[WSBARP] Contracting Around Landlord Tenant Law

[Jeff Davis]

Listmates:

 

Commercial Lease.  It contains a remedies provision when Tenant defaults
that allows for a non-judicial termination of the lease on ten days' notice.
The clause specifically states "No judicial action is required to terminate
the lease pursuant to this paragraph."  

 

The lease, by its terms, ends June 30, 2021. The tenant closed its business
over a year ago yet still stores things in the unit; rent has been paid,
sporadically, but usually only after a letter from me.  Client wants to
invoke the 10 day termination clause.  To what extent are parties to a
commercial lease allowed to contract around the landlord tenant law?  Here
Landlord would be using the 10 termination clause to shorten the contract
term and forego any unlawful detainer action to judicially terminate the
lease.

 

Your thoughts!

 

Jeff Davis

 

W. Jeff Davis, Esq.

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