Handling of deposit when renewing lease

[Kai G.]

Hello,

this should be an easy question: I'm renewing the lease for a tenant and I'm using the Zillow platform. The new lease basically is a copy of the old one, but I do not know how to document the deposit "carry over" from the old to the new lease. The Zillow system has no provision for that. I want to make sure that it is well documented that I am carrying over the deposit. Is there an addendum I should do? Thanks in advance!

[Bill B.]

Don’t use a whole new lease. Use an addendum. 

It is Agreed this date x/x/xx that the existing lease for the property at address x is amended in the following ways. New rent is x, new expiration date is x, new rules, fees, etc are x. Done. Should be one paragraph max.