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Purchasing a commercial building that I currently rent

Posted on 9/12/23 at 9:55 am
Posted by AUjim
America
Member since Dec 2012
3708 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 9:55 am
Is it standard to pay out the remainder of the lease in addition to market value for the building? Mostly seems like nonsense to me, but I could see how someone could justify that ask....
Posted by LSU1018
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2007
7310 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 10:05 am to
No, typically the lease transfers to the new owner. Just bc that new owner is you, you shouldn’t he penalized. It’s all negotiations, if the person wasn’t trying to sell and you talked them into selling, then they may want both.
Posted by kengel2
Team Gun
Member since Mar 2004
32910 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 10:11 am to
quote:

Is it standard to pay out the remainder of the lease in addition to market value for the building? Mostly seems like nonsense to me, but I could see how someone could justify that ask....


Before all the craziness, I know a guy rented a house and then convinced the owners to deduct all the rent he paid from the purchase price of the house. He got a steal.
Posted by Im4datigers
Northern Virginia
Member since Oct 2003
4555 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 10:14 am to
Nope. He’s being greedy. Have never seen this in 25 yrs of CRE. Can’t have his cake and eat it too.
Posted by soupboy10
Member since Feb 2016
76 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 11:14 am to
I agree that seems greedy. Never seen that.
Posted by Jag_Warrior
Virginia
Member since May 2015
4292 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 11:43 am to
quote:

Is it standard to pay out the remainder of the lease in addition to market value for the building?


Having been in real estate for nearly four decades now, I can say that this is anything but standard. It sounds more like a test of how badly do you, as the buyer, want to buy.
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
60794 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 12:37 pm to
quote:

Is it standard to pay out the remainder of the lease in addition to market value for the building?

No, and in fact, throw back at them you want to knock off all the rent you paid and put toward credit of the purchase. See how they respond to that.
Posted by Barry McCockinner
Member since Sep 2018
1292 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 2:40 pm to
Absolutely not standard.
Posted by Santiago_Dunbar
Atlanta, GA
Member since Feb 2021
264 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 3:33 pm to
Is it a single tenant of multi-tenant asset? Either way the guy is being super silly. You don’t get to sell and take the cash flow with you.
He’s just playing games because it’s a user deal
Posted by Tiger Prawn
Member since Dec 2016
23944 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 4:59 pm to
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Is it standard to pay out the remainder of the lease in addition to market value for the building?
WTF?

He's offering to sell you the building, but you still have to pay him rent that would've been due from the sale date through the end of your lease? Thats ridiculous.

He sells it and gets off the hook for the cost of insurance, maintaining the property, property taxes, and interest on any loan he may have had on the property....but still gets to collect the rent for the rest of the lease? Sounds like a steal for him. Get a lump sum purchase price, get rid of all the expenses, but still keep the revenue until the lease expires.
This post was edited on 9/12/23 at 5:01 pm
Posted by jfw3535
South of Bunkie
Member since Mar 2008
5227 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 6:03 pm to
Absolutely fricking not. That's crazy. That would be like buying a commercial building you're not leasing the and current owner saying, but I get all the rent from the existing tenants through the remainder of their existing terms. You would never agree to that, right? What's the difference?
Posted by JohnnyKilroy
Cajun Navy Vice Admiral
Member since Oct 2012
38648 posts
Posted on 9/12/23 at 6:18 pm to
He probably has no interest in selling unless you pay way above market.

I'd probably cut off negotiations if a seller came to me with that bullshite
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