Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business

Product Description
Despite what you’ve been told, there is no standard lease
You’ve heard it already: “This is our standard lease―sign it.” But often, you can negotiate what you need. And to do that, you’ll need insight into the rules.
Armed with Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business, you’ll find the advice and strategies you need when negotiating with an experienced landlord. This practical handbook explains how to:
analyze your space needs
find the ideal location
understand the landlord’s rent calculations
learn how to negotiate your tenant improvement allowance (TIA)
make sense of common area maintenance allocation
suggest alternatives to hefty security deposits
allocate the responsibility and cost of fixing up your space
avoid costly code compliance and clean-ups, and
save your lease if you can’t live up to it now and then.
The 4th edition provides the latest strategies for working with brokers and lawyers.
Review
Educate yourself about negotiating a lease through a book like [Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business ]."
San Francisco Chronicle
"Shows you how to rewrite the boilerplate you're presented with to get the most flexibility at the lowest cost." Accounting Today
"Relatively few books exist on negotiating commercial leases, and most only skim the process.... all advice and strategies needed to evaluate a commercial space and obtain a good lease is standard in Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business." Bookwatch
"A fine book on leasing... Portman and Steingold have crafted a dandy book for the aspiring entrepreneur as well as a valuable reference book for the seasoned businessperson." Sacramento Business Journal
"Portman, an author, attorney, and specialist in landlord-tenant law, explains how businesses can negotiate leases. She describes deciding on the type of space most appropriate for a business, including looking for space, evaluating it and the landlord, understanding the true size and cost of the rental, preparing to negotiate, and negotiation strategy, and common lease terms, such as length, rent, security deposits, improvements and alterations, maintenance, utilities, code compliance, parking, signs, landlord entry, security, option to renew or sublet, insurance claims, breaking the lease, disputes, attorney fees, foreclosures, condemnations, and guarantors. This edition includes new strategies or working with brokers and lawyers." Eithne O'Leyne, EditorRinggold, Inc., ProtoView
About the Author
Nolo's Executive Editor,
Janet Portman oversees editorial work on all Nolo books, articles, and websites. She specializes in residential and commercial landlord/tenant law, legal issues related to courts, and criminal law. She is the author or a coauthor of
Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants, First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-Family Home, Every Tenant's Legal Guide, Renters' Rights, Leases & Rental Agreements, The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights and Responsibilities, and
California Tenants' Rights. Portman received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and a law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. Before joining Nolo in 1994, she practiced law as a public defender.