Patent ID: 8731985

Claim:
A method of transforming a building space, the method comprising: transforming the building space into a financial services office space by having a company supply for use in the financial services office space at least one selected from a group comprising: furnishings, marketing materials, and computer systems, to operate a financial services business by an operator who agrees, prior to and/or upon payment of a termination amount, not to solicit a plurality of clients the operator has brought to the financial services business, which reverts to the company or an alternate operator selected by the company, at the time of any termination of a relationship between the company and the operator; identifying, via a hardware computer processor coupled to a memory a termination amount based at least in part on one or more measures of value the plurality of clients to whom the operator agrees not to solicit are, or have been, worth to the financial services business operated at least in part in the transformed space; and paying from the company to the operator, the termination amount.