The same type of things go on here in the states. We rented a kiosk in our local mall for about 14 years for the Christmas season. The last year the rent was 10 times what it was the first year. Talk about inflation!! When the owners find out that the renters are making some money they want more and more of it. In our case they did not improve anything and we actually had to run a telephone line to our booth and pay for hookup! Each year they would move us so that they had a telephone line in each of those spots. We were still making a nice profit, but got tired of being used so for the last four years we have made other arrangements. I can empathize with them.