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Right before christmas, my landlord told me that when my lease was up at the end of the month, that they would not me renewing it, and that I had approx 45 days to be moved out. Apparently one of the big chains, (not gonna say who) wanted my building. Landlord wouldnt even consider letting me match what they were gonna pay, just told me to be out by the first of feb. Felt like I got screwed bigtime because this store has been here for almost 18 years, and in the past 6 years that I owned it, I was never late on rent, or missed any payments.
After the initial panic, we found a place in a strip mall that had just been built about 3 years ago. When I tried to get a building permit to start the remodel, the building inspector told me that for him to approve the permit, I have to have blueprints from an licensed architect showing all diagrams of plumbing, electric, and structural stability of the building, and would have to have them sign off on the blueprints guaranteeing their accuracy. We have a person in our corprate office that does this type of work, and said to do what their asking, would take several months, and approx $10000-$12000 to do. He called the building inspector personally to find out what was needed because he said what he was requiring was way above the norm. I contaced my plumber and electrician, and they said that they have never seen that much requirment to get a building permit. I contacted that landlord to see if they had any old blueprints from an architect showing the structural stability of the mall, and to my surprise the landlord said that they wernt required to have any of that when they got their building permit to build the entire mall. I asked the architect it was normal to have to have a licensed architect do engineering blueprints for electric and plumbing, and he told me that it was pretty much unheard of unless your building something from the ground up. He flat out told me that it sounded like I was getting screwed.
So now Im sitting with a long term lease of 2k per month, no building permit, and starting to run out of money. If I have to wait a few months to get the permit, my funds will eventually start drying up and I wont be able to finish the remodel. As much as I hate to go this route, im considering hireing an attorney to sue the city. Not sure what I could sue for, but something is definatly not right with the situation.
Did I mention that I did try to talk to the city mayor about this and he told me he would “look into it” and had me shooshed out of his office in under one minute after I called and scheduled an appointment with him?
What you you folks do in my shoes?
After the initial panic, we found a place in a strip mall that had just been built about 3 years ago. When I tried to get a building permit to start the remodel, the building inspector told me that for him to approve the permit, I have to have blueprints from an licensed architect showing all diagrams of plumbing, electric, and structural stability of the building, and would have to have them sign off on the blueprints guaranteeing their accuracy. We have a person in our corprate office that does this type of work, and said to do what their asking, would take several months, and approx $10000-$12000 to do. He called the building inspector personally to find out what was needed because he said what he was requiring was way above the norm. I contaced my plumber and electrician, and they said that they have never seen that much requirment to get a building permit. I contacted that landlord to see if they had any old blueprints from an architect showing the structural stability of the mall, and to my surprise the landlord said that they wernt required to have any of that when they got their building permit to build the entire mall. I asked the architect it was normal to have to have a licensed architect do engineering blueprints for electric and plumbing, and he told me that it was pretty much unheard of unless your building something from the ground up. He flat out told me that it sounded like I was getting screwed.
So now Im sitting with a long term lease of 2k per month, no building permit, and starting to run out of money. If I have to wait a few months to get the permit, my funds will eventually start drying up and I wont be able to finish the remodel. As much as I hate to go this route, im considering hireing an attorney to sue the city. Not sure what I could sue for, but something is definatly not right with the situation.
Did I mention that I did try to talk to the city mayor about this and he told me he would “look into it” and had me shooshed out of his office in under one minute after I called and scheduled an appointment with him?
What you you folks do in my shoes?
