how much does it cost to start and operate a restaurant? leasing? equipment? employees?
I reeeeally want to start a restaurant but dont have any money and need to know how much it costs to retain, upkeep, and operate it. Is it worth it? Is there much of a profit? theres a few restaurants in the are that just went bankrupt and closed which makes me nervous, i would want to make a very good profit and keep the restaurant
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What can I legally do to fight back a commercial landlord who discriminately declines us an option to renew?
My family purchased a Chinese restaurant business in a commercial shopping center about five years ago in California and our five year lease is up in August. The owner of the commercial property has not offered our restaurant business an option to renew our lease. We had already invested a couple of hundred thousand dollars in this business (including expensive computer and kitchen equipment), but as the end of the lease approaches, we’re scared that we can’t even sell the restaurant off even if we wanted to. I have spoken with the Asset Manager of the company that owns the property and he said that he cannot give us a long-term lease but we can pay rent on a month-to-month basis.
When I asked why couldn’t we get a long-term lease renewal, he originally said that they were going to do some remodeling on the entire front building complex (the building’s arcade) after our lease ends sometime while we’re paying rent on a month-to-month basis and then he said that we will need to vacate the premises once construction actually starts (he also said that he was going to give us a 30-day notice to vacate as well). But then I asked if we could get our original business location back after construction has completed… A moment later he said that there’s going to be a "70% chance that there’s going to be investment in the property" so that they can "change up the assortment of tenants on the property" towards a specific marketing concept where there will be select requirements for the new tenants: business income level, type of business, ability to pay higher rent, etc. I don’t exactly know what kind of "marketing concept" he was going for or even if restaurants were a part of that marketing concept equation’s composition.
It’s interesting to note that some of our family business’ neighboring tenants are also of Asian-descent, but they have about two years of their lease left. I just found it odd that they were targeting our mom and pop businesses and slowly try to get us out of the shopping center.
Can this company just kick us out like that? Isn’t there some sort of California Commercial Code that says this illegal? But more specifically (and what my family’s more concerned about), is there any way to make the company help us recoup our losses from having to find another location for our restaurant business?
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Is this criminal? What should I do?
Landlord and myself came to a mutual agreement for us to move out and void the lease. We were in Nevada travelling home at the time. I told them not to go inside our house and that we would start moving out as soon as we got there. We found a Dispossessory notice stuck to our door when we got home. It was already past the date for us to answer. We never recieved the Writ of Possession. My dad died that weekend. My husband went by our place to get a picture of my dad on the day of the funeral. He finds the landlord’s maintence guy boxing up our stuff. So he calls the landlord. She said don’t worry they’ll put it in storage and to go be with our family. Had yet to see a Writ of Possession. A week later when we asked to get our stuff our landlord would not tell us where it was and that we had to pay almost 00 to get it back. They claimed that was their moving fee. They never told us this while they were moving our stuff. We have very expensive computers, furniture with a big screen TV, music equipment, and important documents including military records and my EMT license inside. Also an expensive mattress for a customer we were supposed to deliver in Florida. They have moved it to a different county according to them. They will not let us in to get the documents we need for employment and the mattress. We also have home movies and pictures of my son’s birth and my dad that can never be replaced. This was in March. We have been asking them since then for access and one minute they say okay. The next day they refuse. They did not have any law enforcement there to monitor or do the move. Just them. They’ve threatened to sell our stuff. Total value is between ,000 and ,000. What can we do? We have nothing. Very few clothes also. Our son’s toys are in there too.
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Apartment removing perks/amenities - is there any legal recourse?
I’m renting a supposedly ‘luxury’ apartment (cough). Paying 00 a month for a one bedroom not including any utilities even water, sewer or trash. The apartment was supposed to have a computer room and a game room.. The apartment has only been open about two years and already they’ve taken the pool sticks/pool balls/shuffleboard equipment, etc. from the game room.. Removed 1 of the 4 computers, removed the printer from the computer room, and the internet has not been ‘live’ in the computer room for over a week. Apparently SOME tenants were taking advantage/messing things up, but they have cameras in the public areas and I don’t believe all responsible tenants should be punished! Is there any legal recourse or do tenants have no right to request the return of perks advertised and available when signing the lease. This is in Virginia in Loudoun County. Oh yeah.. and the gate clickers for the parking garage don’t work every month or so.. but I’m not even going to complain about that. I just feel taken advantage of in general because it seems they just keep taking stuff away and I’m already paying an arm and a leg for the SUPPOSED ‘luxury’.
Just to clarify: I’m not trying to sue the apartment or anything.. It’s just annoying that they advertise these things as perks/amenities and then slowly take things away one by one.
I do need to have a look at the lease.
I’m just wondering if I have a right to complain or if I’m in the wrong at getting annoyed by these things.
Yes, I can afford a computer/internet, but it’s nice to be able to go into the business center/meeting room and take my laptop there to ‘escape’ for a little while. No need to be a smart-a**.
I also don’t like being punished, and having all other RESPONSIBLE tenants punished for the actions of a few unsupervised little brats/low-lives/drunkards/whatever who decided to break pool sticks or throw pool balls.. The security cameras are there for a reason and I believe the landlord/managment should have seen who did it and punished them vs. punishing everyone.
It’s also annoying when they say they are ‘working on’ getting something fixed and then days later hav
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