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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 ...

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Subtenant That Vacates on Time Need Not Pay Holdover Rent to Tenant

Nov 20, 2025

Glenn S. Demby

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...

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