"The majority of the time the property owner will remove the equipment and those costs become part of the default," Jason Kaiser, a senior office broker in the Orlando office of Trammell Crow Co., tells GlobeSt.com. "It should not be this way, but typically it is the way it ends up."
Kaiser says "there are a few cases in which independent contractors will install the equipment for the tenant, and if receipt of services is owed after the tenant defaults, then the contractors will file a lien against the building" to make sure he gets paid.
Some property owners are lax in checking out a rooftop tenant's creditworthiness because of the perception that a telecom company's equipment does no daily wear and tear to the roof as there might be from humans working in a suite of leased offices below.
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