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Escalation Wars!

Operating escalation challenges falls into the seasonal category. When economic times are good, commercial tenants pay rent escalations like clockwork. When times are hard, the same tenants -- aided by lease audit consultants working on a contingency basis -- suddenly "discover" hundreds of thousands of dollars in alleged escalation overcharges.

18 minute read February 01, 2004 at 01:23 PM
By
Jeffrey Turkel
Escalation Wars!

Some certainties in life are ever present, like death and taxes. Some are seasonal: Every winter, birds fly South, and every March 19, the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.

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