In most every acquisition of a commercial property, the prospective buyer (and the prospective buyer’s lender) will require that the property’s tenants execute an instrument confirming various terms ...

If you’re a renter of a multifamily property that has recently been sold, you may have been handed an estoppel certificate by your landlord for the first time and asked to sign it. If you’ve never ...

In evaluating the feasibility and profitability of a potential investment, it’s crucial for a prudent buyer to conduct a comprehensive review of all property leases. Such an examination allows the ...

Editor's note: David G. Muller is an attorney with the law firm of Becker & Poliakoff, P.A., which represents community associations throughout Florida, with offices in Naples, Fort Myers and 11 other ...

Although commercial lending requirements have relaxed a bit over the past few years, the most recent banking crisis continues to have a lingering effect on commercial real estate transactions which, ...

This is the final installment highlighting several cases of interest to community associations, including unpublished cases of interest. For a condominium association in a mixed-use property where ...

There were five (5) bills approved this year by the Florida Legislature affecting community associations. As of the writing of this article, only one bill had been signed by the Governor, SB 398, that ...

With props to Rodney Dangerfield, some legal documents just don’t get no respect—or at least are not regarded with the importance deserved. That innocuous looking two-page form that the landlord just ...

Last year, the Florida Legislature introduced a bill to increase the regulations and liabilities for the state’s more than 46,000 community associations for their issuance of estoppel certificates, ...