Contract Clause help

[sanaxe1]

I currently run a private function venue / offices and today i'm going to find out if i will be acquiring another one. ( Leasing the building)

Now the only thing which is worrying me is, what if i spend a couple of years building up the business and then the guy who owns the building decides he wants the building back and to turn it into the same business i run? Due to the nature of the business if he did take the building back then he would acquire all of my customers as most of them are long term bookings who rent office space or hire a room on set days.

This means I would have wasted a lot of my time and money and he could just step into a ready made profitable business! Is there a clause i could put in the contract saying he agrees not to use any of my customers if he decides to not renew the lease or some similar agreement?

Thanks.

 

[sanaxe1]

Get a longer lease.

I very much doubt you can put a clause in to get him not to rent his offices out as offices

It's not so much that i don't want him to rent his offices out. Its that i want him to find his own customers and not the ones which have cost me time and money in finding. I suppose when he gives me notice i could also tell my customers that we are closing so they leave the venue and he will only have a empty building.

 

[sanaxe1]

Thanks everyone. I will try to get a long term lease when i speak with him later today.