In the Spring Festival of 2121, due to the epidemic situation in COVID-19, many people stayed at home and could not go out. However, in many enterprises, because the staff can't return to their workplaces after the Spring Festival, most of the shops didn't open for a period of time after the Spring Festival, except for some supermarkets and convenience stores. Originally, during the Spring Festival, people's consumption will increase a lot, but this Spring Festival is relatively deserted, and people are isolated at home, so consumption has also plummeted a lot. At this time, many operators are facing tremendous pressure. First, their income has dropped sharply, and second, their costs are still increasing. In addition to the venue rent, there are expenses such as employees' salaries, which leads to the increase of debts of many small individual industrial and commercial households, making ends meet. Some people will ask, is it legal for the landlord to come to urge the week at this time? First of all, it is reasonable and legal for the landlord to pay the rent on schedule. Secondly, according to the provisions of your contract, whether there are force majeure causes to increase the operating cost and reduce the rent, and then see whether there are relevant system provisions in the country. If it is within the scope of the contract, it is legal for the landlord to ask for rent.

first of all, according to the lease contract, it is in line with the regulations for the landlord to ask you to pay the rent on time. A contract is a document with legal effect, which stipulates the rights and obligations of both parties. The landlord rents the venue to you, and you pay the rent to the landlord. The landlord also has the right to ask you to pay the rent in full within the time limit stipulated in the contract. Because the formal contract is protected by law, it is also your obligation to pay the rent on time. If the payment deadline has not yet arrived, you also have the right to refuse to pay it, because you are not overdue. If you are overdue, the landlord urges the rent, it is reasonable and legal.

Secondly, it depends on whether there is a provision in the your contract that rent can be reduced or exempted due to force majeure, such as the epidemic situation. If your operating costs increase without income due to force majeure, or you can't use the leased premises for business activities, if there are relevant provisions, you can take the contract to ask the landlord to reduce or exempt the rent accordingly. This mainly depends on the agreement between you two. However, business activities are inherently risky, because there is no income due to the impact of the epidemic, which is not caused by the lessor, so it is unreasonable to ask the landlord to reduce rent or postpone rent payment.

Finally, it depends on whether the country has corresponding systems or regulations. During the Spring Festival to fight the epidemic, the state issued various policies to provide enterprises with tax relief and continuous support policies to help them tide over the difficulties, and also encouraged the rental of houses to be appropriately reduced or exempted, but it was not mandatory. As a legitimate lease relationship, the state should not force rent relief, so it still depends on the wishes of the lessor. Operators should not take the call of the state to ask the landlord for rent relief, because business activities are inherently risky, and you will not pay the landlord any extra money if you make more money.