[HELP] Understanding "Common Space"
Hello,

I have been leasing a space for 17 month now and I am looking to acquire more space from my landlord.

Our first lease says that we are leasing 1750+/- sqft including nonexclusive use in common with others of all such parking areas, driveways, corridors, sidewalks, and loading facilities other common areas, and facilities as may be designated by the landlord.

We are now acuring 1500+/- sqft in the same building.

New space:
http://imgur.com/a/wwLtH

Measures at 26ft by 64ft. So a common area of 164ft (Which seems good)

I do not have a drawing of my space over when measuring I am getting 1250sqft. Or 500sqft of common space.

Seems fishy to me,

What do I do?
[{"id": "dea52et", "text": "Common space is all space in the building that is not leasable. Bathrooms, closets, hallways, lobby's, etc. They usually calculate your share by taking the total rentable sq. ft. of the building and dividing your rentable sq. ft. by that number. ie you pay your prorata share of the common elements of the building.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "deag913", "text": "regardless of the size of your space, you should have 100% use (non-exclusive) of the common areas. You should not be \"assigned\" assigned a certain number of square feet for common areas. [note, this is subject to what your lease says - you may be granted specific parking spaces and whatnot]\n\nWhere square footage of space you lease comes into play is how the common areas are paid for regarding maintenance and taxes and so forth. As mentioned this is usually called your \"prorata share\" or sometimes \"proportionate share\". To figure this, take the total square feet you lease (in your case 3,250) and divide that by the total leaseable square footage of the building. This will get you a percentage. So if the building has 25,000 square feet, you would divide 3,250 by 25,000 and get 0.13 or 13%. This means that you would pay 13% of the total costs associated with the maintenance of the common areas. [again, this is subject to your lease which can assign a flat fee or increase over base year or other calculation manner - but if that was the case, I would assume you would not be asking]\n", "replies": [{"id": "deagvif", "text": "Thank you this helps understand this a lot more!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "deah9l0", "text": "Get an architect, as in your architect involved. They will be able to tell you the exact size. More often than not the disconnect is load or add-on factor. Basically you are paying for the entire rentable area but can only use a smaller portion. This is due to building columns etc. \n\nTLDR: Could be fishy if you have a shady owner, but probably not.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]