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Real Estate Brokers Are Not in the Tenant Credit Guarantee Business - Part Two

In last week's post, I reviewed a number of issues concerning the transfer of cost and risk from one party to another in business transactions, specifically in commercial real estate deals. That post received a number of interesting comments. There's more to this story. When landlords find prospective tenants...

By Andrew B. Zezas | Updated on September 29, 2009

In last week’s post, I reviewed a number of issues concerning the transfer of cost and risk from one party to another in business transactions, specifically in commercial real estate deals. That post received a number of interesting comments. There’s more to this story.

When landlords find prospective tenants to be unacceptable risks, those landlords should consider the multiple risk mitigation alternatives available to them, including accepting the risks as they are, working with prospective tenants to minimize risk or to enhance the tenants’ creditworthiness, modifying the terms of the transactions to support acceptable risks, or electing not to complete those transactions becuase of the existing of too much risk. 

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