$200 repair clause in lease

[gazer]

We rent a single family house in Virginia. In the lease is an added clause that states "any repairs under $200 are the responsiblity of the tenant, over $201 the responsibility of the landlord unless the fault of the tenant". My husband signed the lease without me, and claims he didn't see it. It is a handwritten addendum, and he was not required to initial it. The lease is not under the Landlord Tenant Act. Is this a legal addition to the lease?

 

[mary hartman]

very unlikely it would hold up in court...because if it was so important to the landlord he would have been included it numbered it and would have been obvious in the original lease,

OK the landlord is a cheap bassstard and couldnt afford a few dollars to change it.

And an addendum without signatures, or intitials and dates leaves a lot of questions un answered, so you have a copy of the lease, what else in on the addendum? is it on a seperate paper or scribbled on the lease?

Is it before or after the signitures of the landlord...

I guess this is your clue, to look for a new place when the lease is up.