Addenda

No lease agreement, no matter how legally ironclad, is by itself adequate to protect the landlord. For example, does the lease have a room-by-room checklist of the property’s condition upon move-in and move-out? There are always issues that require further details no matter how comprehensive your lease agreement is. When that happens there is no need to make changes directly to the lease contract itself. By adding an addendum to your lease agreements, a number of issues can be addressed and are considered a legal and binding part of the rental contract. Landlords should always be prepared to accommodate tenants’ special requests and other necessary details with addenda. Addenda can be one page or many pages, and more than one addendum can be used to cover as many issues as the landlord finds suitable.

Use addenda to:

• Address whether tenants are allowed to have pets, types of pets allowed, and other conditions
• Communicate special conditions or rules and regulations
• Authorize special privileges
• Accommodate unusual or special request
• Make temporary (or permanent) modifications to the original lease contract
• Add a new tenant or remove one
• Convey information about roommate situations
• Provide record of move in and out condition of property

Be sure to keep signed copies of all addenda along with the signed lease agreement in case they are needed in court. Our ezLandlord lease builder includes the option to include many different addenda (some legally mandatory) in your lease package.