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vent you from selling out and sub-letting. You
don't know what you may want to do or wliat you
may have to do, and it is best to be on the safe side
and not be tied up by a landlord so you have no
option. There are a great many leases which are
liable to carry c.xtras in the way of taxes, water tax
and insurance, and in order that there may be no
misunderstanding it is best to have all these things
spccilically stated in the original document, so yon
will know just how much you will have to pay out
in the course of the year.
No sane man would sign a lease unless he is posi
tive he will be able to secure a license from the
Board-of E.xcisc or the authorities in whom the
power to grant and issue licenses is vested, so that
point will come under early consideration.
There is also the Board of Health to be consid
ered, and it is just as well to find out how the
building stands with that department, irrespective of
what the landlord says.
And now, having your lease and your license, the
next step, naturally, is to furnish.
That will depend entirely upon the neighborhood
and the quality of trade to be capered to and con
trolled. If the neighborhood is high-class the fit
tings must be elegant and costly, and in these days
of extravagance a bar room the equipment of which
costs $10,000 is not unusual.
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