A commercial lease is a contract between a landlord and a business to rent commercial real estate for business purposes. Commercial leases are much more complex than residential leases. The provisions and terms within the contract have a significant impact...
Category: Commercial Real Estate
Why Contract Typos and Grammatical Errors Can Spell Disaster
There's nothing better than the moment you come to an agreement with someone to do business together. You do everything you can to make sure the deal goes off without a hitch, including memorializing all of the details in a contract. A contract is the...
Florida Commercial Real Estate
Commercial real estate refers to a building or land designed to generate profit from capital gain or rental income, such as a storefront, apartment complex, office building, mall, etc.
Commercial real estate transactions can be must more complicated than residential...
Short-Term Lease Agreements
What Is a Short-Term Lease?
Short-term leases and rental agreements are usually less than six months and run on a month-to-month contract. A month-to-month rental agreement may or may not be renewed at the end of each month. Sometimes, renters will even...
Hire licensed contractors
With a shortage of contractors and lots of repairs after Irma, it may be tempting to hire whoever you can find to fix your house. However, be aware of scammers posed as licensed contractors willing to do repairs and construction. The elderly are more prone to these...
Climate Change & Miami Real Estate
Regardless of its causes, climate change poses real problems for Florida businesses. When it comes to sea level rise, Miami is the 9th most at-risk city in the world. (Source: OECD)
The cost of keeping the iconic south Florida city above water is expensive. Flood-prone...
What is a property lien?
A property lien is a notice on a property from a creditor claiming the owner of the property owes them money.
If you are the buyer of a house and a title search is not done, or not done correctly, you could end up buying a house with a lien on it. Thus, taking...
Post-hurricane assessment issues
"Hurricane Irma in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida." by Satoshi Kina. Purchased from Fotolia under standard license.
Commercial leases are different than residential agreements. Boyer Law Firm, P.L. handles the leasing, purchases, sales, and disputes that come with commercial...
Rebuilding after Irma & Harvey
Florida is beautiful, but it is also very vulnerable. While we don't have state income tax, it's expensive for Florida businesses and individuals to recover from a natural disaster. Citigroup estimates the economic damage from Hurricane Irma is about $50 billion,...
Can the buyer pick the closing agent?
Although there is no law regarding who picks the closing agent in a Florida real estate transaction, it is customary for the Seller of the property to choose the Florida Closing Agent. It is also customary for the party who chooses the closing agent to pay the...