My client’s business is poised to sell in the next five years so He’s looking for a lease with purchase option. A colleague had his business sold and when he tried to move the new business in the landlord wanted a bunch more money and the right to review the financials of the incoming management team, so he imparted to me how important it was to get a purchase option price set in stone before a long-term lease is signed.

If you look on commercial real estate databases, only the real bottom tier properties will advertise that they will entertain a purchase option either for a price or first right refusal or Some sort of seller financing when an event is triggered. Is there a way to isolate which properties would be interested in even entertaining the idea of a purchase option when looking at commercial property without having to call every broker in town?