What if You’re Unlawfully Locked Out of the Office?

By Christopher Combs | April 24, 2022

Question: We lease office space in a Peoria office building for our insurance business. Under our lease we have five business days to pay our monthly lease payment. After five calendar days (including a weekend), but only three business days, the property manager “locked us out” of our office space because she has always wanted to…

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Commercial Tenant Locked Out When Current on Rent

By Christopher Combs | January 30, 2017

Commercial Tenant “Locked Out” When Current on Rent  Question: My sister has owned a dress shop in a major Phoenix shopping center for twelve years. Last year she was $50,000 delinquent in her rent, primarily because of an increase in the annual common area maintenance (“CAM”) charges due to a large increase in real property…

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