Understand every lease before you sign it. Plain English guides to clauses, deposits, renewals, and the terms that matter most.
Rooftop solar can cut your electricity bill dramatically, but the upfront cost of buying panels stops many homeowners. Two popular alternatives let you go solar with little or...
Corporations use leases for far more than office space and company cars. For large real estate and equipment deals, finance teams sometimes use an exotic structure called a...
You have driven your leased car for three years, kept up with every payment, and now the lease is ending. You return the keys expecting a clean goodbye,...
Common area maintenance charges are one of the most misunderstood line items in a commercial lease. Every year, tenants across the United States pay their CAM bills without...
Opening a specialty coffee shop in a shopping center, only to watch the landlord lease the space next door to a competing coffee chain, is a nightmare scenario...
Imagine signing a ten-year lease for the perfect office suite, building it out to your specifications, then receiving a letter from your landlord: you are being moved to...
Most commercial tenants assume that as long as they pay rent, they can run their business however they like. In retail leases, that assumption is often wrong. Many...
If you operate a retail store in a shopping center, your lease may contain a restriction you have never heard of: a radius clause. This provision limits your...
When you sign a commercial lease, your landlord's mortgage lender may ask you to sign a separate document called an SNDA. It often arrives with little explanation, buried...
Signing a commercial lease in New York City almost always involves some form of personal guarantee. Landlords want a person, not just a company, standing behind the rent...