Deleting a Property (Safeguards & Warnings)

Because Properties sit at the absolute top of the Landager data hierarchyPreview unavailable, deleting one is a serious action.

If you sell a building or lose a management contract, you may want to remove it from your dashboard. However, Landager implements strict safeguards to prevent you from accidentally destroying years of financial history.

The "Cascade" Protection Rule

[!CAUTION] You cannot delete a Property if there is any active data attached to it.

Before the system will allow you to delete a Property, you must ensure it is completely isolated. The "Delete" button will fail and display a dialog listing what is left if the Property currently contains:

1. Leases
2. Rent payments
3. Expenses
4. Maintenance requests
5. An active tenant

How to Safely Remove a Property

If you truly want to wipe a building from your Landager account forever, you must dismantle it piece by piece from the bottom up. Please note that expenses and maintenance requests cannot be deleted in the UI yet. If your property has any logged expenses or maintenance requests, it cannot be deleted.

If the property only has leases, payments, or active tenants, follow these steps:

1. Delete all rent payments attached to the property's leases (a lease with rent payments cannot be deleted).
2. Navigate to the LeasesPreview unavailable page and permanently delete all leases attached to the units inside the building.
3. Ensure there are no active tenants remaining in the units.
4. Finally, use the Action Menu on the Property Header to click "Delete Property". Empty units do not need to be deleted individually; they are deleted automatically together with their property.

Because this process intentionally requires massive effort, it ensures you never accidentally delete crucial tax records while moving quickly.

The Better Alternative: Do Not Delete

In 99% of cases, you should not delete the property.

If you sell a building, you still need the historical expense and rent collection data for your tax returns that operating year. If you delete the property, that data is permanently destroyed.

Instead of deleting, we heavily recommend:

1. Ending all active leases to turn the units "Vacant."
2. Archiving the property visually by adding "SOLD" or "INACTIVE" to the beginning of the Property Name via the Edit toolPreview unavailable.

This keeps your historical, interconnected data perfectly intact for accountants, while signaling to you that the building is no longer an active part of your management workflow.