Asked by Anonymous
As a landload, we rented our retail lot to a developer of a shopping mall who then sub-let to a tenant. Bothe parties signed a tenancy agreement. After the expiry of the tenancy agreement, the developer didn't surrendered the property back to our company and its tenant was still occupaying the retail lot until we raised our protest/complaint. To make thing easy and to minimise inconveniences, we signed a fresh tenancy agreement with the same tenant of which the developer had ended the tenancy. In other words, we just "inherrited" the tenant from the developer and agreed to lease our retail lot to the same tenant to continue his business. Few months later, we received a letter from the developer that we had to pay them one-month rental as admin fee saying that it was a market practice by leasing company or agent.
Our question is this so-called admin fee had never been made known to us upfront and in black & white. Never mintioned in our tenancy agreement signed between the developer and our company. We think this collection of one-month rental as admin fee is very unfair and resonable. We have therefore disputed but the developer insisted that we must pay. What is your take?
Our question is this so-called admin fee had never been made known to us upfront and in black & white. Never mintioned in our tenancy agreement signed between the developer and our company. We think this collection of one-month rental as admin fee is very unfair and resonable. We have therefore disputed but the developer insisted that we must pay. What is your take?
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