How to Add Variant Rent on Escalations

This guide shows how to set up and apply variant rent escalations (like CPI or fair market adjustments) for a tenant. It walks you from finding the tenant and enabling escalations, to converting a declared escalation to a variant, configuring its settings, and executing the adjustment. Follow it to ensure variant rents are calculated, saved, and reflected correctly in the system.

12 steps

How to Navigate to Escalations

TIP: Remitter = Tenant

On the Home page, locate the tenant > Select the **three-dot menu** to the right of the tenant.\ \ **NOTE:** You can locate the tenant quickly by searching for it.

Select **Financial >** Select **Escalations.**

If this is the **first** Escalation, select **Has Escalations** box > Complete the Escalation information > Select **Add Escalation Date.**

How to Add Variant Rent

You can link a tenant PDF file to lease renewals and charges. See [How to Link a PDF File to Tenant Lease Renewal and Charges.](https://support.raamp.com/wiki/217)

To add a variant rent, like CPI or fair market value, select the **Let me specify Escalations Amounts by Date** checkbox.

You can make a specific escalation Variant **only** after it has been added to the list of escalations. If you need **to add** an escalation to the list, complete the **escalation information** > Select **Add Escalation Date.** To **edit** the escalation, select the **Edit** icon to the right of the escalation.

Toggle from **Declared** to **Variant** > Select **Rent Variant Settings.**

Adjust the **settings** > Select **Save.**

How to Execute Variant Rent

Once a variant rent is saved, refresh the page > Select the **Edit** icon.

Select **Rent Variant Settings.**

Select **Execute.**

Toggle from **Pending** to **Executed.**

Enter your **settings** **or** select **(Calculate)** if using an indexed rent.

Select **Save.**

Close any open modals, then click **Save** on the escalation too. You may need to refresh the page to see the changes reflected.