This always strikes me as a real contradiction, so we hear Thai landlords are greedy, soon as they see a business doing okay, up go the following years key money and rents. I've seen this happen many many times.
Now I think maybe as they usually own the building mortgage free, it is costing them nothing, so hold on to see if the business can come good again?. But if that was the mentality, why hammer the same guy if he does good one year by increasing the rent to levels his business cannot afford even in the good times? If greed, non caring is the attitude, its costing them nothing to also just kick him out as soon as he cannot pay his rent, and has the added bonus of perhaps getting a new tenant in that can pay some more key money.
Equally this makes no sense to me, as I know the lease laws here are very weak and usually not worth the paper they are written on, so not many times does any landlord bother with taking a tenant to court as too much hard work for little reward.
Then when a business struggles and cannot afford to pay the rent, they seem to very often let the tenant get miles behind with the rental payments, instead of just simply kicking them straight out.
So why let them amount loads of unpaid rental?? is it simply weak lease laws?