Warehouse rental law advise.

[Jim Bremner]

I signed a lease for 1 year in a warehouse that had a zoning issue.

I saw it as it was. It looked,smelt,felt like a warehouse.

The Landlord knew it had issues but rented it to me as a warehouse on the contract.

I left at month 13 so my side of the contract was upheld. I did stay 6 extra days which I told the LL that I would pay 1/30th of the months rent per day.

I'm to meet with him in the next few days to walk the rental to show zero damage. I do expect to get me deposit back MINUS the 6 days pro-rated rent.

It cost me 1 week of shipping time. and around 5k in cost to move PLUS the new lease, the agent scoured 4% commission.

If my ex LL is a jerk about my deposit do I have any stand due to his malice of renting me a warehouse that had conning issues ( I couldn't get a license as a wholesaler due to it)

[dondarnell]

Do not understand. What was th problem? Did you have to move becausevof zoning?

[Esel Mann]

Sorry to hear about your issue with the place.

Your post has limited details but from what I gather it sounds like you were not able to obtain an occupational license (license to occupy a certain place and do business there) from the city/county?

Now my place is in FL so perhaps CA is different. Here in FL an owner is supposed to technically obtain the occupational license prior to occupying the place of business. It is at that time the city/county reviews the location and your type of business to ensure it meets there codes/standards for doing business. Correct zoning being of course one of those codes.

Thus while the landlord may have told you one thing, it's the city/county who makes the final decision, hence the need to do this process before moving in (and also making any lease contingent upon success of such). So not doing such up front would fall upon you and not the landlord. Again I will reiterate that this is from a FL perspective but I would guess the grand republic of CA is as bad or worse in terms of this type of stuff.

I do hope it all works out with your new place!

[1990C4S]

Not worth the cost to pursue. If he is a prick about it have a real estate lawyer send him a letter, and possibly file papers to sue him. But do not chase a (relatively) small amount of money through the courts. You can't win.