Jackson Jambalaya

What is a "monthly capital area maintenance charge"?

It’s crazy how “pay up or shut down” works both ways 😭🤣

It is a CAM also known as Common Area Maintenance charge. It is set up to cover all the costs of maintaining the property, outdoor lighting, cleaning the premises, etc. Most all retail leases call for payment of CAM. Sometimes referred to as triple net (NNN) leases require the tenant to pay it percentage share of taxes, utilities and insurance.

Nobody rides for free.

When the tenant agrees to pay their property taxes-rated share of maintenance fees.

I have been taking my son to get his hair cut in this shopping center for years ... hope they dont boot her

Why didn't they just close before they got that many months behind on the rent.

I’m 68 years old and I believe my first haircut was at Maywood Mart

If you don't make the nut the restaurant will shut.

It shouldn't be news that if you don't pay your bills you get to pay the consequences.

Maurice Howard gave me the best haircuts at Maurice’s at Maywood Mart in the 80’s and part of the 90’s. It was a real “old fashioned” haircut. Then he opened new shops at Grants Ferry, Madison and Ridgeland that were more salons than barber shops.
I always followed him to whichever shop he was working that day.
Maurice was a good man and we truly miss him.

To use a Kim Wade phrase ..."who in their rabbit mind" ... would rent anything in Jackson, Mississippi for $7,210 per month.

@10:54
The retail stores across the street pay much much much more than that at highland village. Do you know that area. Lots of nice houses and stay at home wives that play tennis all day like to go shop at Whole Foods and eat lunch there after tennis or yoga at country club or river hill. Several of the developers that develop Madison ridgeland live over there. You know a lot of the JA and prep families are the ones they’re catering too along with several boutique over priced home designers over there too. It’s an enclave that thinks they’re better than you

@10:51- Maurice has been cutting my hair for years and years…. She does a pretty dang good job!
Sure do miss Beaman’s

I'm not surprised Moe's went belly-up because the food was awful and there are many good Tex-Mex restaurants in the area. I ate at the Moe's in Byram once. Once was more than enough.

6:27 - good catch. You should teach these lawyers to rely on reading comprehension instead of spell check. Talk about sloppy legal work.

Dumb question, but is ~$7,800/mo really an expected market rate for a spot like that??

10:54pm lives under a rock.

Do you know that area.

I'm convinced you don't.

Thank God. Moe's is awful.

@6:36 - We shop at Whole Foods and some of the shops in Highland Village. We don't fit your stereotype as we are products of public schools and state universities, we don't play tennis, we've always been employed, we live in a rural area (thank God) and we rarely eat out. I can cook better food at home with fresh ingredients from Whole Foods than I can buy at most local restaurants.

You think the rent there is crazy? Check some of the prices in Flowood. It's like they want the space empty.

"The jealousy runs deep in this one"

It’s not the first moes to come and go. The first one was years ago and it was not good at all. Lasted maybe a year. I was surprised to see this one pop up and am amazed it lasted this long.

@ 8:32
It appears so as Highland village seems to thrive across the street and watercolor salon as well as the insanely expensive gift shop “Brock’s” has expanded there

6:36 am I don't think I'm "better than you". I think I got very lucky in having parents that prepared me to be self-supporting and independent and that their genetic mix worked in my favor. They also made sure my brother and I lived in "nice" and " safe" neighborhoods. They made sure we learned good manners and tried to do our best in everything we did and that good ethics and honor is everything. Being ethical, honest and kind and not self-centered makes life easier and more enjoyable. Money without honesty and good people in your life leaves you lonely or in jail. Recognizing other good people isn't easy as some hide who they are well but it's still the dishonest, onery and mean spirited who spread misery and misfortune. Money can't fix that. I'm thrilled for my friends and family who have been more financially successful and some have both money and fame. Ignorance and anger and jealousy are self-inflicted wounds. Life isn't fair, you can fix everything that gets broken but it's all in how you chose to react.

Do y'all know those who built the shopping center also get a percentage of the store or restaurant's profits over and above the rent and shopping center's maintenance fees? A new renter does all the renovations. I hope there's been some improvement in that but it was also the case for friends who moved their Jackson businesses/offices to Flowood or Madison but the process. Start looking at the signs offering the store for rent. You'd be surprised how few families own most of the commercial properties and some extended that first successful effort to Flowood. Some of the richest families in Northeast Jackson get income from manufacturing plants elsewhere. Indeed, once upon a time it was easy to spot ONE SIGN always in the windows of available "store fronts". Mississippi's laws are very favorable to wealthiest and make it hard for new businesses to " start up". We either elect the business ignorant or the deliberately ignorant or wannabees who look the other way far too often. We are all in this together ...rich or poor but honesty is getting to be a casualty of our ignorance (deliberate or innate).

Envy, the "I am as good as you" malarky being spread all over America could well be fata.

That’s what I’m thinking

Not surprised. The available ingredients there shrank. The meats shrank and became awful. The service was a bunch of thugs that could care less. Not so much as a thank you for an online order pickup.

The salsa bar was the only bright spot. It was stocked and clean.

I’m not at all surprised though given the attitudes in there.

Thanks, I no longer live in the area and perhaps that's reasonable...just seems like a quite a few burritos (in a world of high competition) required to simply keep a roof over the operation.

You are clearly ignorant if you haven't kept up with the MA REIT that bought Highland Village or the company that owns .......nevermind. You already know it all or got fired from being a shoe store manager at one of the shopping centers.

Other than maintaining the parking lot, what does the maintenance fee go to? Security? The Maywood Mart grounds are not exactly budding with landscaping and the empty stores next to them are not propped up to look nice (even malls include marketing walls and such to keep you from looking at an empty and disheveled space). The $7,200 monthly rent should cover the building cost.

To 6:36: I live in that area. I'm a woman and cut my own hair, mow my own lawn, work in my yard nearly every day, never played tennis and rarely eat out. I prefer my own cooking. Stop with the stereotypes.
I've never considered myself better than anyone. Maybe get to know us instead of judging us.

1:10 this is a Moe’s. Go back to your second martini and get back with us tomorrow.

Couldn’t care less.

CAM fees to to painting the fake stucco

"A" for effort, but food was mediocre at best.

Man, you gotta sell a LOT of Tacos to cover $7K in rent ever month!

Maywood parking lot sucks, way too tight. Used Maurice's 25 years ago but repulsively disliked shoulder massage shit, so learned to cut my own hair. Saves so much time and money.