Q: Can a landlord change or cancel a lease admendment without agreement from the tenant?
My landlord and I signed a lease admendment to allow rent payments split up in three payments throughout the month with a monthly fee. This month they are saying the admendment/payment schedule is no longer allowed. On December 28th a leasing agent emailed me that as long as I paid my last December payment with the $100 late fee by end of day on December 30th I would still have the split payments for January, however the lease nor the admendment doesn’t state any rules regarding being disqualified from the admendment if a payment is late and instead are now stating the admendment is no longer valid and have filed for dispossessary and charging a $200 fee. Can they legally set additional terms/change terms to the admendment after the tenant and landlord has signed the original admendment without the tenants agreement as well and evict a tenant?
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