With Americans buying less, many chains are asking mall owners for rent reductions, and are sometimes receiving them.
Focus, which has 184 outlets, sent letters to landlords asking for rent reductions and monthly rent payments across its portfolio to ease cashflow.
Likewise, the plan to tackle housing costs is weak and piecemeal; the housing benefit cap is to be left in place; local authorities get new, non-specific powers to lobby for rent reductions on behalf of their constituents.
Mr. Thompson, referring to a plan for rent reductions, also said that the city should not be paying each team $5 million a year for the next five years to cover planning costs, expenses that he said would not have to be approved by the city in advance.
According to the complaint, Mr. Barnason, who had been convicted of molesting or raping three girls and a woman in Suffolk County, would try to enter women's apartments while drunk and demand sex, engage in "unwelcome groping and fondling" and demand sexual favors in return for rent reductions.
A good strategy for healthy businesses looking for rent reductions is to pursue a lease extension, says RCA's Friedman.
How do I know if my apartment is eligible for a rent reduction?
She wrote her landlord asking for a rent reduction of almost $400.
Yesterday I related how traders from Leeds's historic market are calling for a rent reduction and more say in how the market is run.
This appears to be a very unreasonable situation, and I would like to file for a rent reduction because of diminished services.
