Tenant Leasing Illustrated – May 2013 – Fire Breathing Assignment and Subletting Clauses
Many clients voice the often valid complaint that lawyers get too bogged down in details and definitions. In our profession’s defense, however, there...
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...
Tenant Leasing Illustrated – March 2013 – Avoiding the Shadow of Duplicative Escalation Charges
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...
Tenant Leasing Illustrated – Feb 2013 – You Cannot Win When Auditing the Harlem Globetrotters
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,...
Tenant Leasing Illustrated – Jan 2013 – Use Our Cleaning Service and Nobody Gets Hurt
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...
Tenant Leasing Illustrated – Dec 2012 – A Generator for Your Lease
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...
Tenant Leasing Illustrated – Nov 2012 – When Your Lease Charges You For Luggage
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...
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...
