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To begin heres a little background on our business. Me doug markovitz and my brother brad markovitz have owned county beverage Ilc dba casselberry liquor for 9 years going on 10 years. We have 5 very loyal trustworthy employees that depend on this job to secure their future and feed their families. Lets just say we are a true family business if they still have thoose anymore. So For 9 years we have paid rent consistently for the past 9 years without late payments or any issues-from 2020-2022 during the health crises we continued to pay rent on begging of the month every time without any delay. we like to think as ourself as a good tenant for the landlord over 9 years we have paid them over $500,000 in rent payments without interruption. Me and my brother have been running the business since 24 years old and have worked hard for many years to build up the business. We put blood sweat and tears in building this store up and many many late nights at the store. We were raised in middle class family raised by our single mom. Our mom raised us to work hard in entrepreneurship and build up a business and achieve the american dream. She raised us as jewish faith with integrity, loyalty and honesty and to treat others how you want to be treated and most important stick up for what we believe in and have faith and stay strong. Therefor im writing this narrative to expose chronie capitalism corporate bullying at its finest and provide a voice and a platform for not only our situation but all the small businesses that having fallen victim and lost their business and killed their american dream as a victim to corporate bullying and chronie capitalism and manipulative tactics *The story begins around april 26 2021 which was was roughly 13 months roughly 390 days from our renewal option period for our lease. You can see from our email log in dropbox april 26th 2021 1 emailed mr ryan tuffs property manager of itson and partners about the ac needing to get replaced and we were wondering if he would be willing to work with us to cover some of the cost. He mentioned "hed maybe able to incoroporate a contribution toward our ac replacement along with our lease renewal extension beyond the 5/31/22 lease expiration..i told him i was ok with that arrangement and appreciated his compromise and told him we can revist it later on.We went ahead and paid roughly 9000 out of pocket for brand new ac from peak refrigeration. Now turn to may 18th 2021 email lohs with jana dupree and ryan tufts property manager of kitson and parters (they are the developer and property manager) im asking about the reasoning for raiseing the rent during the pandemic and asked their future plans for the building going forward and discussing my option for renewal. They said that they had a possible deal with a major tenant coming and recommended i speak with vp of kitson and partners mr matt buhler on some ideas of their future plans for us in the plaza. On "may 18th" in the emails I specifically asked them to send me a renewal proposal so we can