Where I work, some of the bathrooms and hallways are nice and updated, while others have not been remodeled in years.
Could it be that suites pooled their money to pay for the nicer areas? Or does it has to do something w/ politics that goes on between the building owners and the suite occupants?
Your gonna have to help us out here…where do you work? Is each floor rented by a different company Is the entire building all owned by one company? Are different floors used for different things? If floor three us used primarily for filing and is only seen by temp workers on three month stints it’s not going to get the same kind of updating as the penthouse or the first floor that the clients see.
I have no idea in your case, but I doubt the tenants would pool their resources to fix up a building they didn’t own, although I suppose it’s possible in some universe.
My WAG is that the tenants put pressure on the landlord to make improvements in areas they were most concerned about, and the landlord (or property management company) decided to only fix up those specific areas.
Often times, depending on the building, a new tenant is allowed a buildout allowance when they move in. For example, the building manager may, as part of the lease agreement, tell a new tenant that they’ll do $100,000 worth of work to the building/floor for them. Some people might put some of the money towards the bathroom, some might chose to add a kitchen, others might put it towards new lighting or putting up or ripping down walls, it’s up to them to spend it how they want.
I’d say landlords make changes to suit the needs of new tenants when they move in resulting in different standards on different floors.
Office building. All suites are unrelated “companies”. Some are law offices, some are advertising firms, some are financial firms, etc.
3-6 suites on each floor.
Assuming each floor looks drastically different (lighting, offices, flooring etc), they were probably given a buildout allowance. Some put it towards the bathroom, others didn’t. Also, if I move into a floor with a nice bathroom, I’m not going to use my money for that, and if I keep it up, the next person might not either and eventually it winds up outdated.
Even without a buildout allowance, it’s standard procedure to have some pretty hefty costs for tenant/leasehold improvements when a business moves into a space. My buddy works for a company that spent $100,000 of their own money improving the entire floor of a building they moved into. Shortly after the buildout, they lost some key contracts and are closing the office in that city altogether. This floor was formerly rented out as three separate suites to smaller companies, and I’m sure it will revert to that again. The companies on that floor will have a much nicer floor than others and their future employees will probably not know the whole story of how that happened.
With multiple suits per floor where you work, I doubt they got together to improve common areas themselves. However, they may have gotten together in complaining to the landlord. They may have also worked out deals to entice the landlord to do it - increases in rent and extensions on long-term leases can both motivate a landlord to spend a little cash.
The other option is that the landlord is remodeling bathrooms when they need major repairs. Is this one okay? Good, we’ll check it again in six months.
If they remodelled them all at once, where would you go?
Our building has some remodeled baqthrooms and some not. It depends.
If it is a large or a full floor tennant and the bathrooms are in bad shape they can insist that something be done to the bathrooms before signing.
If the bathrooms are bad the management company may remodel some to increase the chances of getting a lease.
Before the Dot com crash space was leased as is. It was up to the tenant to pay for any TI (Tenant Improvements) work. After the crash leases were signed with a crredit for the TI work, so much $$ per sq foot.
Now the company I work for does a tenant ready TI to get the space leased. That is they do a TI before showing the space. The Idea is small companys will want to sign a lease one week and be in the space the next. I do not like these because it there is any problems, and there are, then we have to make it right.