I am evaluating a retail business with 9 separate leased locations and concerned about successfully transferring all the leases in a transaction. All the locations are in strip malls with landlords that run the gamut, all the way from an institutional nationwide REIT to local mom & pop ownership. Has anyone worked on or closed an SBA deal that overcame this issue? I also foresee some difficulty with the lender, as I understand that an SBA lender will want lease terms to sync up with the debt maturity. I would imagine this issue is common in franchise transactions, so if there are common practices in that domain, they may be applicable here.