Real Estate Investing : Graduated Lease

February 27, 2010 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

New business start-ups need at least a few months to stabilize and it could take a few months before a break-even point occurs. To help such businesses as well as to counter he slack in rentals, commercial, industrial property owners have designed a lease called the graduated lease to entice new tenants. In a graduated lease, the lease amount is low for the initial couple of years and gradually increased proportionally the next three years in a typical five-year contract. This strategy worked so well that people have applied graduated lease to residential property too.

Graduated Lease: How does it Work? Let us say there is a person x who leases a commercial space using a graduated lease for a period of five years. The lease includes the maintenance, taxes, insurance, utilities and janitorial services charges. His office space is 2,000 squares in a 30,000 square building. He pays $20 for each square foot so his yearly base rent will be $40,000 and for fiver years $200,000. In a graduated lease he can pay $2,500 each month for the first year {$30,000}, $3000 each month for the second year {36,000} and $ 3,500 each month for the third year {42,000} and $ 3,833.3 each month for the next two years {$91,999.9}. The low monthly rental for the first three years gives X the chance to utilize the money to develop his business and stabilize financially, hence a graduated lease will work to the advantage of the lessee.

Lessees who lease commercial and industrial properties therefore prefer this kind of lease. Usually, graduated leases are offered at a flat rate for the first two years, and gradually increased as per the lease term typically five years. Lessees can negotiate to get as low an escalation cap as possible for each additional year. The lessee should make sure he understands the terms of the contract properly and that he is not paying rent for space he does not use such as a foyer or lobby to which he has no access as it is on another floor. The landlord has to ascertain that the lessee has no deceitful intent and has no record of fraud or history of delinquent rental payment. The lessee should not cause damage and or repair to the property and abscond without a trace, leaving the landlord in a lurch. It is therefore necessary for both parties to hire an experienced attorney and see to it that they are not being cheated, by carefully verifying the due-diligence and all documents presented.

Graduated leases are helpful for new entrepreneurs who can use the money saved on the first few years of the lease to build and establish their business.

There are firms that offer services and products to help new entrepreneurs run a successful business.

Alexander Gordon is a writer for http://www.smallbusinessconsulting.com - The Small Business Consulting Community. Sign-up for the free success steps newsletter and get our booklet valued at $24.95 for free as a special bonus. The newsletter provides daily strategies on starting and significantly growing a business.

Business Owners all across the country are joining “The Community of Small Business Owners? to receive and provide strategies, insight, tips, support and more on starting, managing, growing, and selling their businesses. As a member, you will have access to true Millionaire Business Owners who will provide strategies and tips from their real-life experiences.

Real Estate Investing : Graduated Lease

February 13, 2010 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

New business start-ups need at least a few months to stabilize and it could take a few months before a break-even point occurs. To help such businesses as well as to counter he slack in rentals, commercial, industrial property owners have designed a lease called the graduated lease to entice new tenants. In a graduated lease, the lease amount is low for the initial couple of years and gradually increased proportionally the next three years in a typical five-year contract. This strategy worked so well that people have applied graduated lease to residential property too.

Graduated Lease: How does it Work? Let us say there is a person x who leases a commercial space using a graduated lease for a period of five years. The lease includes the maintenance, taxes, insurance, utilities and janitorial services charges. His office space is 2,000 squares in a 30,000 square building. He pays $20 for each square foot so his yearly base rent will be $40,000 and for fiver years $200,000. In a graduated lease he can pay $2,500 each month for the first year {$30,000}, $3000 each month for the second year {36,000} and $ 3,500 each month for the third year {42,000} and $ 3,833.3 each month for the next two years {$91,999.9}. The low monthly rental for the first three years gives X the chance to utilize the money to develop his business and stabilize financially, hence a graduated lease will work to the advantage of the lessee.

Lessees who lease commercial and industrial properties therefore prefer this kind of lease. Usually, graduated leases are offered at a flat rate for the first two years, and gradually increased as per the lease term typically five years. Lessees can negotiate to get as low an escalation cap as possible for each additional year. The lessee should make sure he understands the terms of the contract properly and that he is not paying rent for space he does not use such as a foyer or lobby to which he has no access as it is on another floor. The landlord has to ascertain that the lessee has no deceitful intent and has no record of fraud or history of delinquent rental payment. The lessee should not cause damage and or repair to the property and abscond without a trace, leaving the landlord in a lurch. It is therefore necessary for both parties to hire an experienced attorney and see to it that they are not being cheated, by carefully verifying the due-diligence and all documents presented.

