Hi again,
Well it's Monday morning and still no response from the landlords. We are really close to an agreement. we countered that we'd like the lease agreement to start (rent abatement) after health dept sign off or Jan 15 whichever comes first and I have access the demo & build out starting at lease signing.

I think writing them a letter explaining that once we submit our plans to environmental health, they sit on them for 30 days then the fire marshal sits on them before we can even start the build out and then mechanical gets to weigh in.

Then if all goes according to schedule (in construction???... not) then we call the health dept again for a final inspection BUT that takes at least 2 weeks to get them out. AND if you try to guesstimate and miss your deadline it's best case another 2 weeks waiting worst case $283.00 and another 2 weeks wait.

So our timeline for completion isn't a random fabricated date. It's because so much of it is dead time out of our hands.

I'm close to tears. Have you noticed that buying/leasing is really tough and emotionally charged while the selling end of it is relatively painless. I guess by the time you sell, a certain detachment has happened.

Well that's it for now. Keep your fingers crossed.