Deleting a Lease (Warnings & Edge Cases)

Deleting a Lease is the single most destructive action you can take in the Landager database. Because the lease is the central anchor connecting a Tenant Profile, a Physical Unit, and your Financial Ledger, deleting it permanently severs those connections.

Why You Almost Never Delete a Lease

If Sarah rented from you in 2024, paid $1,200 perfectly every month for a year, and then moved out cleanly on December 31st... do not delete her lease.

1. If you delete her lease, you delete the mathematical proof of why she occupied that unit.
2. If you delete her lease, you must delete all 12 of her logged rent payments first.
3. If you delete her lease, you permanently destroy your 2024 tax ledger for that property.

Instead of deleting a lease that has finished its natural course, simply let the system transition it to Expired. It will disappear from your "Active" dashboard view naturally, while meticulously preserving your financial history in the background.

When Should You Actively Delete a Lease?

There is only one valid reason to delete a lease from Landager: Data Entry Error.

If you just hired a new property manager, and they accidentally created a lease for Unit 4B when the tenant is actually moving into Unit 4A, you should immediately delete the erroneous 4B contract while it is empty and harmless.

The Active Data Block

[!CAUTION] You cannot delete a Lease if there are any logged Rent Payments attached to it.

Landager forces you to confront the financial destruction before allowing a lease deletion.

If a lease has even a single $50 partial payment logged against it on the Payments tab, the system will block your attempt to delete the lease contract entirely.

If the lease was genuinely created in error but an employee already accidentally logged a payment against it, you must dismantle the error systematically:

1. Navigate to the lease's Payments tab.
2. Delete every single logged payment transaction one by one.
3. Once the lease is financially empty, return to the lease header, click the Action Menu, and confidently select "Delete".