Contracts? Just a start.. – Warnings

newdynasty.com.cn — No matter how long I’m here, this will always be one of the things that I just can not stand. Maybe I am just too American. Maybe it is just that I hate negotiating the same thing over and over again, but I just hate this part of doing business in China.

Latest example is the landlord of one of our offices—she has decided that “everything in the office is hers since she rented the office to us at “such a low price.”Yea right. Never mind the fact that we have a contract that clearly states that the office was rented “empty” and that all “decorations and furnishings” are the tenant’s (my) responsibility. She wants to start negotiations from the point of “it’s all mine” and “I won’t give you your deposit back” unless we give her all the furnishings.

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