Facts: A tenant signed a five-year lease to operate its restaurant in a strip mall. After two years, the tenant asked the owner if it could sublet the space to another restaurant tenant, but the owner refused to sign a consent agreement. The tenant went ahead with its plans to sublet its...
Facts: An employee of an office building tenant suffered injuries after she tripped and fell on a raised edge of the metal molding surrounding a trapdoor on the floor of the tenant's pantry room. The purpose of the trapdoor was to access a crawl space approximately three feet high...
Facts: An owner and a staffing agency tenant signed a three-year lease for office space. Under the lease terms, the owner could charge a $25-per-day late-rent fee. The owner later sued the tenant for breach of the lease, and the tenant abandoned the space before the end of the lease term...
Facts: While shopping, a wheelchair-bound mall customer encountered architectural barriers that she claimed discriminated against her on the basis of her disability. The customer sued the mall's owner and property manager for alleged violations of Title III of the Americans with...
Facts: As part of his duties, a maintenance worker serviced the lights in an office building owned by a real estate company (owner) and managed by an office management corporation (manager). One of the building's tenants contacted the manager and requested that the worker change an...
Facts: A tenant operated a restaurant-bar on the first floor of a commercial building. A company controlled by the president of the tenant's company had sold the entire building to a new owner in a sale-leaseback transaction whereby the owner leased the first floor back to the tenant...
Facts: A tenant and owner signed a lease extension for shopping center restaurant space that the tenant had been renting to run its pizza parlor. The extended lease term was from June 1, 2010, to May 31, 2026.
Facts: A garment manufacturer tenant signed a lease for the seventh-floor of a building. The tenant and owner acknowledged that because the building's elevator was undergoing renovations, it might not be available for service at the start of the lease term. To account for the possible...
Facts: A tenant rented commercial space for its beauty salon under a 10-year lease that required rent plus a percentage of the building's operating costs (overhead charge). The estimated monthly overhead charge was $800, and the owner was obligated to calculate the actual overhead...
Facts: An owner sued a tenant for breaching its two leases after the tenant abandoned both of the owner's buildings that it rented and refused to pay the remaining rent due under the leases. Because the tenant failed to appear at two summary dispossess proceedings for nonpayment of...
Facts: A tenant signed a lease for office building space. At the same time, the tenant also signed a personal guaranty, guaranteeing his rent obligations under the five-year lease. The tenant moved out of its office space a year before the lease term was to end, but the owner didn't...
Facts: A doctor rented space in a medical office building owned by a real estate corporation. The corporation sued the doctor for nonpayment of rent. The building's property management company notified the doctor that he had 60 days in which to vacate the space; otherwise, the...
