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tardy_one | 1 year ago

If you think ypu are going to make it rich signing contracts only the other side can enforce then how would you remain solvent? There's a lot more other business in the world.

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lazide|1 year ago

Hah, the reason Musk is able to do what he wants on this front is because for these leasing companies, their choice is either him or…. Vacant.

He’s just calling their bluff.

If they thought they could get another tenant, they already would have.

Commercial real estate in many areas of the US is so crazy delusional right now (and has been for years) it’s all about who blinks first and who has leverage.

tardy_one|1 year ago

That's a Musk summary of his distorted reality. What happened in their international real estate is that they vacated key real estate where they had leases. They've pissed off the people that will do their long term leases on prime showrooms to BYD, not just the desperate highway belt office park admins.

Even if people in that part of the real estate market are desperate relative to their normal they have tricks to ignore business they don't want to deal with and take a lower offer from someone they either trust or at least don't distrust.

Making it obvious that the US is no longer a country of laws and contract law will work against people like him in the long run, so his take for a lot of future costs is irrational and I think he should finally deal with his mental problems.