Modifying an Existing Lease

After a lease is created, you may need to amend its terms. Perhaps you agreed to lower rent for a month in exchange for labor, or perhaps you made a simple data-entry typo on the end date.

Landager allows you to edit the fields of an existing contract directly.

How to Edit a Lease

1. Navigate to the Leases list.
2. Click on the lease you need to modify to open its Detail View.
3. In the top right corner of the header card, click the three dots (Action Menu).
4. Select "Edit".
5. The original creation form will appear, pre-filled with the current data.

What You Can Change

You maintain full control over the contract parameters. You can update:

• Tenant / Property / Unit assignment (Fixing setup typos)
• Start and End Dates
• Rent Amount
• Security Deposit (amount and 'Paid' status)
• Late Fee Rules (amount, type, grace period)

Safe Edits vs. Dangerous Edits

Because Landager calculates your expected revenue based on these lease fields, editing them aggressively can rewrite your financial history.

Safe Edit: The Typo Fix

If you created a lease yesterday and realized you accidentally typed $1,200 for rent instead of $1,000, edit the lease immediately. The typo is fixed before any historical payments have been logged against it.

Safe Edit: The Unchanged Renewal

As outlined in our Renewals Guide, extending the End Date out another 12 months is perfectly safe as long as the rent amount stays exactly the same.

Dangerous Edit: Mid-Term Rent Increases

If Sarah has lived there for 8 months paying $1,000, and you decide to raise her rent to $1,100 today simply by editing her active lease form, you destroy your historical accounting validity.

The system will update her lease to $1,100, but because the Start Date is still 8 months ago, the system mathematically assumes she was supposed to pay $1,100 every single month for the last 8 months.

When you need to raise rent legally and permanently, do not merely edit the active lease. Instead, let the current lease Expire and build a brand New Lease for the new timeframe with the new financial total.

Saving Your Changes

After making prudent, necessary adjustments, simply click "Save Changes". The updates are applied to the dashboard immediately.