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[Music] [Applause] [Music] your tenant comes into your office and asks you to remove her boyfriend from the lease it turns out her boyfriend's either in jail or left Florida and she wants him removed from the lease do you do it can you do it my name is Harry heist and I'm the founding partner of heist Weiss and walk the property managers partner the property manager will face a situation at some point where a tenant wishes that their roommate their spouse the other tenant is removed from the lease you can't just remove someone from a lease Elise is a legally binding document it's a contract it's a contract between the owner of the property and between the tenants all the tenants who sign the lease so as much as the remaining tenant would want their boyfriend or husband to be removed from the lease you can't just simply remove someone from a lease you must think about the security deposit what happens to the security deposit when they move in both of them moved in and both are on the lease and we have a security deposit hanging out there if we were to just remove somebody from a lease how would the security deposit be affected let's say you do agree that someone will be removed from a lease you talk to the owner the owner said fine take him off the lease and he's an agreement that he that he's taken off of the lease so everyone's in agreement that he's taken off of the lease what about the security deposit you don't want the person who you take off the lease to come back six months later when the lease is being renewed or six months later when the tenant who the remaining tenant is now vacating you don't want that person coming back and making any claim to the security deposit and it happens if you are going to remove someone from a lease all parties must be in agreement the person is leaving the person who's staying the owner of the property or if you sign on behalf of the owner then you would of course have to sign the form it's called a tenant vacating addendum in that tenant vacating addendum will clearly state that the person is being removed from the lease everyone is in agreement with this but most importantly the person being removed from the lease is now relinquishing any claim whatsoever to this security deposit any time you remove someone from a lease you want that person to relinquish their claim to the security deposit so when it comes time to process the deposit you don't have to deal with that person who left you don't have to send a claim to that person who left the person who's leaving is wiping their hands clean of the security deposit now if you add someone to Elyse we have a tenant addition addendum and this is where...