Imagine you had a tenant for a free-standing building (say, one being used as a quick-service restaurant) who proceeded to alter that building without obtaining your consent as its lease required. To make it worse, the tenant’s alterations reduced the floor area of the building by 10%. Yet, the tenant is a good rent-payer and you don’t want to terminate its lease. Your lease might have anticipated such a situation by including the following:
Suit or suits for the recovery of the deficiency or damage or for any installment or installments of rent, additional rent or any other charge due under this Lease may be brought by Lessor at any time or, at Lessor’s election, from time to time, and nothing in this Lease shall be deemed to require Lessor to wait until the Term Expiration Date to bring suit.
It might have but, as we will see, it doesn’t. Using a December 12, 2019 California appellate court decision [that can be read by clicking: HERE], we’ll explain why that is the case. [Read more…]
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