Every commercial tenant is concerned about the costs of maintaining their premises.
Tenants of stand-alone properties are, to a certain extent, masters of their own destiny. Provided they carry out a regular programme of maintenance, they should not expect to receive a large bill for dilapidations at the end of the Lease. Dilapidations is the name given to the repairs that have to be done to a property to put it back to an agreed state. If the property has not been maintained by the tenant, the landlord can issue dilapidation notices during the currency of the Lease too. A landlord will inevitably endeavour to include as much as he possibly can by way of service charge.