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This is one of those situations where it once again shows that:
Selling property to rent it back should also be super illegal. Is there ever a time this makes sense. If you want to sell land to profit, close the fucking place, there’s no way it’ll suddenly be more profitable while renting.
Not defending PE, but there are situations where this type of thing would make sense. If the rates were low enough a company could cash out it's property value using something like this and use the cash for an expansion, to make a moonshot investment, or maybe as a last ditch to survive in a downturn.
That's not what's happening here, but turning real assets to cash through debt to then invest in the business is a decent tactic.
I see your point, though I don’t know of an example (they’re doing it with Hospitals now too).
Still if you have so many locations that you have enough capital in their land, it seems like closing the locations that you’d sell would make a moonshot more likely to succeed.
Yeah, since I wrote that I've been trying to think of a real world example and haven't come up with one. Perhaps my ramblings are purely hypothetical or maybe pulled directly from my ass.
McLaren did this with their campus location to allow them to restructure (survive)
McLaren Sale and Leaseback
the government rarely wants to incentivise direct job loss
Wouldn't using those assets as collateral for a loan achieve the exact same thing though? Conceptually it's the same principle except you retain your ownership if you don't default.
I guess selling the asset would bring in slightly more immediate revenue than loaning (at the expense of extreme volatility in long term costs). But I don't think this justification really makes sense for a company not trying to cook the books. If this kind of move ever becomes a true necessity, entering a bankruptcy procedure is probably a better option for everyone involved lol
It would make sense for me to sell my apartment and rent it back because I get fucked by ODSP if I take a roommate while I'm an owner and I can't afford to live here alone.
It would make sense for an entity that needs to make use of their equity for other things. Many many individuals and companies mortgage their properties or get secured loans. That's basically the same thing.
If you’re a business owning a building, maintenance is another thing you have to take care of as well as the business. If you’re not equipped to maintain the building or pay people to do it, then it might be better to rent and have the landlord take care of that stuff.
My union is selling our building because it wasn’t really anybody’s job to keep up on maintenance for the last 30 years. Now people that care are in there and they got estimates and whatnot, and it came to like a $600,000 bill to get it all caught up.
So we’re partnering with a local non-profit and moving our office in to their space with meeting rooms and whatnot that we can share. We have one meeting a month and training sessions already happen elsewhere. All of work is done away from the building aside from 3 people in the office full time, so it makes sense in our situation.
Yeah this makes sense, basically the downsizing I was talking about. Though I was thinking about an org with many branches, rather than underutilized office space.
A company is not somebody, it's a thing, like a home or a car that you have no problem getting a loan to pay for. Or maybe it's special because we're talking about a means of production? C'mon. Say it. Say "means of production."
No, no companies are people. Buying and selling them is slavery.
The Supreme Court said corporations are people enough to be protected by the first amendment.
The Supreme Court can say the moon is a person and the sun is God. It can decide what entities it will extend the protection of rights to, but it cannot redefine what a person is outside of its own technical jargon.
Citizens United has entered the chat
The very first words of US law:
1 U.S. Code § 1 - Words denoting number, gender, and so forth
...the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;
Okay? That's a definition that only has scope within that specific document and those it governs. Plus, it's a definition of two entirely different words.
If we had a strong reform minded government, our leaders could oppose these parasites, and then make examples out of those that mistreat our productive companies. Like which of these private Equity douchebags can't be hit with a crime for something or another? Not a single one, you can get everyone with the tax evasion charges.
We need leaders that protect us from these monied parasites.