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  • Oct 25, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

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

    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 ...

  • Oct 24, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Landlord Doesn’t Have to Evict Tenant to Mitigate Damages

    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...

  • Sep 20, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Landlord Entitled to Attorney’s Fees in Enforcing Attorney’s Fees Clause of Lease

    Upon learning that it had closed its coffee shop, a shopping center landlord sued a tenant and guarantor for violating the “continuous operations” clause of the lease ...

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  • Aug 22, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Restructuring Lease Doesn’t Get Defaulting Tenant’s Guarantors Off the Hook

  • Aug 21, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Tenant Can’t Prove Damages from Landlord’s Warranty of Suitability Breach

  • Aug 20, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Tenant Abandons Property by Failing to Remove It Upon Eviction

  • Jun 24, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Landlord Needn’t Prove Damages to Evict Tenant for Material Breach

  • Jun 23, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    No Full Rent Abatement for Mold When Part of the Space Is Safe

  • May 26, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Tenant Can’t Prove Oral Agreement to Modify Lease Term

  • May 25, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Landlord Terminated Lease Before Tenant Filed for Bankruptcy

  • Mar 24, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Tenant Must Pay $197,356 for Turning Tobacco Store into a ‘Head Shop’

  • Mar 22, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Lease Doesn’t Give Tenant 10-Day Grace Period to Pay Rent

  • Mar 21, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Limited Right to Re-Enter for Repairs Not Enough to Prove Premises Liability

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