Lafayette Music Legal Expense fund
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Even though we pay our rent and have three years remaining on our lease, our landlord, Flatirons Church, wants us out of this space but they don't want to buy out our lease. They say it "doesn't" work for them. Instead, they prefer to use a clause in our lease which they think gives them the right to force us into another space in this center which is less visible, less accessible and totally unsuited to our business yet charge us the same rent and force us to pay for things we already have in our current location such as providing wheelchair accessibility. Sounds incredible, but it's true. If you go to our facebook page, facebook.com/lafayettemusicstore, you can see some pictures comparing our current space to where they want to force us as well as some continuing updates on how the fight is going.
Unfortunately, the only way we can stop them from killing our business is to take them to court and that is going to cost money. We are currently running a sale in the store, SOS 2 - the "Forced Relocation Sale", to help raise the money we are going to need. If you want some real bargains, take advantage of the sale and help yourself and us at the same time. In addition to the sale, however, we are trying to raise $15,000 through this site to make sure that we can see this fight through to the end. Flatirons is one of the 5 largest churches in the country and they are worth millions of dollars so this is a real David and Goliath battle. In fact, they just recently threatened to evict us if we do not sign a new lease, like lambs to the slaughter, agreeing to their terms so we need all the help we can get.
We will try to post as much information as we can on the store's facebook page as we get time to work on it. This fight with the church has been going on for months and makes it very difficult to keep up with the demands of the business but we know that we will win in the end especially with all the support and prayers from all the people who appreciate what we have tried to do with this small store.
Unfortunately, the only way we can stop them from killing our business is to take them to court and that is going to cost money. We are currently running a sale in the store, SOS 2 - the "Forced Relocation Sale", to help raise the money we are going to need. If you want some real bargains, take advantage of the sale and help yourself and us at the same time. In addition to the sale, however, we are trying to raise $15,000 through this site to make sure that we can see this fight through to the end. Flatirons is one of the 5 largest churches in the country and they are worth millions of dollars so this is a real David and Goliath battle. In fact, they just recently threatened to evict us if we do not sign a new lease, like lambs to the slaughter, agreeing to their terms so we need all the help we can get.
We will try to post as much information as we can on the store's facebook page as we get time to work on it. This fight with the church has been going on for months and makes it very difficult to keep up with the demands of the business but we know that we will win in the end especially with all the support and prayers from all the people who appreciate what we have tried to do with this small store.
Organizer
Mark Benassi
Organizer
Lafayette, CO
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