-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just have one question, and it's mostly for Jay: Can we afford this?
Ron On 2012-10-10 15:40, Justin Lacko wrote: > Hello members, > > I just finished speaking with the landlords, and Jake, the Remco > representative. > > This is what we're looking at for our new lease, should we choose to accept > it: > - Tenant covers gas and electricity; owner provides $1000 annually to > cover public electrical usage > - Revision of 6 month clause to come into effect only for the purpose > of the building going Red River/similar-type owner (wording still > being revised by landlord) > - 5 year lease > - Base rent stays at $1500 > > This is less than we hoped for upon negotiation as a group, but it's > the best I could do, as the representative of SkullSpace - I got our > point across that we have very little surplus monthy to afford more. > We must understand that we're getting the floor for ~$2.00/sq. ft. - > which is far less than anywhere else in this neighbourhood by a > conservative estimate of $3. We pay $18k annually in rent. The > landlord is making absolutely no profit on us - in fact, they're > losing money with the current agreement. They just want us to pay our > own electrical and stop losing money - they will be breaking even this > way. This is about as fair as it gets. The $1500 we pay covers the > insurance and taxes and water. Talk about upgrading the windows and > such did occur, but it would happen at the cost of raising the rent > substantially (think double) so the landlord could recoup the cost > over time. Electrical metering is still being discussed but it seems > that given that the landlord will offset the cost of public services > with a $1k subsidy, they may just leave it as-is, and then breakout > metering of SkullSpace and AssentWorks will have to be done (Mike > Legary and I are in discussion about how we're going to work this). > > The tough part that I need to clarify with Remco is that the landlord > wants us to pay our previous couple of electrical bills - note that > this is a separate issue from the lease and does not affect if we sign > it or not, so please treat it separately. > > Guys, I can't stress enough that there's no room for negotiation here > any further concerning our lease. Either we accept this or we walk... > I can guarantee you that you won't find a deal like this anywhere - > you simply won't. > > Therefore I am proposing that we sign the lease once it has been > drafted and accurately reflects what I have outlined above. > AssentWorks is already on-board and will sign the lease. > > Please indicate your support by responding with a yea or a nay for > supporting this. > > I will answer questions of clarification but will not respond any > further to asking for more concessions in the lease or responses to > rants about how the landlord is bad because of this or that. > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlB132QACgkQ2t2zxlt4g/SIGACdG5Jr0nIRPOlMx8UBwzbBrD9b k3gAniZhAHKaAy0CitkP/nHYwyXc9kjJ =SiGe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
