12/07/2022
In the commercial real estate world, bringing new tenants into your building is both the most exciting and the most frustrating part of managing your investment. Negotiations can string along for months, and the tenant improvement process is full of potential pitfalls.
Often time mistakes are made from the beginning that can be avoided - one of those mistakes is letting the tenant control the build-out.
As a landlord, you always want to maintain control over all of the contractors who will work on your space, and closely manage the work that gets done. If a tenant hires a low-quality contractor to try to stretch their TIA further, they could end up doing poor quality work that impacts the rest of your building. At Culmen, we’ve also seen landlords face problems when third-party architects try to design a space from afar, relying only on floorplans instead of walking through and measuring. Their designs might fit the space on paper, but not in reality. It’s always safer to work with a designer you trust who knows your building.
When you work with a Culmen representative, you gain the benefit of decades of experience bringing new tenants into properties. We’ve seen every kind of pitfall and know how to avoid them and protect your investment