A landlord granted a new clothing store tenant a $135,000 allowance for “white box” improvements with the tenant to be responsible for any excess costs. Upon receiving a construction bill of $169,000 ...
Rats invaded an office suite food pantry and made their way into the suite leased by the temporary staffing agency. When exterminators failed to fix the problem ...
New York City Local Law 11, a.k.a. the Façade Inspection & Safety Program (FISP), requires owners of buildings higher than six stories to inspect the exterior walls and patch up potentially dangerous falling debris ...
A tenant agreed to lease three floors of office space in a new building being constructed in Palo Alto. But the tenant pulled out of the deal after completion of the construction of the base, shell, and core, claiming that ...
A tenant moved out without paying the full $6,550.40 rent for the final month. Before refunding the security deposit, the landlord deducted $1,204 from the security deposit to cover the unpaid rent balance in accordance with the lease provision stating ...
A hailstorm severely damaged the roof, skylights, and rooftop HVAC units on a commercial warehouse. The landlord and tenant each claimed that the other was responsible for making the necessary repairs. The issue boiled down to an interpretation of two clauses in the lease ...
A landlord sued the tenant’s guarantor to collect three years’ worth of unpaid rent. The guarantor claimed that it was no longer liable for the tenant’s lease obligations, contending that ...
At the start of the COVID crisis in February 2020, a restaurant tenant vacated its property and told the landlord that it wouldn’t pay rent in March, April, May, or June. The tenant offered to resume rent payments in July, but ...
