A St. Paul landlord asked its tobacco shop tenant to move to a bigger vacant unit in the same shopping center. The city denied the new license, because a St. Paul tobacco products shop license attaches to one address, there are fifteen of them citywide, and no new license may issue within 2,640 feet of an establishment that already holds one. Two units in one strip mall are not 2,640 feet apart. The Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed the eviction on 20 July 2026: the force majeure clause extended deadlines rather than excusing performance, impossibility and frustration of purpose are unavailable in an eviction action, and a landlord that spends six months lobbying city hall for its tenant has not breached the duty of good faith.
The 2026 Atlantic season has produced seven named storms and no hurricanes, and more than a billion dollars of damage. A hurricane deductible would not have fired once. A named storm deductible fires on a 45 mph tropical storm, and on a Gulf Coast property it is usually 5 percent of the insured value, which on a mid-sized shopping center is a seven-figure number the insurer never pays. The AIR CRE form then calls the loss an Insured Loss anyway, bills the deductible to the tenants as an operating expense, and caps rent abatement at insurance proceeds that were never released.
The rental of office space exception at 42 CFR 411.357(a) requires the rent to be consistent with fair market value throughout the arrangement, including the holdover. A standard 150 percent holdover clause on 6,000 square feet of medical office space at the national average rent collects about $6,350 a month extra. CMS has said the premium has to be fair market value when the lease expires and for as long as the holdover runs, and that failing to charge a premium the lease requires may itself be a change in the terms and conditions, and may be forgiveness of a debt.
Paragraph 7.1(d) of the AIR CRE net lease sends the HVAC unit to the landlord if the repair costs more than half of a replacement, and leaves the whole bill with the tenant if it costs less. On a $25,000 rooftop unit with 30 months left, a $200 swing in the repair estimate moves about $7,200. The refrigerant inside that estimate is under a shrinking federal production cap and has no published price, and there is no way to retrofit an R-410A unit off R-410A.
Ask the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the October 2025 CPI-U and it returns a dash. The 43-day appropriations lapse killed the collection and BLS said it could not go back for it. Leases that measure rent from October to October now have a base month that does not exist, the index substitution clause most of them contain does not fire, and the derivatives market and BLS's own productivity program filled the hole with two different numbers.
