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  • Nov 21, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Guarantor’s Liability Ends When Tenant Surrenders, Not When Landlord Accepts Surrender

    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 ...

  • Nov 20, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

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

    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...

  • Sep 19, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Landlord Can’t Collect Future Rent Without Lease Acceleration Clause

    A shopping center leased space in its parking lot to a food truck operator for a five-year term. The tenant stopped paying rent, and the landlord sued ...

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  • Jul 26, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Tenant Doesn’t Need Landlord’s Consent to Make Non-Structural Alterations

  • Jul 25, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Tort Claim Is Regurgitation of Landlord’s Lease Claim Against Tenant

  • Apr 29, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    U.S. Government Can Terminate Lease When Premises Become ‘Untenantable’

  • Apr 28, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Individual Owners Aren’t Liable for LLC’s Lease Debts

  • Apr 28, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Jury Trial Waiver in Guaranty Doesn’t Bind Non-Signatory Tenant

  • Jan 28, 2025
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Landlord Waived Its Right to Written Notice of Lease Extension

  • Dec 31, 2024
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Email Exchange May Constitute Enforceable Lease Modification

  • Nov 26, 2024
    By Glenn S. Demby

    Bankrupt Tenant Needn’t File Formal Court Motion to Assume Lease

  • Oct 30, 2024

    Landlords Can't Challenge Constitutionality of Unenforced COVID Guaranty Nullification Law

  • Oct 30, 2024

    Landlord Must Stand Trial for Negligence to Customers that Tenant Sexually Assaulted

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