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An investment advisor tenant stopped paying utilities in March 2020; it stopped paying rent in June; and it surrendered the office in November. The landlord sued the tenant and the corporate officer who signed a good guy guaranty on its behalf ...

Best Buy subleased retail property to Factory Direct on the condition that it return the premises in a “condition and repair equal to the condition and repair thereof at the commencement of said term” and pay 150 percent of the fixed rent if it held over. Factory Direct vacated before the sublea...

A shopping center leased space in its parking lot to a food truck operator for a five-year term. The tenant stopped paying rent, and the landlord sued ...

A landlord served a funeral home tenant with a notice to cure for installing a scissor lift and other alterations without the landlord’s prior written consent. Two years later ...

While shutting down a gas station operation on leased property, 7-Eleven removed underground gasoline storage tanks, lines, piping, compressors, and fuel dispensers without the landlord’s approval. The landlord sued ...

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 ...