It's traditional in lease negotiations for the owner of an office building to ask a prospective tenant to show proof that they are in good financial standing and can be expected to pay rent every month. But the public prognostications comparing office real estate to an "apocalypse" and a "Category 5 hurricane" haven't escaped the companies in the market for office space, leading to an increasingly common role reversal: tenants asking landlords to open up their books and provide protection in case they go under. 
"It's not enough to just say, 'You know, we have bulletproof institutional dollars behind us,'" CBRE New York Tri-State Region CEO Mary Ann Tighe said. "The landlords still want to know about the credit of their tenants, but the tenants now say, 'OK, I'll show you mine. You show me…  Read the full story here. | 
