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Negotiating A Lease That Allows Your Business To Thrive
Jul 14, 2021
Negotiating a fair lease with proper terms is crucial to the success of your business. Unfair or outrageous lease agreements kill your business! Don't go into these negotiations alone. Let Selling Restaurants do the negotiating for you... At no charge to you!
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Your Lease-Assignment or Assumption
Jan 29, 2013
Leasing matters are tricky and many business owners are lost in the verbose language Landlords use in their leases. Get one step ahead of them with this article.
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RESTAURANT LEASING HEATS-UP! DEMAND HIGH! RENTS UP!
Apr 17, 2015
As president of Ohio-based Marco’s Pizza, Bryon Stephens oversees a 600-unit chain poised to add 175 units this year. That rapid growth provides Stephens dynamic insight into one of the more pressing problems facing today’s growth-focused quick-service brands: real estate.
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HOW TO SMELL A RAT LEASING A RESTAURANT
May 22, 2013
In this weak economy, there are lots of commercial real estate foreclosures, properties behind in real estate taxes and even massive IRS and State liens on a property that unless the buyer/new tenant does his or her homework they could face huge financial losses. These are facts landlords won't tell the buyers/new tenants about in hopes of collecting large sums of money from the buyer and leaving the buyer/new tenant high and dry when the bank forecloses.
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HOW MUCH RENT SHOULD I PAY?
Jun 24, 2010
So you want to buy a restaurant. Having sold more than 350 restaurants in the past 5 years I’ve seen my share of sad stories in the restaurant business. Every day I get calls from restaurant owners whose dreams of owning and running a restaurant have been crushed by the recent weak economy...
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LOOKING FOR A RETAIL LEASE...USE CAUTION!
Jul 16, 2010
As a restaurant broker, we often get restaurant owners whose business is in trouble on many fronts but the primary reason for the trouble is the bad lease they got themselves into.
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BUYING A RESTAURANT? GET SMART ABOUT LEASES!
Nov 2, 2010
Today we had a deal where the landlord is demanding 10% of the sales price of the lease...
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LEASES FOR RESTAURANTS ARE COMING DOWN
Jan 6, 2009
The tide has changed in the retail rental market. Rents are coming down and at a fast pace.
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DON'T GUARANTEE THAT LEASE!
Jan 28, 2009
Leases can be huge liabilities for restaurant owners. Most leases are personally guaranteed by the tenant. This means, the tenant guarantees the rent will be paid through the whole term of the lease, even when the business is closed and not making money.
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LEASE ASSIGNMENTS - WHAT EXACTLY DOES THIS MEAN?
Dec 9, 2011
The purchase of a business almost always involves the buyer either obtaining a new lease or obtaining an assignment of the seller’s rights to the existing lease...
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WATCH OUT FOR THAT LEASE!
Jul 9, 2012
I was talking to a property manager in the Sacramento region about a foreclosure that is talking place on one of his properties where we had several lease space listings we were trying to fill.
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UNDERSTANDING RETAIL LEASES
May 21, 2008
A lease is an agreement granting use or occupation of real property during a particular period in exchange for a specified rent. At common law, the lease was traditionally regarded as a conveyance of interest in land, subject to the doctrine of caveat emptor ("let the buyer beware").
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