Many standard contracts state that if you keep the deposit, you are relieving them of additional liability. 

I am sure there  are deals less but when you consider the mid west at 75 to 125 a foot  thats a big spread.. and basically for the same quality houses.

This afforded me the leverage of having filed and served, then using that to tell the tenants that if they were out and signed papers releasing possession of the apartment before court then I in turn would relieve them of the judgement for back rent.

Any suggestion I can put my foot in the door?

Market OverviewThe Los Angeles warehouse/distribution market is comprised of 476.3 million square feet in eight geographic concentrations ranging in size from the 128.0 million square foot Mid-Cities submarket to the San Fernando Valley West submarket, which accounts for 6.6 million square feet.

Offsetting against future gains and building them up against a potential windfall or RMD retirement days etc.But they're also not bad to use if it relieves a tax burden from a sale in the right situation.  

May setoff tenants on the the wrong foot.

We build a 2004 square foot stacked triplex. the footprint of it is less than 1000 sq ft. it fits on a lot that is less than 3000 sq ft and most of the time we do it with variances.

In most cases, new retail leases come with some amount of concessions from the Landlord which primarily consist of a Free Rent Period to allow the new Tenant to build out their space and a Tenant Improvement Allowance which is a pre-negotiated amount of money that the Landlord contributes to the Tenant to assist with the cost of the build out of the space. a Free rent period can be anywhere form 1 month to 1 year (or more) and a Tenant Improvement Allowance could be $5.00 per square foot or $50.00 per square foot (and in some cases a LOT more).

It's hard to find a home or an investment that is less than or close to $100 a square foot anywhere in the country so the more I write about this, the more I am taking myself into this...9 million visitors cannot be wrong.