Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Leasing vs. Owning Land: The Risky Business Dilemma #shorts

4 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, a participant (Speaker A) expresses concern about the risks of leasing land for a business, especially the possibility that a landlord could terminate the lease after the tenant has invested significant capital. The speaker wonders how owning land would mitigate this risk. Tommy Dobczyk prompts the speaker to use the Deal Hunter tool to get answers, highlighting the tool as a resource for evaluating lease versus ownership decisions. The exchange underscores the importance of due‑diligence when assessing real‑estate commitments for businesses.

This is very helpful because when I was digging, I was like obsessing over it yesterday and I was like, what's the difference between owning the land and having— so when that question came up, I was like, yes, I need it. I want to know because what's the difference between owning the land and leasing the land? Because all the businesses I was looking at yesterday, they all had leases. But I'm like, what if they decide they just want to stop leasing to you and you've spent a couple hundred grand on this investment? And now they change the lease up on you. I just think about like—
did you, did you put that question into Deal Hunter to get it answered?
No, you guys just did, so I got my—
and again, I didn't answer it, it did. I, I asked the question, you didn't ask. So if the question comes to your head, ask it and then validate it later with us because there's a good chance that it's going to be right.