Selling your home usually means packing boxes and handing over the keys on closing day. But what if you need more time? Perhaps your new home is not ready, your job relocation is delayed, or you simply need a few weeks to move at a sane pace. A rent-back agreement lets you sell the house … Read more

Shopping for commercial space means decoding an alphabet soup of lease types. Two of the most common, double net and triple net, sound nearly identical. The difference between them decides who pays for the roof over your head, literally. Both structures ask tenants to pay base rent plus a share of property operating expenses. The … Read more

Commercial leases come in many flavors, and the differences decide who pays for what. Among them, the absolute net lease stands out as the most landlord friendly structure in the industry. Tenants who sign one without understanding it can face surprise costs worth tens of thousands of dollars. An absolute net lease, sometimes called a … Read more

Few tenants thought much about force majeure clauses before 2020. Then a global pandemic shuttered businesses for months, and suddenly everyone wanted to know whether their lease excused them from paying rent. Courts across the country spent years answering that question, and the answers were not always what tenants hoped. A force majeure clause excuses … Read more

Missing rent is the most common trigger, but a commercial lease default can arise in many ways. Unauthorized alterations, unpermitted subletting, lapsed insurance, or simply going dark can all put a tenant in breach. What happens next depends on the lease language, state law, and how both sides handle the critical weeks after the default … Read more