I bought a business building 2 years ago and one of the tenants wanted to co-purchase the building with me, but I decided to purchase it by myself to avoid problems down the road. Well when I purchased the building the tenant started to cause problems for me. He started by saying he wanted to expand his space so I made arrangements for him to expand, and when it came time for him to expand he decided to renege on the whole deal. It upset me but I was forgiving. Then it came time for him to renew his lease and he refused to sign a new lease (but he continued to make his monthly payments) and eventually moved out. The final straw and what I need help with is about a year ago the city had a bunch of odd shaped sections of land that they were selling off in silent auctions, and a 20ft. strip of property that separates my building’s parking lot from the only entrance to the parking lot was one of the pieces of land for sale, long story short I put in a bid and unknown to me so did my now ex-tenant and he won. Now he is punishing me by not allowing any of my employees or tenants or any of our customers drive over his piece of land to park on my parking lot and if any one does he calls the police and threatens me that he will sue. It is so bad that I used to have a dumpster in my parking lot and he wouldn’t allow the garbage truck drivers pass over his lot to retrieve the trash, so I was forced to get 10 garbage cans so that I can drag them around his property line to the ally for garbage retrieval. What can I do? Because of him not allowing people cross his land to park in my parking lot no one will lease any space in my building. How can I win? He says that he will sell the piece of property to me for 3 times as much as he paid for it, and he paid 2 times too much for it to begin with.
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