Articles by Glenn S. Demby

Among the victims of Hurricane Harvey, which swept through Houston in August 2017, was a testing services tenant’s relationship with its landlord. The tenant claimed that the mold spawned from Harvey’s rains rendered the office space unsafe for its employees ....

Tenants may insist on the right to install special equipment on the roof of the building so they can operate their business within the space they lease from you. Among other things, reserve the right to make the tenant physically shield or screen the equipment so that it doesn’t create a public eyesore that mars your building’s image and appearance.  

They may result in artificial reductions in gross sales.

A tenant notified its landlord that it was experiencing financial difficulties and needed to terminate its two-year office lease six months early. Email and phone conversations ensued, but no written agreement was reached. So, when the tenant stopped paying rent and vacated the building with sev...