Commercial Landlord-Tenant—Self-Help—Voluntary Abandonment of Premises—Landlord Argued That the Lease Waived Force Majeure Protection and Tenant Had Transferred Its Business and Its Assets to a New Location a Few Blocks Away and Tenant Operated at the New Location With the Same Trade Name, Owners and Employees—Tenant Allegedly “Fraudulently Transferred Assets to a New Location”—Based On Letters Which The Tenant Sent to the Landlord, “Any Rational Person Reading These Letters Would Think That Defendants Had Vacated the Premises”—After Tenant Advised Landlord That They Left the Premises, Tenant Could Not Claim Damages for Items They Left in the Leased Premises

The defendant had leased commercial space from the plaintiff landlord. The landlord contended that the tenant defaulted under the 10-year lease by failing to pay rent since March 2020, and the tenant had abandoned the premises.

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