Lease Disputes Attorney in Houston, Texas
What type of issues arise in commercial lease disputes?
What type of issues arise in commercial lease disputes?
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commercial lease is unlike
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residential leases are not as
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form driven it’s really what the parties
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want to agree to
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sometimes there’s a litigation
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interpreting what the the terms of what
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the parties actually agreed to after the
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fact
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and so we had a lot of commercial lease
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dispute cases some of them
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rise to the level of litigation some of
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those actually go to trial one memorable
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case
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and they involved a commercial lease
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and it was memorable because there was
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no written lease
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my client owned a series of businesses
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but he also owned the land in which
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those businesses operated he sold
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the business subject to being able to
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negotiate
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a lease for the land with the buyer the
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parties were never able to come to an
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agreement
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because they were never able to come to
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an agreement my client offered to
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let the buyer get their money back the
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buyer instead of wanting their money
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back in a walk away
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wanted 150 of what they paid to walk
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away which my client was not going to
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uh to agree to so the parties were at a
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stalemate
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until the buyer got keys to the business
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and started operating on the land that
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my client owned
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and at that point my client hired a
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lawyer to to get the the tenant the
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buyer tenant evicted
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and for whatever reason that eviction
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effort was unsuccessful
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it was unsuccess successful despite the
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fact that the buyer tenant hadn’t paid
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my client
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any amount uh to lease the property we
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got in
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involved probably 10 months into the
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process
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we looked at the the documents looked at
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the facts
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took note of the the material fact that
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there was no written lease
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we gave notice uh because any uh
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verbal lease is only good for a year
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we gave notice uh and got the buyer
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tenant evicted
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and then brought suit on behalf of our
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client for the lease amounts that had
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not been paid
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that case was tried we got a judgment in
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favor of our client for
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the lease amounts that had not been paid
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as well as their
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attorney’s fees
Houston, TX commercial litigation attorney Dwaine Massey talks about the types of issues that arise in commercial lease disputes.
