Is a commercial office building allowed to turn AC off on their tenants after hours and on weekends?
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[{"id": "h9z8prw", "text": "Read your lease. That is extremely common. If you would like use after hours, landlords can turn it after hours and charge back for the additional cost. If it's not in your lease, you will have to negotiate it. If this is your employer, bring it up with them to discuss with landlord.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h9zdyzj", "text": "Reading your lease will hopefully provide the answers you are looking for.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h9zh3z8", "text": "Very common, as other's have said...read your lease.  You can usually have it turned on after standard hours, but $50/hour isn't a crazy fee to be charged (as they might need to send an engineer to the building to turn it on/off).\n\nMost LL's I work with want you as a Tenant to be happy, so if the lease is or isn't clear have a conversation with ownership.  You can figure something out...but nothing is free.", "replies": [{"id": "h9zixh0", "text": "Also, they may need to turn on the air for more than just your space - which is part of the reason the cost seems so high.", "replies": [{"id": "h9zp6ro", "text": "Very good point.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ha0tosg", "text": "Check the lease for the overtime usage clause.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ha189lp", "text": "My office building does this, after 6pm the HVAC goes off and the first year analysts, like clockwork, will collectively put their vests on.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ha7ie5y", "text": "LL's do this usually when they have certain types of HVAC units. For instance, I worked on a deal inside a 80,000sf office - the incoming tenant was looking to take 5,500sf for their medical practice. Considering they would typically work past the 'regular' business hours of the building (8-6), they were required to pay an additional $75/Hour for HVAC use. This is 'usual &amp; customary', in office buildings with large HVAC units (from my experience). \n\nCentral cooling is achieved courtesy of an outdoor condenser coil and compressor and an indoor evaporator coil. Heat in the air is transferred to the refrigerant, which then reaches the coil. This cools the air, which is then pumped into the building or room.\n\nLook at it from this perspective: If 1 tenant wants the air condition turned on after hours, the LL/management (in many commercial office buildings) will likely have to turn on the large HVAC units for the entire floor or parts of the building. It can be costly for the LL to run the units, hence why they request additional after hour expenses.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]