I wish it was that simple. It's much more complicated due to the fact that a business that was under legal operations was suddenly under extreme pressure from the City to either comply or be shut down. In good faith I had the sprinkler system installed for the benefit of tenant at my cost. The subject property rent was roughly 4K a month for 7500 SF. I tried to help the tenant and even though there had never been a fire issue at the business. The long standing existing fire exit system of 10 push bar exits was never an issue.  Ultimatly the tenant choose not to renew their lease. Even though I am still on the hook for 70k+ and and still making payments for a sprinkler system that was not required but forced upon my tenant then ultimately me. I am sure that if the business was not made to comply to this "Out of the blue" law with Everyone would be in a better position today. When I asked them how are we going to pay for this? The city reply was, you can just raise the price of drinks.