Key legal question
Whether the tenants showed hardship justifying extension of the business and residential leases under Art. 272 OR.
Extracted holding
No. The tenants did not prove that liquidation of the business or sale of stock could not be completed by the lease end date, and age, health, and financial difficulties did not make the required hardship legally relevant here.
Extracted reasoning
An extension helps only if postponing termination is likely to ease the tenant's situation. The binding findings showed that liquidation by the end of 2006 was feasible; therefore no hardship existed that could be mitigated by more time. Age, health, and expected reliance on supplementary benefits did not change that assessment.