Dear Diane: I own one of six small stores that share a shoppingmall with four corporately owned stores. "Jones & Co." recentlybecame the new managers of our mall, and we six independents arebeing bled to death by Jones and their army.
Every month, the tenants receive statements with additions tothe rent. We have no grass, but they send us a bill for landscaping.We're billed for snow-plowing, but we shovel the snow ourselves.We're billed for entertainment expenses, but they never brought anyto the plaza.
All six stores have been measured three times. By the thirdmeasurement, all of them had grown - one by 200 square feet.
A former Jones employee told me …

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