Tenant Leasing Illustrated – April 2013 – Force Majeure: Ad Infinitum and Ad Nauseum
As with many legal documents, leases are often filled with phrases and terms that are not commonly used and, quite frankly, do not always make a whole…
As with many legal documents, leases are often filled with phrases and terms that are not commonly used and, quite frankly, do not always make a whole…
This February has brought us a number of traditions. Some fun, such as groundhogs in Pennsylvania, and some not as much fun, such as shoveling. But being…
The most effective way for a tenant to protect itself with respect to an operating expense escalation is to conduct a lease audit. In today’s newsletter,…
Some of the fees under a lease can be downright criminal, but often of greatest concern are the landlord’s hidden profit centers. For example, landlords…
With the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy, this certainly has been an eventful month for those of us in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. Our hearts…
Every lease includes all kinds of fees and charges, many of which can be hard for a tenant to understand, particularly when being charged an additional…
In this newsletter we take a look at the real estate leasing side of the ongoing debate about sustainability and the value of going “green”. If you…
As a long hot summer draws to a close, our thoughts drift from gold medals to electricity to run our air conditioning, and we manage to link Olympic events…
One of the most important aspects of an assignment/subletting provision in a lease is to make sure that the tenant retains sufficient flexibility to complete…
In this newsletter, we analyze “good guy” guaranties and the six most important points to address as a guarantor. Since the scope of these guaranties…