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Strategies For No-Grief Rent Relief

Recent downturns in the economy have increasingly found retail and office tenants in the position of having to seek rent relief in varying degrees from their landlords in an effort to overcome short-term financial difficulties. While the landlord finds unpalatable the prospect of reducing a rental income stream to which it has become accustomed, the prospect of having a vacancy in a shopping center, with its attendant adverse effect on neighboring tenants, as well as the additional costs involved in replacing the tenant through the payment of brokerage fees and lease inducements, may be even more unpalatable.

18 minute read August 18, 2003 at 09:14 PM
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Jeanne Banka
Strategies For No-Grief Rent Relief

Recent downturns in the economy have increasingly found retail and office tenants in the position of having to seek rent relief in varying degrees from their landlords in an effort to overcome short-term financial difficulties.

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