If a landlord thinks a tenant can survive after the COVID-19 recession passes, they’re usually motivated to work on payment plans, according to Tampa attorney Luis Martinez-Monfort.

“The appetite to work through forbearance from both the tenant and landlord is pretty high because I don’t think landlords believe, dependent upon the type of tenant they have, that there’s someone who’s immediately going to backfill a space,” said the founding partner of Gardner Brewer Martinez-Monfort.