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    HELP! - Landlord harassment

    Hi folks We've been advised that they cannot just "throw us out". Also in Scottish tort law there is the law of delict. They knew that there was ingress of water and therefore knew the probability of damage to our premises was not only high but also extremely probable and did nothing within...
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    HELP! - Landlord harassment

    We comply with compulsory insurance liabilities including employers liability law, We are also self insured and made self funded insurance provision for £50 000.00 to cover all losses e.g. in case we had an freak fire etc. We however do not believe we are liable for our own cover because of...
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    HELP! - Landlord harassment

    We have rented a factory premises in Glasgow. We were assured that there was 3 phase electricity available in the unit, prior to renting it. When we took occupation there was no 3 phase electricity in the unit and the landlord promised they would have it put in, but then it took them two months...
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    walking possesion orders - advice needed

    Spongebob, I just love your humour, and could use some of it right now, have a read of our thread - its not that long, but it develops like a book, noone could write and please, please, let us have something funny to think about! The thread involves two quite long posts so if youre in a hurry...
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    Issues with the lease

    The saga continues. After we responded to the landlords letter insisting that we are doing nothing different to before, we have had to involve the police because our neighbour at the Bistro was distressing some of our customers with homophobic behaviour (we are a lesbian couple) and similar...
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    Issues with the lease

    Thanks for the humour, it makes such a difference, especially since all we're doing is trying to make a living!:)
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    Issues with the lease

    Thanks Jules I'll take a careful read of the lease. There is no problem with planning or environmental health. They have been helpful and supportive. We dont serve meals and dont need a Class 3 (Which is a restaurant in Scotland) We are allowed to sell coffee and prepackaged food in a Class 1...
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    Issues with the lease

    Hi Kulture We signed a new lease which is identical to the old one, just with the address of the new premises on.
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    Issues with the lease

    I received a letter today from my landlords agent reminding me that I may only use the premises for the purpose specified in the lease. We are an Art Gallery and Studio. When I originally approached the agent to take a lease, we were required to submit a comprehensive business plan in order to...
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    Music in your shop

    There are a number of things to remember when talking to them. If you only employ a small number of employees and its a small business then you can get them to treat it as such. I know someone who had more than 5 employees and they wanted to charge them a higher rate. They told PRS that two of...
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    shop looks expensive

    True! We discovered this by accident. I have a BIG cute dog (she's a dalmatian - seizure dog) and so many people come in just to have a pat, and then often they buy something or come back having noted we are friendly helpful and have a lot more than the window can possibly show.
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    Difficult Customer - any ideas

    Steve, Care in the community people should be "cared" for that includes supervision. I have a profoundly mentally disabled stepson, he will never be able to work and can be difficult to handle in public, but we care for him, and ensure he does not create a problem when we go into shops, or are...
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    Difficult Customer - any ideas

    Thanks George we also have care in the community folk upstairs, theyre not a problem, but this particular woman......
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    Difficult Customer - any ideas

    She is supposed to be agoraphobic, not able to leave her flat....and apparently has serious respiratory problems, but has been roller skating up and down the street for the last two weeks.
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    Chain stores closing 20 shops a day

    We hit a snag with the rental/letting side though and things like the rates where the council wouldn't accept the risk of having 3/4 companies working from one unit, they wanted one company, one address, one proprietor. We are not looking at sublets, not surprisingly landlords/la's run a mile...
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