Legal Question in Business Law in New York

lease agreement

In our lease agreement with our landlord, there was a stipulation in it that he had three weeks to get the building renovations done and have the building ready for us. He waited three weeks before he even had the contractors start working on the building, then it took an additional seven weeks to complete the work, so we were ten weeks past our intentional opening date. Opening much later then we anticipated has cost us a great deal of money. My question is, can we sue him for the time we were not able to open?


Asked on 6/29/01, 7:28 pm

2 Answers from Attorneys
Robert R. Groezinger GroezingerLaw P.C.

Re: lease agreement

I received your post on 7-2-2001.

It's hard to tell without seeing the actual lease..otherwise, generally,I'd say you could sue...Or why not just negotiate a month or two free rent?

Good Luck

RRG

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Answered on 7/02/01, 2:57 pm
Harold M. Weiner Coles & Weiner, P.C.

Re: lease agreement

Of course you can. But before you do, why not try

asking for an abatement of rent yourself, instead

of escalating to DefCon 5, if you saw the movie?

You can always hire a good lawyer, and I will be

more than happy to take your money, but: that is

the last step, not the first. You have to live

with this Landlord/Tenant relationship for a while,

don't you?

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Answered on 7/02/01, 4:26 pm


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