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As many of us learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not uncommon for landlords and tenants to revise their lease terms on the fly in response to changing conditions. The general rule is that it’s okay to revise a written lease, provided that those changes are themselves put in writing. This is particularly true when, as is often the case, the lease includes a clause expressly barring oral modifications of lease terms. After all, written leases would become meaningless if parties could claim they had an oral agreement allowing them to violate the lease’s terms.
