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Property Management Systems Can’t Handle This Clause – And if you have them, they will be critical for 2020

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We have been seeing a clause for years that is both brilliant and fair to both landlords and tenants – a CAM cap carryforward. The concept is fairly simple. You calculate and apply a cap as required by the lease. However, if there is any excess CAM that the landlord could not bill and collect… Continue reading Property Management Systems Can’t Handle This Clause – And if you have them, they will be critical for 2020

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Stop – before you grant rent relief! Consider this!

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With the number of rent relief amendments we have been processing over the last few months, it is clear that many landlords are trying to work with their tenants so that they can make it through these COVID-impacted times. The most well-respected retail landlords have always considered the tenant mix of their properties. The right… Continue reading Stop – before you grant rent relief! Consider this!

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Looking to the future – dealing with lease related issues

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Hopefully, in the next few weeks, we will be slowly but steadily getting back to a new normal. We will all be faced with the question of minimum rents during this period from both the landlord and tenant perspective. But there will be other issues we will all have to consider as we come out… Continue reading Looking to the future – dealing with lease related issues

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Could this be worse than a Most Favored Nations clause?

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We have addressed the Most Dreaded Lease Clause a few times over the past couple of years. We have also addressed another lease language concept – co-participation. But what happens when you combines the concepts? That combination was evident in an acquisition we were working on this week. If you have time, take a minute… Continue reading Could this be worse than a Most Favored Nations clause?

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Premises trash and utilities vs. common area trash and utilities

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It is not uncommon for a landlord to provide or arrange services for the actual tenant premises within a shopping center. Perhaps the tenants are provided water services to their spaces through one water main/meter, or the landlord arranges for trash removal from the premises rather than having each individual tenant arrange the service themselves.… Continue reading Premises trash and utilities vs. common area trash and utilities

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Taxes and insurance addressed in CAM – and then again, separately

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It’s not unusual to see terms referenced several times throughout a lease. Often, it will be a definition of a concept in one clause and the use of that defined term in another. But, sometimes, it can be confusing as to why a term is mentioned multiple times. Case in point is when insurance or… Continue reading Taxes and insurance addressed in CAM – and then again, separately

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An approach to lease administration and due diligence

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When we are verifying rents at a property, we do all of our calculations – prorata shares, caps, breakpoints, CPI calculations, lease year language applications and so on – prior to looking at what the current landlord has done. I don’t know about you, but I can be fairly easily led by what someone else… Continue reading An approach to lease administration and due diligence

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Be explicit – even fixed CAM can be tricky

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There’s no doubt that prorata CAM, tax and insurance calculations can be tricky. You have to make sure the shopping center definition is correct, the expenses are correct, the method of calculating the leasable area is correct, the method of calculating vacancies is correct, the definition of excluded area is correct, the treatment of excluded… Continue reading Be explicit – even fixed CAM can be tricky