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Landlords Don't Need Tenant Representatives!

Boil them in oil!" "Bring me their heads!" "Hang them from the gallows!" "Don't pay 'em a dime!" Given the often fiery relationships that exist between landlords and tenant real estate advisors, one can envision high-powered landlords sitting behind large desks waiving their cigars and pounding fists...

By Andrew B. Zezas | Updated on February 09, 2010

“Boil them in oil!” “Bring me their heads!” “Hang them from the gallows!” “Don’t pay ‘em a dime!”

Given the often fiery relationships that exist between landlords and tenant real estate advisors, one can envision high-powered landlords sitting behind large desks waiving their cigars and pounding fists in the air, decrying the fate of their arch enemies, those lowly tenant representatives.  While some landlords wish for all tenant representatives to sink to the bottom of the ocean on that same ship where many suggest we should put all the lawyers, the best landlords recognize the value a good tenant representative brings to a lease transaction.  Of course, some landlords, not the best-in-class, prefer to have no one between them and their prey, so they can feast on their opponents and extract maximum benefit on their own behalf.

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