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Negotiating Relocation Rights

Despite the apparent risks, relocation provisions are frequently not a potential tenant's priority concern when negotiating the business points of a lease. This is a serious oversight. Signing a lease with an overly broad relocation provision can lead to many issues if the landlord elects to exercise its right to relocate the tenant.

12 minute read May 30, 2019 at 01:11 AM
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Terrence M. Dunn
Negotiating Relocation Rights

A relocation provision, in its simplest description, is a contractual right in a commercial lease that permits the landlord to relocate a tenant to another space. Even without further explanation, one can imagine how having such a provision in a commercial lease would be problematic for a tenant.

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