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Re:Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @12:21AM (#39752918)
PCP and dental practices are much harder to roll up. The doctors start a competitor, and bring their patients, the second the non-compete ends wiping the practice that was bought
Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses
on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:12AM (#38609783)
Highly doubt the conservative court rules against an American company in favor or a foreign owned entity.
Re:Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:53AM (#36336551)
It’s a letter of credit not line of credit. It’s basically a certified check in a way.
Re:Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:51AM (#36336538)
This is super simple. Twitter put a deposit (think rental deposit) down on their lease in 2020. Instead of depositing $900k with the landlord they deposited 900k into a bank. In turn the bank issued a $900k letter of credit to the landlord who can use the funds in the same fashion a deposit could be used. This is done because LOCs are harder for other creditors to seize in bankruptcy court.
At some point Twitter stopped paying their rent and I’m sure there is a clause in the lease that allows the LL to draw down the letter of credit to pay the rent. Twitter also has an obligation the replenish the LOC.
Re:Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:41AM (#36336465)
It’s called a go dark clause. Fairly common in retail, not as common in office but it happens.
Re:SEC granted emergency restraining order to freeze, repatriate Binan...
on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:39PM (#36236488)
@dang - title should be changed.
Re:US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance
on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:09AM (#36223434)
Typically IPO approvals include a carve out that says this approval cannot bed used a defense in a SEC action. CB will still use it as an argument.
Re:The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”
on Saturday May 13, 2023 @12:55AM (#35925678)
US has similar system called escrow that title companies (a third party) manages.
Re:Half of America’s banks could be insolvent – this is how a credit c...
on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:24PM (#35797491)
Inflows from weaker banks will cause larger banks to increase lending activity as they accumulate dry powder. Banks are in the business of lending and having deposits burns a hole in their pants.
Re:First Republic Bank files 8-K – Tech only 4% of total deposits; no ...
on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:55PM (#35105509)
I have a line of credit from them - will that terminate. The line of credit rate is dependent on me making deposits there and a min deposit.
Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:32PM (#35104514)
MBS is a critical part of the american economy. You wouldn’t be able to buy a house without it.
Re:Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:25PM (#33672260)
She was found not guilty on the patient related matters.
Re:FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceedings
on Friday November 11, 2022 @10:58AM (#33562413)
It’s probably because the parentco is filing. Need to see the BK filing to understand.
Re:Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
on Monday December 27, 2021 @10:05PM (#29709844)
Yup. Exactly that text.
Re:Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
on Monday December 27, 2021 @05:44PM (#29707804)
Got the same but from NJ.
Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into ...
on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:44AM (#24647409)
He would be “dirty” ie has knowledge of Stolen IP.
Re:The Property Industry Is Falling Out of Love with WeWork
on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:02PM (#18722409)
Why would someone from wework want to outline their lack of lease liability. I don't see how anything I commented was positive or negative, I stated some facts.
Re:The Property Industry Is Falling Out of Love with WeWork
on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:46PM (#18722090)
Most of the items you cite are code requirements. Operators like CBRE maintain buildings to class A standards that don’t allow for any violations.
The $1M is escrow is standard and par for the course and a guarantee against credit risk. Many landlords actually require a letter of credit from banks so that if your company were to go bankrupt the money wouldn’t be subject to seizure by bankruptcy courts.
Source: Work at similar landlord.
edit: spelling
Re:The Property Industry Is Falling Out of Love with WeWork
on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:38PM (#18722057)
Wework Brooklyn #22 LLC signs the lease with the landlord and thus is responsible for the lease obligations. Wework LLC (proper) guarantees these lease payments for only 6- 12 months of the lease. After this time the only party responsible for the lease is the LLC that was formed.
Landlords are likely agreeing to this only because Wework would never be able to sign a lease with any owner if they defaulted on a location.