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What Happened: The federal government leased two floors of an office in Queens to house the Field Office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The 15-year lease included the following clause ...
What Happened: Tenants, an elementary school operated as a Delaware limited liability company and the husband and wife who owned it, wanted to renew their 10-year lease after it expired. But rather than an extension, the owners insisted on a lease amendment naming the LLC as the only tenant ...
What Happened: A landlord got the individual principal of a new restaurant to sign a guaranty of the tenant’s performance of the lease. The guaranty, which the tenant didn’t sign, included a waiver of jury trial clause. Disputes later arose, and the tenant and landlord sued each other for breach of contract ...
What Happened: A medical tenant remained in possession and paid the landlord normal rent after its one-year lease term expired. The landlord accepted the rent payments and didn’t demand that the tenant leave. Six months later, the property suffered flood damage. The tenant asked the landlord to make repairs. The landlord refused. So, the tenant notified the landlord that it was terminating the lease.