The "lost" rent has to be paid back.
According to the Lease yes, but my wife and her sisters, like many landlords, do not have deep pockets to hire a lawyer at $400/hour to go after the guy when moratoriums are lifted.
That is where these unethical people with stores that never closed and are doing 80 percent plus of "normal" business see their opening to take advantage.
They caved to no payback which is sickening but what are you going to do?
Oddly just yesterday a commercial Real Estate agent has a customer who wants to buy by July 31st and yet they refuse to respond to her and say "we don't want to sell now."
Completely irrational but that's where we sit.
Starbucks is even worse it seems as they are asking for a year of unspecified concessions.
I expect the landlord my wife is dealing with will see that and take the same approach; why not?