Graduated leases are helpful for new entrepreneurs who can use the money saved on the first few years of the lease to build and establish their business.

There are firms that offer services and products to help new entrepreneurs run a successful business.

Alexander Gordon is a writer for http://www.smallbusinessconsulting.com - The Small Business Consulting Community. Sign-up for the free success steps newsletter and get our booklet valued at $24.95 for free as a special bonus. The newsletter provides daily strategies on starting and significantly growing a business.

Business Owners all across the country are joining “The Community of Small Business Owners? to receive and provide strategies, insight, tips, support and more on starting, managing, growing, and selling their businesses. As a member, you will have access to true Millionaire Business Owners who will provide strategies and tips from their real-life experiences.

Real Estate Investing: Triple Net Lease

September 18, 2009 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

A net lease refers to a lease agreement where the lessee is responsible for paying the property taxes, maintenance, insurance, for the utilities and for the janitorial services. Of the net leases, the most common type is a triple net lease.

Triple Net Lease or NNN Lease: A triple net is also known as a NNN lease. As per a triple net lease, the tenants are responsible for operating and maintaining the property as well as the common area maintenance, which will be divided among the tenants in proportion to the area they rent. The landlord is responsible only for the structural integrity of the building. The tenant pays the landlord a base monthly rent and is responsible for the maintenance and the operational costs of all utilities as well as that of the property. The tenant has a few legal defenses to relieve him of his responsibility while using a triple net lease.

Absolute Triple Net Lease: It is also referred to as a bond lease. It is similar to a NNN lease, but differs in that the tenant has no legal defenses if he fails to meet his responsibility of paying the maintenance and operational costs, property taxes and insurance, utility and janitorial expenses etc.

Investors dealing in commercial real estate look out for multi-tenant properties that have triple net leases, as all they have to do is deal with how to invest the rent paid by the tenants. They like properties with triple net leases as they are not bothered by management obligations and have an assured income. On finding such a property, they have to take extra care with the due-diligence and study every document relating to the building as well as study the lease agreement in detail seeking the counsel of an experienced attorney.

Triple net leases have to be carefully drafted to compensate for inflation as well as tax increases, which could influence the rent and thereby affect the lease. The landlord should be very careful in selecting tenants by checking their credit worthiness, the type of business they do and how it will have a positive or negative impact on the property has to be analyzed carefully. If an investor is buying a property with a triple net lease tenant or tenant, the lease agreement has to be carefully scrutinized and the lease term has to be checked, and then carefully reviewed to see if the existing tenants would agree to an increase in the base rent as well as check the credit worthiness of the tenants. It is an investors dream to land a multi-tenant commercial property with a true triple net lease but they are a rarity.

There are firms that offer services and products to help new businesses succeed.

Alexander Gordon is a writer for http://www.smallbusinessconsulting.com - The Small Business Consulting Community. Sign-up for the free success steps newsletter and get our booklet valued at $24.95 for free as a special bonus. The newsletter provides daily strategies on starting and significantly growing a business.

Business Owners all across the country are joining “The Community of Small Business Owners? to receive and provide strategies, insight, tips, support and more on starting, managing, growing, and selling their businesses. As a member, you will have access to true Millionaire Business Owners who will provide strategies and tips from their real-life experiences.

Real Estate Investing : Graduated Lease

June 13, 2009 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

New business start-ups need at least a few months to stabilize and it could take a few months before a break-even point occurs. To help such businesses as well as to counter he slack in rentals, commercial, industrial property owners have designed a lease called the graduated lease to entice new tenants. In a graduated lease, the lease amount is low for the initial couple of years and gradually increased proportionally the next three years in a typical five-year contract. This strategy worked so well that people have applied graduated lease to residential property too.

Graduated Lease: How does it Work? Let us say there is a person x who leases a commercial space using a graduated lease for a period of five years. The lease includes the maintenance, taxes, insurance, utilities and janitorial services charges. His office space is 2,000 squares in a 30,000 square building. He pays $20 for each square foot so his yearly base rent will be $40,000 and for fiver years $200,000. In a graduated lease he can pay $2,500 each month for the first year {$30,000}, $3000 each month for the second year {36,000} and $ 3,500 each month for the third year {42,000} and $ 3,833.3 each month for the next two years {$91,999.9}. The low monthly rental for the first three years gives X the chance to utilize the money to develop his business and stabilize financially, hence a graduated lease will work to the advantage of the lessee.

