If you are leasing space in a building, there may come a time when you receive a request from your landlord to fill out and sign an estoppel certificate. Estoppel certificates are usually sent to ...

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 ...

Purchasers and lenders in commercial real estate transactions often use estoppel certificates to obtain assurances directly from commercial tenants about the status of that tenant’s lease. The purpose ...

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 ...

This is the final installment highlighting several cases of interest to community associations, including unpublished cases of interest.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 ...

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, ...

In my last blog, I explored the ramifications of Office Depot, Inc. v. The District at Howell Mill, LLC, a recent Georgia Court of Appeals case which clearly illustrates what the word “estoppel” in ...

Q: I recently closed on my condo purchase. I signed a form called an estoppel certificate. The closer didn’t really explain well what it was. What is it that I signed? A: An estoppel certificate is a ...