revenue.
Adding Unit Condition Photos (Move-In/Out)
Protect security deposits by uploading high-resolution photos documenting the physical condition of the unit at move-in and move-out.
Filtering and Searching the Lease List
How to navigate a massive database of historical and active contracts using the Lease list filtering, searching, and sorting tools.
Handling Roommates & Guarantors (Co-Signers)
How to structure leases involving multiple tenants or co-signers in Landager's database to ensure accurate communication and financial responsibility.
Modifying an Existing Lease
How to edit the terms of an active lease. Learn what fields you can safely update, from rent amounts to end dates, without destroying historical data.
The Logic Behind Month-to-Month Leases
How to configure a lease with no definitive end date. Learn how Landager handles month-to-month contracts so they remain indefinitely active.
Printing or Exporting Lease Details
How to quickly print a lease summary screen for a tenant meeting or export your entire lease database for tax preparation.
The Importance of the Security Deposit Checkbox
How to use the 'Deposit Paid' checkbox on the lease creation form as a visual dashboard reminder to secure funds before handing over keys.
The Lease Ledger: Expected vs. Collected
Understand how the lease ledger calculates your Expected Revenue based on active lease terms, and how it compares that to your actual Collected Payments.
Understanding Late Fee Configurations
How to automate late fee tracking by configuring exact rules (flat fee vs percentage) and grace periods directly on the lease contract.
Uploading Lease Documents (PDFs)
How to digitize your filing cabinet by securely uploading signed lease agreements, addendums, and compliance PDFs directly to the lease record.
Viewing All Leases for a Specific Property
How to use the master Leases page and table sorting properties to instantly generate a rent roll report for a specific multi-unit building.
Decoding the Lease Detail View
A complete guide to reading and understanding the Lease Detail page. Learn where to find financial terms, uploaded documents, condition photos, and historical payments.