• WasPentalive
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    Company before COVID: “We have 32 buildings across 5 campuses in 3 cities” After Covid: “We have 32 empty buildings no one will buy from us for enough to even break even. If we sell them no we lose millions, but they just sit empty”

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      Company probably doesn’t own the buildings. Company is leasing the office space from the building owner(s) … who are probably executives and/or board members.

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            The company doesn’t own the buildings, but the owners of the company, the ones that would see the bonus money for selling the buildings (company savings on rent and a terminated lease), own the buildings.

            So there are a lot of mental gymnastics, but the punchline is that the company does own the buildings with a lot of rotten little pockets in the irs filings…

            Your initial and final statement, while both true, do very much contradict eachother.

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              I get what you’re saying - yes, the owners of the company also own the buildings - but that is different from the company owning the buildings.