Pennsylvania Commercial Real Estate Legal Questions

There is no law requiring a spouse to sign a lease of any kind.  This may be required by the landlord as a condition to agreeing to lease the property.  That's entirely appropriate and quite common.  I'm not saying its either fair or adviseable.  if you won't sign, the landlord might simply decide to not lease the property.  The proposed tenant can try to offer the landlord some other type of "security" such as pre-payment for some portion of the lease, a pledge of other assets, etc. ... Read More

I think the first step here is to review your lease and see what it says about the situation.  You should certainly send a written demand to the landlord detailing what you left on premises, demand that the LL safe keep it and demand that you be able to recover it by a certain date.  How much is the stuff worth?  You have to weigh the costs of a legal proceeding vs. value of the items to decide if they're worth pursuing. ... Read More

If this is your attorney, its certainly a reasonable request.  If this charge for an opposing party's attorney and is something you are being asked to pay as part of a contractual provision of some kind, you can certainly ask for details but I suspect you won't get a substantive response because the attorney will say that to do so would require releaving confidential information protected by the attorney client privilege.  But there's no harm in asking.  You could have another attorney review it and see if the time billed appears to be too much for the likely services.  For example if the charge was for preparing a letter enclosing a copy of a pleadiing of some kind and the charge was for one hour, that would look fishy to me.... Read More