How do I change an active lease?
Open a lease and choose Amend Lease at the top of its details on web or mobile to propose rent or deposit changes, an extension of the existing term, tenant addition or release, a sublease, pets, utilities, smoking, maintenance, parking or storage wording, a custom clause, or a negotiated ending. A successor renewal and a statutory, notice or court-authorized ending have separate review processes. Custom and parking/storage wording do not automatically change billing or access.
PDF and Lease actions are also at the top of lease details. Lease actions contains options such as Start Move-Out, New Lease From This, and ending reviews when available. Amendments appears immediately after the signature audit trail. After saving, lease details opens at the exact saved amendment with its next step. Each card has Download PDF, Edit draft (or Review request for a tenant proposal), and Send for signatures. The form shows a short existing-lease summary, the effective date and the details specific to your change. The existing terms and payment setup continue except for the changes stated in the amendment. Optional contact, access, fee and wording sections expand when needed. A suggested title and description follow the entered details; open Edit amendment wording to edit them or restore the suggestions. A saved draft keeps its wording. Rent, pet and utility changes start on the first of next month unless you pick another date. Complete any requirements or supporting PDFs, then select Next. The separate review step summarizes the intended changes and shows the generated amendment text and expected billing effects. Confirm that exact review, then select Save. Back to details keeps your entries; changing them requires another review. Cancel closes the form without saving. Saving does not execute the agreement or change the live lease.
Use Edit draft for your unsigned proposal or Review request for a tenant proposal. A request or older draft must be previewed and saved before sending. More options contains Record internal review: an optional record that you checked the proposal, which does not sign, send or apply it. Cancel draft, Decline request and Cancel signing request retain the earlier evidence; existing tenants may receive a cancellation notice. Review its PDF and attachments, then send the packet so each required party signs with their own link. Tenants already on the lease can also sign or decline from Leases in their portal; that uses the same invitation as their emailed link, so an expired invitation must be resent either way. Each countersign keeps the recorded terms. For an ordinary proposal awaiting signatures, choose Review/Edit Amendment, open its retained source documents, explain the change and confirm fresh assent. Select Next, review the exact changes, then Save the new linked draft; this retires the old outstanding invitations and keeps earlier signed evidence readable. Send the new packet for every required party. An already executed change uses the correcting-agreement process. While an amendment is out for signature, its status also shows on the lease row in Leases, and on the property's own lease rows (Overview, Lease Information, and the unit's details in Units), on web and mobile, so you can check it without opening the lease. Awaiting signatures with a count, for example Amendment #2 · Awaiting signatures · 1 of 2 signed, means other signers still have to sign, and the row names who has not signed yet. Ready for your countersignature means every other party has signed and it is your turn. Countersign appears on the amendment only then. A signer declined, Signing link expired, Paper copy requested, Needs a new signing request or Signatures need review means that signing round needs your attention. When several amendments on one lease are collecting signatures, the row shows the one that needs you first and how many more there are. The Awaiting Signature filter also includes leases whose amendment, not the lease itself, is out for signature. Select the amendment status to open lease details at that amendment. On a property's lease rows, selecting it opens that lease in Leases at that amendment. Selecting a notification about an amendment, for example one that is ready for your countersignature, also opens that lease's details at the amendment.
An ordinary amendment does not ask you to rewrite the whole premises or responsibility schedule or select a new payer. Existing drafts with explicit responsibility or payment provisions keep those provisions and their original review under Additional provisions in this saved draft. Any new fee requires its own named responsible parties, separately from the rent payer or household contact. Deposit treatment does not itself transfer held funds. When the tenant being released paid deposit money, the preview says so: the deposit stays held for the lease and the end-of-lease deposit review names only the tenants still on it. Roommates often settle the departing tenant's share between themselves, for example the incoming tenant pays them back; that needs nothing more in the app, though a short signed note between them is worth keeping. Legal effect, possession, access and final billing dates are separate. Scheduled changes & status shows scheduled work and completed steps. Changes needing attention remain visible. A retry resumes incomplete work; a conflict needing specific review cannot be cleared by a generic retry.
Guarantor review appears when a known guarantor or saved guaranty review exists. Otherwise Add or review a guarantor is in More options. It records which separate guaranty applies and never turns a guarantor into a tenant or rent payer. Documents & history keeps retained PDFs, originals, certificates and delivery records together; unfinished document work remains visible. Other lease tools contains Correct lease records and End tenancy or record move-out. These tools do not silently amend the lease or establish a legal release. For a sublease, identify the subtenant and the master tenant granting it, then explicitly choose who collects its rent. The recipient choice records the sublease agreement; it does not create a rent share or change the existing payment setup. Any explicit payment provisions already saved in a draft remain separately reviewable. The recorded collection choice is read-only at countersign; older records without a saved choice show the existing default separately. An existing explicit subtenant billing share or account access follows the completed agreement and its dates. An internal approval, payer setting or request does not create legal tenancy, release another person or transfer auto-pay consent.