Trim the fat

by | Jun 26, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

  For years doctors have been advising us to trim the fat from our diets in order to live a healthier and happier life.  This has proven hard for people to do because the foods that are the worst for us are the foods that always smell so good.  Oddly, the same...

Oxymoron

by | May 7, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

We’ve all heard them, words combined together like jumbo shrimp, dry ice and government intelligence.  They really should never be used in a sentence together but have become acceptable in general conversation.  They are known as an oxymoron.  My blog today is about...

Wake up people! There is no such thing as a free lunch.

by | Apr 8, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

  The saying, “There is no such thing as a free lunch”, has been around since the 30s and while it can’t be attributed to any one person there have been several who’ve alluded to it.  In particular, Milton Friedman used it as a title to his collection of magazine...

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

by | Mar 25, 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...

Are you living the life?

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

I stop by my local scuba diving shop occasionally to get a quick dose of diving conversation and to see if there is anything new in the market that I might not be able to live without.  Each time I stop by the shop I ask the manager, Randy, how he is doing and he...

Are you LinkedIn?

by | Jan 15, 2014 | Brokerage, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, Property Acquisition, Property Development, Property Maintenance, Property Management, Real Estate Consulting, Recommended Vendors, Residential Real Estate

  A few years back a friend of mine who owns a marketing company told me about an upstart web site that was similar to MySpace but for business.  He encouraged me to sign up and then invited me to Connect with him.  I didn’t think much about it at the time and...