Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and educator with over 35 years of diverse financial management experience. He is an expert on personal finance, corporate finance ...

Business news programs, real-time financial market coverage, and newspaper articles are replete with stories of tenants shuttering stores and being unable to pay rent under their leases. Commercial ...

As a landlord, I often field questions from tenants whose life plans don't fit neatly into 12-month leasing cycles. The tenant might be in town for a six-month internship or a nine-month certificate ...

For many entrepreneurs signing a lease seems like renting an apartment – a Tennant/Lessee agrees to pay a certain fee to Lessor/Agent per month. Right? Nothing could be further from the truth. The ...

Today, we begin to examine the nature and characteristics of landlord and tenant agreements, also called lease agreements, tenancy agreements, leases, or just agreements. As explained in a previous ...

A lease swap is a process by which the person who controls a lease on a vehicle transfers it to another person under the same conditions as the original lease agreement. Car leasing is one of the most ...

Last week, Tom O’Brien wrote about six important issues to consider when negotiating your first commercial lease. This week we’ll go into a bit more detail on commercial lease agreements, setting out ...