What A Lease Cannot Say

• Waiving or altering a remedy for premises that violate the covenants of fitness and habitability.
• Waiving security deposit rights.
• A confession of judgment.
• Excusing the landlord from liability for failing to perform, or negligently performing, a duty imposed by law.
• Waiving the right to a jury trial, or a notice or procedure required by law, in a proceeding under the agreement.
• Making a party liable for the other's legal costs or attorney fees beyond what a statute permits.
• Releasing a party from the duty to mitigate damages.
• Letting the landlord change the agreement after it starts without the tenant's written consent, apart from the adjustments the section allows on written notice of not less than 30 days.
• Requiring the tenant to give the landlord a power of attorney.
• Charging an extra fee on every allowed method of paying rent; at least 1 method must be free of one.

• §MCL 554.633

Those are among the provisions the section lists, and a provision that violates the section is void.

• §MCL 554.633

Already struck down. A rental agreement must not include a clause that, not less than 90 days before it was signed, had been prohibited by statute or declared unenforceable by a published decision of the Michigan Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court on Michigan law.

• §MCL 554.633

Whether a particular clause is enforceable, and what follows if a landlord relies on one, are questions for a licensed Michigan attorney.

• §MCL 554.633