Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia

commercial lease

Hi, I am about to sign a commercial lease. The 3rd one for me, and this time I am relocating 1 of my 2 businesses. My concern is that there is a clause placed in the lease that states specifically that there is to be NO loitering outside of the store front and that 3 writen warnings will be given for any violation of this and at the time of the 3rd I will be given 15 days to vacate. Now, having said that...I can only have so much control over this. I can post signs, ask folks politely to not linger about and hope for the best. However the proposed landlord says that I must control this as it will not be tolerated. I feel that I can only do my best to fulfill these wishes and that 15 days to vacate is very unreasonable, as I can not posibly relocate a business in that amount of time. Do you feel that this is unreasonable? This is the 1st time that something like this has ever come up in a lease for me.


Asked on 8/20/07, 10:45 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: commercial lease

As I answered previously, I would not agree to this provision (if I were you) in your commercial lease since it burdens you with controlling a condition over which you would have only very limited power--and if you failed to do so, you could face almost immediate eviction from your rented store premises.

This is simply not reasonable.

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Answered on 8/23/07, 7:18 pm


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