tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499771778569209667.post5497700871008871790..comments2024-03-26T22:48:55.424-07:00Comments on Flying Totems: A tale of one storefrontBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06590397694589547524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499771778569209667.post-8376903941029384162017-04-29T21:59:54.185-07:002017-04-29T21:59:54.185-07:00That's often a shortsighted way of managing yo...That's often a shortsighted way of managing your property, though. If you raise your rent to a higher rate than the tenant is willing to pay and the site remains vacant for any length of time what you've effectively done is "raise" it to zero. So I don't know, maybe it's a pride thing. The licensing must be quite the hangup, maybe because the franchise hasn't opened in this area before. A cow would be a big thing for the previous tenants to leave behind. Careless!<br /><br />Huh. That condo does not sound as inviting as the developers no doubt hoped it would be. It sounds like there might be some internal dissension among their ranks.<br /><br />Yeah, they say that soy is good for you, but I just can't get into it. Tolerable in small doses. Only the truly brave or depraved can go long without cheese.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590397694589547524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499771778569209667.post-14250485376265057212017-04-21T20:01:31.033-07:002017-04-21T20:01:31.033-07:00Leases for commercial properties are generally lon...Leases for commercial properties are generally longer than those for apartments with 5-10 years being usual. Once one of those end the tendency nowadays is for the landlord to raise the rental price a lot - often enough for the simple reason their taxes have gone up, but also because they see an area like Thayer St. being a valuable address. So it's both need and greed. I doubt the owner of the building had a new tenant lined up and this restaurant might be having licencing problems or goodness knows what. Maybe they found something nasty in there like a dead cow (vegans can be funny about such things). <br /><br />We've noticed similar things around here with storefront businesses. The weirdest one, though, is a newly built condo that's both half empty and non quite finished either - particle board fronts on half the balconies, for instance. <br /><br />I agree with you about veganism. We don't eat much meat either, but I really don't like soy or chia.. and I'd hate going without cheese or yogurt or milk on my cereal.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.com