

Drafting Purchase Contracts: Make Sure Your Due Diligence Period Is Long Enough
A good purchase and sale contract is like a road map for the real estate transaction. It will articulate the business terms clearly and...


Leasing 101, Part 8: Opportunity and Disaster in Assignments and Subleases
An assignment and sublease provision rarely has an immediate impact on a tenant at the time it signs its lease. As a result, tenants...


Outdoor Retail Tenants: 10 Things To Know About Your Lease
I spoke at the Outdoor Retailer Summer and Winter Markets in Salt Lake City in 2010 and 2013 and know about the unique store concerns...


Leasing 101, Part 7: Nine Tips for Negotiating Additional Rent
In a lease, 'additional rent' generally is defined as any amount due to landlord by tenant over and above base rent. Depending on the...


Leasing 101, Part 6: Base Rent
There are three main types of rent in leases: base rent, additional rent, and percentage rent. Additional rent and percentage rent are...


A Yankee’s Impression: Southern Hunting Plantation Best Practices
I have had the opportunity over the past several years to visit a few classic Southern hunting plantations. With a suburban Chicago...


Enhancing the True Value of Land – Water Resources
The following comes from Field Sport Concepts affiliate Trout Headwaters, Inc. and follows up on Field Sports' recent blog posts here:...