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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Landlord Wins

Landlord May Accelerate Abandoning Tenant’s Rent Without Mitigating Damages

Feb 23, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a restaurant tenant abandoned its lease with six years remaining on the term. The lease contained an acceleration clause giving the landlord the option, in the event of the tenant’s default, to declare “the total amount of rent payable during the Term of the Lease, ...

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Get 9 Protections When Agreeing to Take Over a New Tenant’s Lease

Don’t get saddled with unforeseen additional costs.

Jan 31, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

CLLI_0225-MLC.pdf

What do you do when a desirable tenant that you badly want is currently stuck in a lease at another location? One possibility is to enter into a takeover arrangement under which you pay the tenant’s monthly obligations under the existing lease through the end of its term. But while this frees up...

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