Can you negotiate a contract after signing it?
Verbal promises made after signing a lease or contract are difficult to enforce without written proof. People rely on the other party's word to update agreements later, which often leaves them stuck with unfavorable terms they cannot change.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Signing contracts without reading them or without negotiating terms.
- 2obtaining official documentation before signing the lease
- 3sending an email to the landlord reiterating the phone conversation to create a paper trail
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“If they need negotiating, then yes.”source ↗
“Just signed our lease today. They currently have our 2 pets on the lease as non ESA animals. They told us to sign the lease and once we receive our ESA letters, to submit them via email and then they can regenerate a new lease without the monthly pet rent and deposits. Is this true?”source ↗
“I know i should have gotten it in writing but it’s too late now.”source ↗
Where this came up
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