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- Allowing Subleasing for Commercial Tenants
In some office building markets throughout the country, some existing tenants have sought to sublease some or all of their rented space as they shrink operations or eliminate locations. The problem for landlords is whether it is a better strategy to enforce lease restrictions against subleasing or to work with tenants on the theory that the sooner cheap sublease space is filled, the better for all. (In addition, another problem could be whether landlords should insist on sublease restrictions in new leases being negotiated now.)....
(more)- Lease Clauses Needed For Protection Of Confidential Information
Typically, a landlord has access to leased premises at all times for purposes of making repairs and inspections. But in today’s information age, many tenants have valuable trade secrets, confidential information, and unique documentation in tapes, CDs, DVDs, listings, and other intellectual property that should not be accessible to the landlord. A software company tenant, for example, should try to obtain the right in the lease to maintain locked documentation rooms where even the landlord’s janitorial and maintenance people have no access and the landlord is given no copies of keys, pass cards, or cipher lock combinations to the additional locks installed by the tenant on the documentation room door......
(more)How To Make Quick Profits When A New Hospital Comes To Town What happens to nearby property values when a new hospital is built? Usually the surrounding area feels a ripple effect. Land values increase. Developers are quick to provide new space for offices and stores. The biggest profits are realized by the investors who get involved early (during the planning stages) before or while the hospital is built.......
(more) The following is a useful list of items that should be clarified between the parties in the lease of a commercial building:......
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