Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California
Commercial tenant having problem with landlord about sign
I am a tenant in a General Net Lease for over a year now. My business is
tattoo. The landlord (plaza owner) is giving us problems about our sign. He
said he doesn't want a tattoo shop in the plaza and we have to remove the
word ''Tattoo'' from our sign. We've tried negotiating to make the word tattoo
smaller, but he said no. His property manager said that he has the right to
do this because the contract states: ''If otherwise permitted by law, Lessee
may at Lessee's expense, erect a sigh or signs approved in advance by the
City and the Lessor, designating the names and type of business conducted
on the Premises.'' We are a small business and really need to have ''tattoo'' on
the sign so people know what our business is. We are in renewal with them
for 3 more years, but the property manager said they will let us leave any
time - we don't have a space to go to yet. Also, our contract was signed with
the property management company as a sublease of their sectioned-off
space, but our lease doesn't state it's a sublease and we were never told so.
We barely found our a couple of months ago when we started having
problems with them. What are our rights with the sign?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Commercial tenant having problem with landlord about sign
Is there a law that says you can't put ''tattoo'' on a sign? If you are under contract and the sign was existing at the time of the contract, your landlord cannot do much to alter your sign during the term of the lease. I do not quite understand the rest of your facts.
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