What should I tell my landlord on my lease?

[SoCaliSmoker]

Need some some suggestions from the ICmag community! Here is the shindig:

I found a 640 square foot commercial property here in San Diego. The rent is almost a $1.00 a square foot (which is great and affordable) and the Realtor who found the property for me had a chance to run "what I was doing" by the owner of the commercial property and he was fine with it. I found a proposition 215 friendly landlord! Yaaaay....

Here is where I'm stuck:

The commercial property owner understands what I'm doing, has a few other business in the shopping center next to me (a Barber Shop, a Nail Shop, a Mexican Food restaurant - A HYDROPONIC STORE!!!) but he has a property management company that he hired to collect all payments from the surrounding businesses. Meaning that although HE understands what I'm doing, he is not the one who will be collecting the payments from the businesses. The property management still has to have you fill out your application forms and collects your payments every month. He can't damper his relationship with his property management company by telling them what I do because the property management company may not be so happy about it and terminate their agreement. For whatever reason.

Now, I had a chance to meet some of my neighbors (they are all vietnamese, they are all cool and know whats up) and they told me that the property management company never stops by as long as you pay your bill every month. All they want is there damn money! But I still have to put a ficticious business on my application so I was wondering what you guys suggest I put on my application form.

Just for reference, my lights will be running from 6:00 at night until 6:00 in the morning. I have a seperate place (my house) that I use for Veg so the warehouse is strictly for flowering. What would I put on my application page? Am I using it as a storage? Is it a business (if so, what kind?). What would use energy from 6:00 at night til 6:00 in the morning? A recording studio?

It's not like it's deathly important because I know at one point or another I'm going to think of something creative but I was wondering what you guys would do? What would you say was your business?

Please keep the conversation to straight up answers guys. I'm really going to take what you suggest seriously and run these options by my partner.

Thanks everyone!

 

[humble1]

Now, I had a chance to meet some of my neighbors (they are all vietnamese, they are all cool and know whats up)

let me get this straight.
Do your landlord, your real estate agent, and now some of your neighbors know that you're going to be growing at this location???

It doesn't matter what you put on the application.

First rule of fight club.

You're gonna get jacked.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

yea man i am not down with telling everyone that im growing.

jesus man it aint THAT accepted yet.

my friend just got raided today and he wasnt evenn growing that much!!



this just doesnt sound like a good idea. the commercial place itself sounds pretty cool. it is just one big room? you might have to put up a fake wall and some desks out front.

 

[justintime420]

ouch would have been better with a fictious business front all together and that no one knew about your space....a friend of mine said his warehouse was for music recording and it wasnt an issue with the company....ive even seen some people live out of these

 

[StealthyStalks]

As long as the owner of the building is cool with it, it shouldn't matter what the property management people think; they work for him. I'm sure they won't have to worry about the rent being paid. If it's all legal and above board I don't see what the fuss is???

I wouldn't be letting everybody know what's going on in there though. NEED TO KNOW BASIS ONLY!!!

 

[steppinRazor]

let me get this straight.
Do your landlord, your real estate agent, and now some of your neighbors know that you're going to be growing at this location???

It doesn't matter what you put on the application.

First rule of fight club.

You're gonna get jacked.

thats exactly what i was thinking. and no so much the landlord as much as the people working the 9-5 for probably minimum wage next doors..

if you're still gonna use the building you could always say you have a business selling shit on ebay and use that room for storage.. processing orders all night ect.. also do they even record when the electric is running?

 

[SoCaliSmoker]

Thanks for the input guys, I meant the Vietnamese guys know whats up as in the Hydroponic store owner smoked a few of them out (not that they know I'm going to grow there!! LOL) Sorry, I should have been more specific.

The only person that KNOWS I'M GROWING is the landlord. I do appreciate the words of wisdom though, I don't want to get jacked and I know how it is. Loose lips sink ships. And may get you killed!

I like the recording studio and thought deep on it. All suggestions are welcome, thanks everyone!

 

[SuperSizeMe]

Exotic pets distributor, they need heat at night

 

[robbiedublu]

Need some some suggestions from the ICmag community! Here is the shindig:

I found a 640 square foot commercial property here in San Diego. The rent is almost a $1.00 a square foot (which is great and affordable) and the Realtor who found the property for me had a chance to run "what I was doing" by the owner of the commercial property and he was fine with it. I found a proposition 215 friendly landlord! Yaaaay....

Here is where I'm stuck:

The commercial property owner understands what I'm doing, has a few other business in the shopping center next to me (a Barber Shop, a Nail Shop, a Mexican Food restaurant - A HYDROPONIC STORE!!!) but he has a property management company that he hired to collect all payments from the surrounding businesses. Meaning that although HE understands what I'm doing, he is not the one who will be collecting the payments from the businesses. The property management still has to have you fill out your application forms and collects your payments every month. He can't damper his relationship with his property management company by telling them what I do because the property management company may not be so happy about it and terminate their agreement. For whatever reason.

