JD Supra published an article titled Outdoor Advertising: How Billboard Landlords Can Protect Their Property and Their Profits. The author counsels landlords on what to ask for in a billboard lease. Here are five things the author recommends together with Billboard Insider’s response. “A ground lease is the preferred means […]
Insider wrote this in A Billboard Lease is Not a License: Make sure your billboard leases have language which says the agreement inures to the benefit of successors and assigns. Your billboard lease should also contain a clause permitting assignment without consent. Some landlords will object. Next best is language […]
A billboard lease is not a license. That’s the lesson of Justin Management vs Metro Outdoor. Here are the facts. Justin Management subleased property to Metro outdoor to provide Metro the exclusive rights to install advertising on Justin’s property. The sublease included language saying that it would inure to the […]
Record your leases. Record your leases. Record your leases. That’s the lesson of Peck v Milford Hunt Homeowners. Here are the facts. On March 2, 1999 Riverview Chase Associates an entity in which Arnold Peck was an investor, sold a parcel of land in Milford, Connecticut to T&M Homes, LLC. […]
Last week we discussed the pros and cons of billboard lease financing. Today we discuss the pros and cons of bank and private loan financing. Banks usually have the cheapest loans because they have a low cost deposit base. And banks are often big enough to grow with you as […]
Beware of billboard lease termination clauses which allow the lease to be cancelled on a sale to a third party. That’s the lesson of International Outdoor versus Dix Road. Here are the facts. In 1998 the Donald Golden Trust leased property to Rite Media of Michigan for a billboard. […]
Acquiring land via a tax foreclosure doesn’t give a company ownership of a billboard. That’s the lesson of Outfront vs CYA Properties. Here are the facts: In 1971 OUTFRONT leased vacant land in Wayne County, Michigan to install a billboard. The lease was renewed several times, most recently in 2009. […]
Landmark Infrastructure released financials for the third quarter of 2020. Revenues increased by 10% to $14.2 million. Net income increased from $701,ooo in the third quarter of 2019 to $1.5 million in the third quarter of 2020. The company added 23 new leases and easements during the third quarter of […]
Another city is raising money for city services by leasing land on city property for digital billboards. On Sept 1 Kingston Mass approved two OUTRONT Media billboard leases generating approximately $200,000/year in lease payments for 25 years. The billboards will be on town-owned parcels at 8 Cranberry Road and 60 […]
Avoid complicated consent to assignment language in your billboard lease. That’s the lesson of Atkins Media Group vs Del Val Realty Group. Here are the facts: Atkins Media entered into a lease with Del Val Realty Group to permit Atkins to put a billboard on land owned by Del Val. […]
