See below the marked up page from a landlord's draft lease -- CTRR identifies hidden costs, vague landlord performance standards, unnecessary  restrictions on tenant flexibility, inadequate sublease rights, weak audit rights and other bad terms which must be negotiated aggressively.  

     Serving tenants exclusively, Commercial Tenant Real Estate Representation Ltd. has handled transactions involving over 10 million square feet of space and $3 billion of obligations.  

     CTRR has cut occupancy costs and protected the long term interests of AT&T, IBM, Turner Broadcasting, Reuters, United Parcel Service, Canadian Imperial Bank, Nomura Securities, Mutual of America, Oppenheimer, RJR/Nabisco, Cox Broadcasting, the State of New York and three of America's biggest law firms, among other clients. 

     CTRR is the only tenant representative which both negotiates leases and audits landlord billings.  This means inspecting landlord general ledgers, invoice files and vendor contracts.  The CTRR team sees which landlords honor or evade lease terms.  Consequently, the CTRR team knows how tenants must be protected in a lease negotiation.

     Unique among commercial real estate brokerage firms, CTRR brings to bear all 8 kinds of expertise needed to protect tenants: (1) expertise in real estate markets, (2) expertise in building operations, (3) expertise in real estate law, (4) expertise in real estate taxes, (5) expertise in landlord accounting practices, (6) expertise in lease negotiations, (7) expertise monitoring tenant buildout and, when necessary, (8) expertise managing real estate arbitration and litigation.

     CTRR has saved tenants over $100 million while negotiating with the biggest landlords and landlord brokers in the country, including Met Life, Prudential, Equitable, Sumitomo Realty, Trammell Crow, Tishman Speyer, Shorenstein, Williams, Helmsley, Newmark, Cushman & Wakefield, Insignia/ESG, CB Richard Ellis and (in their heyday) Olympia & York and the Hunt brothers.

     CTRR has served tenants in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. as well as New York.

     CTRR has handled the entire range of real estate transactions such as site searches, lease negotiations, buyouts, subleases, build-to-suits and financings.

     CTRR was started in 1989. The firm's president, Marisa Manley, was trained at as an architect at Cornell University and as an attorney at Harvard Law School. She began her career at IBM and represented the company's real estate interests in two-thirds of the United States.

     Ms. Manley’s articles about commercial real estate have appeared in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Inc., Commercial Property News and Real Estate Weekly.

     To discuss your company's real estate situation in confidence, without obligation, contact:

Marisa Manley
President
CTRR Ltd.

CTRR identifies hidden costs and other  lease problems because we represent commercial tenants exclusively, and our team has all the expertise needed to protect tenants.  By contrast, it's unheard of for a landlord broker to mark-up a landlord's lease since a reputation for protecting tenants would make it more difficult for a landlord broker to get lucrative landlord business.

     See how CTRR better protects tenants than other tenant representatives, landlord brokers, lawyers and investment bankers.

See examples of how CTRR
marks up landlord leases to identify hidden costs & other issues for tenants

See how CTRR has saved commercial tenants over
$100 million.

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CTRR serves commercial tenants exclusively nation-wide,
providing real estate brokerage & consulting services 
to help cut occupancy costs

Commercial Tenant Real Estate Representation Ltd.
12 East 41st Street, New York, NY 10017
Phone (212) 684-4400     Fax (212) 684-4403    
email mmanley@ctrr.net

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