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Any question or comments you can email or call me at any time. I will get back to you as fast as I can. Thank you and have a nice day!! Ken DeWitt Your Fellow Tech. Guy Phone # : 204-998-3218 Email: kendewitt@y <[email protected]>ftg.ca On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Courtney Lofchick <[email protected]>wrote: > Siu just wants to get an opinion. No one has said anything about suing > anyone. We haven't been locked out. None of us are experts in contract law. > If she wants to pay someone to analyze the documents let her, who knows we > might learn something. It's her money let her do it since she wants to. > Someone should give her the documents. > No one should be saying to not encourage the lawyer option. If we stay, > lawyers will be required to draft up an agreement between us and AW. If we > leave we may need them to draft up a document where all parties acknowledge > that the old lease is no longer in effect. > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Justin Lacko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don't encourage the lawyer option... >> >> On 25 October 2012 17:01, Mark Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 10/25/12 15:10, Roswyne wrote: >> >> >> >> I would personally like to get a lawyer's opinion. However, I don't >> >> have copies of the leases, which I would need to get from the board. >> > >> > >> > Could you also ask how much the lawyer thinks we would get in damages to >> > compensate us for our losses + punative damanges and what the lawyers >> would >> > want to take from that? (at least 33%?) >> > >> > You'll be posing three hypotheticals: >> > * If action is taken against us (such as doors locked prematurely) are >> we >> > in a position to sue? >> > * What's our chances of winning? >> > * What kind of cival damanges (compensation for losses and punative) >> would >> > be typical to recieve after a ruling in our favour? >> > >> > Sui, when you get your hands on the text, I would recommend reading >> closely >> > any clauses that set out and limit what uses we could make use of the >> space >> > for -- as that's likely to be the primary line of counter attack that >> they'd >> > use, they'd claim we violated the lease by using the space in ways the >> lease >> > said we were not supposed to. >> > >> > And so with that we're going to have to think back about how we used the >> > space and also how *Assent Works* used the space to be sure there >> weren't >> > use-related breaches -- there isn't a leg to stand on if either of us >> broke >> > what it said regarding use. >> > >> > Any lawyer is going to ask questions about that in a consult. >> > >> > Specifically, if Assent Works as our co-tennant did something that >> breached >> > the lease then we wouldn't be able to stop the landlord from saying the >> > lease is breached for that reason -- we would only be able to go after >> > Assent Works for breaking the partnership formed with us by signing as >> > co-tennants with us, and we'd have to be able to show they did those >> things >> > without our support or consent. >> > >> > Any scenario involving going after Assent Works for their role in this >> is a >> > nuclear option that I don't even think you'll want to consider. >> > >> > A lawyer may also be interested in about other ways in which we may have >> > breached the lease, so look at the text and try to imagine if particular >> > terms were violated. >> > >> > If in reading the lease you find something that you think we may have >> > breeched, report it directly to the board. >> > ------------- >> > >> > One of the most sad things about the large back pile of utility bills >> being >> > thrown at Assent Works and Skullspace is that they're only subtracting >> the >> > Cr8tory amounts and $1000 annual common area credit -- there's no >> > subtraction for the electricity use they thought we were going to use >> for >> > our purposes. Surely they didn't imagine zero -- even storage places >> have to >> > have the (ineffecient) lights on sometimes. >> > >> > Ditto for the new lease proposed, there's no subtraction for what they >> > thought before we were going to use for our own purposes, so the net >> effect >> > even in *their* own terms now is a rent increase. >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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