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Glenn S. Demby

Glenn S. Demby

Contributing Editor

Glenn S. Demby, Esq. is the contributing editor of Commercial Lease Law Insider and Fair Housing Coach, published by the Habitat Group. His newsletters have won numerous awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors and the Specialized Information Publishers Association.

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Managing Vacancies: Collect Rent from Small Tenant While Searching for Big Tenant

Put 10 protections in your landlord termination option.
Nov 25, 2025
Glenn S. Demby
CLLI_1225_MLC_Term-Option.pdf

Put 10 protections in your landlord termination option.


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Drafting Tips

Get 5 Lease Protections When Granting Free Rent to Tenants

State in a clear and precise way exactly what the concession does and doesn’t cover.
Nov 24, 2025
Glenn S. Demby
CLLI_1225_MLC_Free-Rent.pdf

State in a clear and precise way exactly what the concession does and doesn’t cover.


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Landlord Loses

Guarantor’s Liability Ends When Tenant Surrenders, Not When Landlord Accepts Surrender

Nov 21, 2025
Glenn S. Demby

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 ...


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Landlord Loses

Subtenant That Vacates on Time Need Not Pay Holdover Rent to Tenant

Nov 20, 2025
Glenn S. Demby

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...

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Clearly Limit First Refusal to a One-Time Right

Or the tenant may be entitled to exercise that right each time there’s a potential sale.
Nov 16, 2025
Glenn S. Demby

Or the tenant may be entitled to exercise that right each time there’s a potential sale.


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Feature

The Shutdown Ends: Assisted Housing Dodges a Bullet

But other HUD programs and staffers don’t.
Nov 14, 2025
Glenn S. Demby

But other HUD programs and staffers don’t.


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Are No-Fault Eviction Clauses for Guests' Criminal Behavior Enforceable?

Two recent cases illustrate how courts decide.
Nov 13, 2025
Glenn S. Demby

Two recent cases illustrate how courts decide.


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Landlord Took Reasonable Steps to Enforce Community’s No-Smoking Policy

Nov 10, 2025
Glenn S. Demby

Concerned about the continued presence of smoke in the community, a tenant with an expiring lease asked her landlord if she could renew on a month-to-month rather than annual basis ...


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Waiver-By-Acceptance of Rent Rule Applies to Assisted Housing

Nov 9, 2025
Glenn S. Demby

After the utility company turned off the power to her apartment, a Section 8 tenant and her boyfriend secretly broke into the apartment building’s utility closet and reconnected her electricity ...


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Insecure Window Screens Don’t Violate Lease’s Warranty of Habitability

Nov 8, 2025
Glenn S. Demby

A minor living with her mother on the second floor of an affordable housing community pushed through a window screen and fell to the ground 15 feet below ...


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