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Whenever you negotiate a lease for anything, you are engaging in a battle between people who have two opposing desires. Ultimately, you aim to reach a compromise between those desires which satisfies both parties. Of course, you would prefer to get everything that you want from the deal but that’s not what a negotiation is all about. Nevertheless, there are certain things that you can do to weigh the odds more heavily in your favor so that the outcome is closer to your original desires than to those of the person with whom you are negotiating. (more…)