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Resist the temptation to allow a good tenant to stay after the lease expires, without signing a new one. It will become a “tenant-at-will,” giving it a potentially powerful status—even without a lease. A shopping center owner in Georgia was faced with this situation when a tenant-at-will claimed that it did not owe operating costs for the time period that it continued to run its dry cleaning business after the lease had expired.