Now, I had a chance to meet some of my neighbors (they are all vietnamese, they are all cool and know whats up) and they told me that the property management company never stops by as long as you pay your bill every month. All they want is there damn money! But I still have to put a ficticious business on my application so I was wondering what you guys suggest I put on my application form.

Just for reference, my lights will be running from 6:00 at night until 6:00 in the morning. I have a seperate place (my house) that I use for Veg so the warehouse is strictly for flowering. What would I put on my application page? Am I using it as a storage? Is it a business (if so, what kind?). What would use energy from 6:00 at night til 6:00 in the morning? A recording studio?

It's not like it's deathly important because I know at one point or another I'm going to think of something creative but I was wondering what you guys would do? What would you say was your business?

Please keep the conversation to straight up answers guys. I'm really going to take what you suggest seriously and run these options by my partner.

Thanks everyone!

YESSSS! I'm sure your landlord would NEVER mention a word about what you're doing to anyone. Good luck !!

 

[Yes4Prop215]

recording studio is a pretty good idea.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

found this in another subforum--computer shop was front as mj growing, burglary call notified the cops...burglar cut all the tops off
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=157462

 

[darthvapor]

be carefull. san diego is anti-pot pro republican. Look what they did to all the dispensaries in san diego. what a shame its a beautiful place to live

 

[Yes4Prop215]

yea even in oaksterdam this would be considered "hot". and in SD wow i hear they dont even accept state laws down there. better to fly under the radar. tell your landlord you are changing your plans and now intend to open a music recording studio. create several growrooms inside the main room and call them the sound booths.

 

[Rednick]

If the landlord is cool with it, then fuck the property mgmt company. Tell them whatever you want.

Fish breeding store. (wholesale, not retail)
You live by the Pacific Ocean.
You breed fish, and coral and then sell them. It takes a lot of lighting to do this, pumps, tanks, heaters, water filters, ect.
If you don't know about fish, then learn.

Well then there is...metal working shop, glass working/ceramic shop (electric kilns use a lot of juice), manufacturing shop (you run a machine that makes staples, or hog rings).
Lots of things use juice in a warehouse. You run an induction heater and make friggin Titanium components?

At least you will be close to the store, right?

Or are you going to order your supplies elsewhere?

 

[iSmokeTrees]

This is going to sound racist.

But if you told the mexicans next to you that you are growing, their illegal cousin is going to jack you.

 

[blinx420]

Say it's artist shop where you make paintings and such so if they smell pot they won't think nothing of it being that artistic people like to blaze

 

[redspaghetti]

You;re back in the westcoast now bro?
Hit me up if you need cuttings
Cant wait to see u put up a journal man!

Cheers,

Red.

 

[Moldy Dreads]

yea man i am not down with telling everyone that im growing.

jesus man it aint THAT accepted yet.

my friend just got raided today and he wasnt evenn growing that much!!



this just doesnt sound like a good idea. the commercial place itself sounds pretty cool. it is just one big room? you might have to put up a fake wall and some desks out front.

Please elaborate..in SD?

 

[beatster]

be carefull. san diego is anti-pot pro republican. Look what they did to all the dispensaries in san diego. what a shame its a beautiful place to live

I want to know what they did to all the stores in San Diego... ??? I'm from Diego havnt lived there in years but visit yearly...What happened??

 

[SoCaliSmoker]

To be honest, San Diego still has harsh medical marijuana laws. Although we may be able to win in court with proper documentation, it will still be an uphill battle as Im sure that the police will still rip out all the plants and charge me until I can prove in a court otherwise.

When I was looking for a house to grow, my biggest worry was the landlord finding out. So I starting looking around for Proposition 215 friendly Realtors and found a guy local to me. I asked him how his progress has been and so far he had found 3 homes for guys in my same situation. I told him whether it's commercial or residential, could he find a place for me too? It took him about 8 or 9 days and here we are.

It was a TRIP talking to the landlord! I walked into the place to check it out and it still had hydroton rock on the ground from the guys who were there before me! LOL. The main A.C in the place was broken (costs $2,400 to fix) but I was going to bring in a portable A.C but he walked me outside, had me look at the electric boxes, the place has a front AND backdoor entrance (for privacy) and it was everything I was looking for.

Times really are changing but they still stay the same. At the end of the day, I don't know this guy and I am kind of weery, but it's the first time I've ever spoke openly with someone about what I'm doing. Give it a few years and people will be parking on the street in public to jump out and sell a bag! Just like in San Fran right now (that's what happened to me when I was there!)