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How To Negotiate A Rent Free Period
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A rent free period is period of time during your lease where you don’t have to pay any rent at all. Although rent free periods usually kick in at the start of the lease, you might find them at other points during the lease term.
When negotiating a rent free period in a commercial lease try to milk the following points as much as you can to get your landlord to offer as large a rent free period as you can get away with.
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- 1) A Juicy Carrot
- 2) Compensation For Disrepair
- 3) Compensation For Breach Of Statutory Regulations
- 4) Compensation For Fit-Out Works
- 5) Compensation For Loss Of Business
- 6) Helping You Get Started
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Get
The bottom line is, if prospective tenants aren’t queuing up to lease the Property you’re interested ask for a rent free period simply as a sweetener to convince you to sign up.
You should be able to appreciate how useful a surveyor or builder can be here, as they will be able to point out all the repair works that will need to be carried out and their cost. This will put you in a much stronger bargaining position when you get back to the Landlord.
Here, you most probably will need specialist advice on what remedial works are needed and their likely cost.
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