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Understanding Operating Expenses and CAPS
What are operating expenses? “Operating Expenses” mean all costs and expenses of every kind and nature owning, operating, managing, repairing, insuring, securing and maintaining the Center, the Common Areas and other portions of the Center include, but not limited to...

Do I Need to Engage an Attorney for Assistance with Commercial Retail Lease Issues?
Retail leases can be very daunting to a non-professional or anyone who is not interested in reading 50 pages of legal jargon. Lease issues are governed by a very specific, dynamic and complex area of real estate law. Oftentimes, the review and analysis or lease issues...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 469
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 469 on June 27, 2020. A change welcomed by Florida landlords, it removes the requirement under Section 689.01 of the Florida Statutes that a landlord must have two witnesses when signing a lease for a term of more than one year. HB...

The Supreme Court’s about LGBTQ employees.
On June 15, 2020 in the consolidated cases R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Altitude Express v. Zarda, and Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved once and for all a split among federal...

CORRECTING THE FTC’S AUTHORITY TO COLLECT MONETARY RELIEF UNDER SECTION 13(B)
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in March 2020 in Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission and should issue a decision soon sometime in June. Assuming that the Court rules against the SEC, the impact would curtail or severely disrupt (fingers crossed) the...

Terms and Conditions – On Point Global Websites
Terms and Conditions on every On Point Global website serve as the agreement between the website owner and the visitors to, and customers of, the site. The typical sections included in the Terms and Conditions: a) describe the website, and its services, benefits and...