ORLANDO--What legal complications can green leases most commonly cause? That's a good question for Brandon Robinson, an energy attorney with Balsh & Bingham.

If you missed our past stories on green office leasing you can still read them: Should You Sign a Green Lease and Do Landlords Have to Go Green?

As Robinson sees it, one of the most common causes of complications with green leases are two-fold: a failure to clearly think through the allocation of risks and benefits on the front end and to articulate such allocation in the lease agreement or failure to understand or appreciate the consequences of the obligations incurred in the agreement. Because of this, he says, several legal complications can commonly arise. A few are included below:

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