When the cat’s away do the mice actually play?

by | Aug 19, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

As a business owner I’m always reluctant to take time off away from my business.  While I know that my employees are well trained and can perform their jobs without me looking over their shoulder I’m still uncomfortable leaving them in charge of day-to-day operations...

Pushing the boundaries of your business

by | Aug 13, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

I was watching one of the early episode of Saturday Night Live this weekend, that was hosted by George Carlin, and thought about how George Carlin and Lenny Bruce both pushed the boundaries of their profession.  For Lenny Bruce telling jokes that were on the fringe of...

Freedoms is just another word for nothing else to lose

by | Jul 31, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

I was at the gym last night riding a spinning bike and rocking out to music on my IPod when the shuffle brought up Janis Joplin and her version of “Me and Bobby Magee”.  As I listened to the song with Janis belting out each line, “Freedom is just another word for...

The lost art – written correspondence

by | Jul 24, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

When was the last time that you received a written correspondence from a family member, friend or business associate?  I don’t mean a short email or text message but an actual honest to goodness letter.  If you are like me, it has probably been months or even years...

Lack of planning on your part does not require rushing by me!

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

  It is always frustrating to me when I plan my schedule so that I have time to comfortably make my commute from one appointment to another to only have one of the people I’m meeting with either not in their office, running behind with a meeting or otherwise...

Can you really trust what you see?

by | Jul 14, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Residential Real Estate

  I just purchased a new version of Photoshop and was viewing some of the instructional videos of the new features that the software has and it made me realize that we can no longer rely upon what we see in a photo to be real.  I guess that to some extent I’ve...