With tenants increasingly focused on protecting themselves from defaulting landlords, partone of this series addressed doing diligence on potential landlords and protecting the tenant’s economic bargain, but a tenant should also protect against the landlord’s defaults in noneconomic obligations. Leases significantly limit and waive tenant remedies for landlord defaults. Although these concepts are rarely completely, or even substantially, modified, tenants can negotiate for more favorable terms.
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