If you have another option, take it.

With some thirty years of property experience, both as landlord and tenant, I have never experienced anyone with such an uncooperative and negative approach to what should be a mutually beneficial association. Dogmatic and uncooperative. Expect a complex, one sided lease. One that pretty much signs away your rights to exercise your own business discretion. Expect almost every decision to be controlled by the small print. Do not expect a “let’s see how we can do this” approach typical of a professional property owner. Don’t for a moment think, merely because you rent premises, that you can appoint your own (duly registered) electrician to put in a plug point, or your shop fitter to put up a shelf, and heaven forbid that you want to put a sign on your window….ah, that small print again! If I could go back in time, I would run a mile.