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.

ARTICLES

Feature

Get Flexibility to Decide on Removing Tenant Installations When Lease Ends

An extended deadline is a classic win-win.

Oct 29, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

MLC_1125_Installations.pdf

An extended deadline is a classic win-win.

Plugging Loopholes

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.

Oct 28, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

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

POP QUIZ

Can Tenants Sue to Block Leases for Legal Marijuana Uses?

The legal danger of marijuana leasing isn’t limited to federal prosecution.

Oct 27, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

The legal danger of marijuana leasing isn’t limited to federal prosecution.

Landlord Wins

Landlord Needn’t Mitigate Damages to Accelerate Defaulting Tenant’s Rent

Oct 25, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

A fitness center with nearly four years left on its lease notified the landlord that it was abandoning the premises. You’d better start making mitigation efforts to relet the premises as soon as possible, the notice advised. But the landlord ignored the advice ...

Landlord Wins

Landlord Doesn’t Have to Evict Tenant to Mitigate Damages

Oct 24, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

A dry-cleaning tenant began paying reduced rent, starting in 2018. In August 2021, it terminated the lease and moved out. By this time, it owed the landlord about $200,000 in back rent. The landlord sued...

Feature

How the Government Shutdown Will Impact HUD Operations & Housing Programs

Here’s a rundown on what to expect.

Oct 9, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

Here’s a rundown on what to expect.

in the news

HUD Offers One-Time “Good-Cause” OCAF Exception for RAD Owners

Here’s how owners struggling with rising costs can apply.

Oct 8, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

AHMI_11_2025_Cert-Form.pdf

Here’s how owners struggling with rising costs can apply.

Recent Court Rulings

Court Nixes Resident’s Civil Rights Money Damages Lawsuit Against PHA for Fatal Fire

Oct 6, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

A 5-year-old autistic boy living in an insect-infested Philadelphia public housing building with no working smoke detectors set fire to the bugs crawling in his family’s Christmas tree, lighting a blaze that burned down the building and killed 12 people ...