It was a struggle to get 30 investors on board, but a partner who owned 6 percent of an Aventura office tower used a rarely used clause to avoid foreclosure by selling not just its share, but the entire property, out of bankruptcy.

“If these people were to fight among themselves, the secured lender would have taken the property, and they would have lost everything,” said attorney Thomas M. Messana, who represented NNN Aventura Harbour Centre LLC, the partner that forced the sale.