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.
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
- Navigate to the Leases list.
- Locate the lease you need to modify in the table.
- Edit the fields directly inline in the Leases table.
What You Can Change
You maintain full control over the contract parameters. You can update:
- Tenant and Unit assignment (Fixing setup typos)
- Start and End Dates
- Rent Amount
- Security Deposit (amount)
- Late Fee Rules (fixed amount or percentage, 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 payments have been recorded against its charges on the Payments page.
Safe Edit: The Unchanged Renewal
As outlined in our Renewals Guide, extending the End Date out another 12 months inline is safe as long as the rent amount stays exactly the same, though using the "Renew" feature is recommended.
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 inline, 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, use the "Renew" feature to schedule a renewal with the new dates and rent amount.
Saving Your Changes
After making prudent, necessary adjustments inline, your changes are applied to the dashboard immediately.
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