Hey Beyond,
I'm sure alot of us on here are small business owners. I own a Retail Shop myself.
Here's the problem and I was wondering if anyone has advice for myself. My Bay that I'm renting has been rented to us for two years - however the owner of our Bay has turned out after we signed the contract to be only after the money. There's times he's entered our business without consent to do "repairs" and he's had unattended workers here leaving messes and basically people we cannot trust other than the owner. That and he hands us bills late so they're overdue.
I'm not happy renting this retail space from the owner now as he's turned out to be intolerable, we own a womens clothing store - and he has the tendancy to come in the store, with no warning when we are serving customers and go do whatever he pleases.
Here's the kicker though - I'm locked into this lease based on our contract. However - I believe firmly that the area we are renting was built without the City's consent - to build in a Bay, you have to get City approval, inspections performed and proper documentation - which I know was not done properly. What do you think Beyond?
I know I have an upper hand because I found this out after signing my lease and moving in - because construction continued and I didn't see any City officials come by. Because if this is the case and we do close - I'll be going to recover any lost income and rent that I have paid to him - because if this was known to myself I wouldn't have entered this contract.
Cheers,
Ray