Linens of Paris, Inc. v. Cymet
Decision Date | 21 July 1987 |
Docket Number | No. 85-2277,85-2277 |
Citation | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 1767,510 So.2d 1021 |
Parties | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 1767 LINENS OF PARIS, INC., trading as Un Jardin En Plus and Shur's Interiors Broward, Inc., d/b/a Roche Bobois, Appellants, v. Seymour CYMET, Leonard Haber and Lawrence H. Rogovin, d/b/a 36th Street Realty Associates, Appellees. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Giller & Kasdin, Cooper, Wolfe & Bolotin, and Sharon Wolfe, Miami, for appellants.
Lawrence H. Rogovin, North Miami Beach, for appellees.
Before HENDRY, NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
We reverse the final summary judgment entered in favor of Seymour Cymet, Leonard Haber and Lawrence H. Rogovin, d/b/a 36th Street Realty Associates (36th Street) on its claims against Linens of Paris, Inc. and Shur's Interiors Broward, Inc. (Linens). Because the parties could and did validly limit the remedies available in the event of a breach of their commercial lease agreement, see Rodeway Inns of America v. Alpaugh, 390 So.2d 370 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980); S.H. Kress & Co. v. Desser & Garfield, Inc., 193 So.2d 192 (Fla. 3d DCA 1966), the trial court erred in granting summary judgment for 36th Street based upon a common law remedy 36th Street expressly agreed to forego in the lease agreement.
Under the terms of the lease agreement drafted by 36th Street, once Linens breached the lease, 36th Street could either cancel the lease or attempt to re-let the premises as Linens's agent. It could not merely stand by, do nothing and recover the rent as it became due, as permitted by the common law of Florida. 1 In the absence of further action on the part of 36th Street, the trial court's final summary judgment awarding 36th Street damages for rent due after Linens had defaulted and abandoned the premises was erroneous. Furthermore, since 36th Street conceded at argument before this court that it had not exercised the remedy options available to it under the lease, of either cancelling the lease or retaking the property as Linen's agent, we hold that it waived its remedies under the lease. Cf. Gergora v. Flynn, 486 So.2d 5, 6 (Fla. 3d DCA) (, )review denied, 500 So.2d 544 (Fla.1986); Altiere v. Atlantic Nat'l Bank, 168 So.2d 693, 695 (Fla. 2d DCA 1964) ( ); In re Boogaart, Inc., 17 B.R. 480, 485 (Bankr.S.D.Fla.1981) (). Accordingly, we reverse and remand this cause to the trial court to enter judgment for Linens on 36th Street's claim for rent due after Linens had defaulted.
We affirm the portion of the trial court's order finding that 36th Street is entitled to recover increased real estate tax costs, rent, and insurance premiums which were provided for in the lease but which Linens never paid. Because the lease did not establish 36th Street's timely demand as a prerequisite to recovery, as did the lease in National Health Labs., Inc. v. Bailmar, Inc., 444 So.2d 1078, 1080 (Fla. 3d DCA), review denied, 453 So.2d 43 (Fla.1984), Linen's contention that 36th Street waived its right to collect the additional...
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