Last week we discussed the first 15 of 32 Reasons Why Landlords Sometimes Say “No!” to Lease Renegotiation Transactions. Below are the remaining 17 reasons:
16. Landlords who may be in default of their debt covenants or whose relationships with their lenders are so strained that they have difficulty securing approvals
17. Landlords who have been reduced to mere figure heads, with their lenders already having taken control of their buildings, because their lenders may be uncertain as to their future plans for those buildings
18. Landlords or lenders, where the building may already be in the bankruptcy process, that may be legally unable to modify current lease contracts
19. Landlords or lenders that may be experiencing other business or legal challenges that cause significant distraction
20. Landlord’s whose primary business may be something other than real estate and may cause too much distraction for them to be responsive to tenants’ request
21. Landlords that may have entered into contracts of sale for their buildings and cannot or will not modify existing leases
22. Landlords that are actively engaged in refinancing their buildings and prefer to wait until that initiative is complete before engaging in discussions to renegotiate any leases
23. Landlords whose staffs are overwhelmed with lease renegotiation and other requests and cannot focus on new requests
24. Lenders who don’t support or won’t fund lease renegotiation transactions
25. Lenders who are so overwhelmed with debt expirations, renegotiations, and foreclosures, and in some cases, their own survivability, that they are unable to respond to landlord requests in a reasonable time frame, if at all
26. Tenants who may be viewed by the landlord or lender as being unstable, risky, or unworthy from the perspective of their finances, credit, reputation, or otherwise
27. Tenants who may be too small to have a positive impact on the building, its value, or the landlord
28. Tenants whose space may be desired by another tenant
29. Tenants whose industry, image, or style of business may no longer be conducive to the landlord’s plans for the building
30. Tenants in a building where the landlord may prefer to empty it and demolish it or convert it to some alternative use
31. Tenants that offer too short an extension term to create any real value for the landlord
32. Tenants that demand too many concessions to result in an economically viable transaction for the landlord
So, even in this horrible economic environment, lease renegotiations don’t always make sense. Landlords, lenders, and tenants, each have good reason to say “No!” at one time or another.
Tenants: Why have landlords said “No!” to your company?
Brokers: Why have landlords said not to your tenants?
Let me know.
Read Part One of this Post.
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