9.17 B. Maintenance

• Jurisdiction: New York

B. Maintenance

In a typical multi-tenant office building, the landlord will be responsible for repairing certain listed items—usually structural elements, the exterior, and parts of the building’s common areas. Your client will be responsible for maintaining and repairing everything in its space.

What happens when something outside the tenant’s space has to be repaired and isn’t among the items that building ownership promised to take care of? Your client may have to pay...