Also, the company is privately owned or the owner is also a majority stakeholder. Otherwise owning the building is a liability that venture capital types will exploit to pay themselves back for the expenses of taking over your company.
Not if you are trying to avoid being bought out. Those assets are just something the VC firm will leverage to buy out your company. Basically telling their lenders that you own X amount of real estate worth $Y, so use it as collateral on the loan they make to take over your company. Those assets then get sold to pay off the loan and the stores get to pay rent to some landlord.