Lessees who lease commercial and industrial properties therefore prefer this kind of lease. Usually, graduated leases are offered at a flat rate for the first two years, and gradually increased as per the lease term typically five years. Lessees can negotiate to get as low an escalation cap as possible for each additional year. The lessee should make sure he understands the terms of the contract properly and that he is not paying rent for space he does not use such as a foyer or lobby to which he has no access as it is on another floor. The landlord has to ascertain that the lessee has no deceitful intent and has no record of fraud or history of delinquent rental payment. The lessee should not cause damage and or repair to the property and abscond without a trace, leaving the landlord in a lurch. It is therefore necessary for both parties to hire an experienced attorney and see to it that they are not being cheated, by carefully verifying the due-diligence and all documents presented.

Graduated leases are helpful for new entrepreneurs who can use the money saved on the first few years of the lease to build and establish their business.

There are firms that offer services and products to help new entrepreneurs run a successful business.

Alexander Gordon is a writer for http://www.smallbusinessconsulting.com - The Small Business Consulting Community. Sign-up for the free success steps newsletter and get our booklet valued at $24.95 for free as a special bonus. The newsletter provides daily strategies on starting and significantly growing a business.

Business Owners all across the country are joining “The Community of Small Business Owners? to receive and provide strategies, insight, tips, support and more on starting, managing, growing, and selling their businesses. As a member, you will have access to true Millionaire Business Owners who will provide strategies and tips from their real-life experiences.

Real Estate Investing : Graduated Lease

April 23, 2009 by Kenny Santos  
Filed under Real Estate Investing

New business start-ups need at least a few months to stabilize and it could take a few months before a break-even point occurs. To help such businesses as well as to counter he slack in rentals, commercial, industrial property owners have designed a lease called the graduated lease to entice new tenants. In a graduated lease, the lease amount is low for the initial couple of years and gradually increased proportionally the next three years in a typical five-year contract. This strategy worked so well that people have applied graduated lease to residential property too.

Graduated Lease: How does it Work? Let us say there is a person x who leases a commercial space using a graduated lease for a period of five years. The lease includes the maintenance, taxes, insurance, utilities and janitorial services charges. His office space is 2,000 squares in a 30,000 square building. He pays $20 for each square foot so his yearly base rent will be $40,000 and for fiver years $200,000. In a graduated lease he can pay $2,500 each month for the first year {$30,000}, $3000 each month for the second year {36,000} and $ 3,500 each month for the third year {42,000} and $ 3,833.3 each month for the next two years {$91,999.9}. The low monthly rental for the first three years gives X the chance to utilize the money to develop his business and stabilize financially, hence a graduated lease will work to the advantage of the lessee.

Lessees who lease commercial and industrial properties therefore prefer this kind of lease. Usually, graduated leases are offered at a flat rate for the first two years, and gradually increased as per the lease term typically five years. Lessees can negotiate to get as low an escalation cap as possible for each additional year. The lessee should make sure he understands the terms of the contract properly and that he is not paying rent for space he does not use such as a foyer or lobby to which he has no access as it is on another floor. The landlord has to ascertain that the lessee has no deceitful intent and has no record of fraud or history of delinquent rental payment. The lessee should not cause damage and or repair to the property and abscond without a trace, leaving the landlord in a lurch. It is therefore necessary for both parties to hire an experienced attorney and see to it that they are not being cheated, by carefully verifying the due-diligence and all documents presented.

Graduated leases are helpful for new entrepreneurs who can use the money saved on the first few years of the lease to build and establish their business.

There are firms that offer services and products to help new entrepreneurs run a successful business.

Alexander Gordon is a writer for http://www.smallbusinessconsulting.com - The Small Business Consulting Community. Sign-up for the free success steps newsletter and get our booklet valued at $24.95 for free as a special bonus. The newsletter provides daily strategies on starting and significantly growing a business.

Business Owners all across the country are joining “The Community of Small Business Owners? to receive and provide strategies, insight, tips, support and more on starting, managing, growing, and selling their businesses. As a member, you will have access to true Millionaire Business Owners who will provide strategies and tips from their real-life experiences.