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'As Is' Deals: What Do the Parties Really Mean?

By Paul Robeznieks
October 01, 2003

In today's competitive commercial real estate market, landlords and tenants spend much time and effort to structure lease transactions to add value to their respective portfolios. They each factor into their economic analysis relevant concerns such as rent, construction costs, construction build-out periods, operating expenses and revenue forecasts. An additional factor that should be considered in this process is the cost incurred by both parties to administer the lease obligations during the lease term for ongoing maintenance, repair and replacement items.

In many lease transactions the landlord agrees to build out some type of shell condition (raw, vanilla, turnkey or variation thereof) prior to delivery of the premises to the tenant. Thereafter, the landlord and tenant's ongoing maintenance, repair and replacement obligations in the lease typically correspond to their build-out obligations and warranties on workmanship (ie the landlord does the structural and exterior, and the tenant does nonstructural and interior).

This article will: 1) explore some of the subtle issues that arise in those deals structured in the “as is/where is” format, and 2) discuss negotiating points that could benefit both the landlord and tenant, rather than burdening them, during the administration of such a lease throughout its term.

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