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Although the commercial real estate market is steadily improving, tenants still are negotiating aggressively for lease terms that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to get before the downturn. During that time, most national tenants—whether or not they were struggling—asked their owners for rent abatements. But some tenants with a lot of clout asked for either a profit-sharing or a percentage ownership agreement—rights that can be much more lucrative.