STU HELLER
WITH OVER 20 YEARSEXPERIENCE CAN HELP
- negotiate or draft a better lease
- save you money
- avoid legal pitfalls
- ask the important questions
- identify and minimize unavoidable risks
- catch details you might otherwise miss
- insulate your business from lease-based economic ups and downs
- identify significant provisions that are missing
- do a better job of protecting your business
Reviewing a proposed lease on your own can be very costly if it results in:
• inability to keep a good location or escape from a bad one
• inability to sell a business or a particular location
• landlord imposed changes to the space, common areas, or rules and regulations, that hurt your business
• inability to make desirable changes to the space or operations
• unanticipated costs, losses or competition from another tenant
In commercial leases the devil is in the details:
• leases have pages and pages of complicated details which most people do not know how to interpret
• the details are important and typically favor the landlord
• you need help to identify, understand and improve the important lease provisions
IF YOU ARE A LANDLORD YOU MAY NOT BE PROPERLY PROTECTED BY YOUR STANDARD LEASE
• you may be using an old or someone else’s standard lease that has not been reviewed in years
• you may be making promises you cannot keep or did not know you were making
• provisions in your lease may be harsher than necessary
• you may be able to safely accommodate revisions requested by would-be tenants
