Protect Yourself When Negotiating Access to Premises Clauses

By Mark Morfopoulos, Esq.

Although an owner should rightfully consider its building to be its own, once it signs a lease with a tenant, that tenant has a right to exclusive possession of its space. To ensure that an owner has access to the space after it has given up these possessory rights, the owner should add a provision covering who has what access rights to the leased space.