Facts: A law firm leased an entire floor in a commercial condominium building. The lease required the tenant to continuously maintain a letter of credit, and to replace that letter of credit if it was no longer valid at any point. A failure to do this would be a lease default....
Facts: A car wash tenant signed a lease with a renewal option every five years. The tenant exercised its renewal option twice. During the second renewal period, a dispute between the tenant and owner was settled by a court. The settlement stated that the tenant could operate...
Facts: A shopping center owner signed a lease guaranteed by the tenant’s business partners. The tenant stopped paying rent. The guarantors refused to pay. They argued that because the “landlord” was listed as a different business entity in the lease than in the...
Facts: The owner of retail space sent a notice informing its tenant that it was in breach of the lease because it hadn’t installed a fire alarm system. The tenant refused to install a system, and the owner was fined by the city. The owner filed a petition with a court to...
Facts: A retail tenant was required by its lease to get the owner’s consent for all assignments and subleases. The tenant defaulted on its lease by, among other violations, assigning without permission the lease to its separate corporate entity, which later subleased the...
Facts: A retail tenant’s lease provided that a certain number of parking spaces would be available outside the space it rented. The lease provisions specified that the tenant would let the owner know at the beginning of each month how many parking spots it would need. The...
Facts: An office building owner rented space to a media company. The tenant was permitted to vacate the space early, in the third year of the lease, provided that it gave 90 days’ written notice, returned the keys to the owner, and paid any outstanding rent and other...
Facts: The owner of space leased by a kitchen and bath product retailer locked the tenant out of its space after it paid partial rent for several months and then stopped paying rent altogether. The tenant claimed that it was relieved of the obligation to pay rent after the owner...
Facts: A clothing store tenant signed a modification and extension agreement to extend its five-year lease. There had been no guarantor for the original lease, but the owner required the tenant’s principal to guaranty the lease in order to extend it. The modification and...
Facts: A video rental store tenant stopped paying rent after the shopping center’s owner hung “Retail Space for Lease” signs in the windows and invited real estate brokers and potential lessees to tour the space. The tenant claimed that the owner’s...
Facts: A shopping center owner sued one of its tenants, challenging the enforceability of lease provisions conditioning the tenant’s obligation to open a store and pay rent on a specific retailer operating a store in the center on the commencement date of the lease. It...
Facts: A supermarket customer fell and was injured in the parking lot at the shopping center. She sued the tenant, claiming that the fall occurred because of a defective and dangerous condition there. The tenant notified the customer that the center’s owner was responsible...
