Articles by Glenn S. Demby

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

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...

Two recent cases illustrate how courts decide.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...