Question juridique clé
Whether the lease contract allowed a rent increase due to higher building-lease costs
Solution extraite
The tenants could not in good faith expect a rent increase based on an unmentioned building-lease fee; the contractual basis did not permit that increase.
Motifs extraits
The contract disclosed the reference mortgage rate, index level, and prior cost increase cut-off, which indicated the standardized bases for permissible increases. A building-lease fee was not mentioned and, unlike typical financing costs, was not something the tenants had to anticipate from the contract wording and circumstances.