Concerned about a new lease?

The New York Times has a frightening piece on a San Francisco ice cream shop that fought the city’s permits and regulations for two years before it could open. It wasn’t the costs alone, but the regulations and the delays [...]

As part of the Visa and Mastercard antitrust settlement, businesses are now allowed to charge a fee to consumers for using a credit card, a so-called interchange fee. However, California Civil Code section 1748.1(a) bars retailers from charging a surcharge [...]