High metal prices have rats coming out of their holes

by | Oct 16, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

The demand for brass and copper has outstripped the supply causing scrap metal prices to soar to all-time highs. The combination of a struggling economy that has left millions of people without work and soaring scrap prices has created a problem for both commercial...

Do nice guys really finish last?

by | Oct 9, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

  In the business environment where success means promotion and promotion means more money; and, sales means profits and profits means distributions to investors, it is tempting for business people to sell their soul to the devil in exchange for their next big...

One man’s opinion

by | Oct 2, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

Based upon my business marketing, utilizing networking as a major tool, it might seem strange to hear that I’m truly an introvert. I’m not one to readily start a conversation and must work hard to carry on a conversation when meeting with people.  However, asked me my...

Networking 101

by | Sep 16, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

There has been a paradigm change in the business world over the last few years moving away from printed marketing to digital and personal marketing. Digital marketing through website presence and email campaigns are attractive to many larger businesses because of...

Mail vs. Email

by | Sep 4, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

I don’t believe there would be much argument that email rather than mail is a better form of communication for most businesses.  The almost instantaneous sending and receiving of email can cut days and weeks off the business transaction, an unlimited amount of data...

Every lie contains a small element of truth.

by | Aug 27, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

Let’s face it, we all lie.  It starts out very innocent when as a child we lie to our parents about who took the cookie from the cookie jar.  This behavior is so prevalent that a child’s game by the same name was popular when my daughter was growing up.  It went...