Rent Is Too Damn High Guy, Again
We all remember the “rent is too damn high guy“, right? Here he’s at it again. One thing that hasn’t been clarified clearly enough is if it is commercial rents or residential rents that are too damn high… I’m going to lean with the latter.
Every CRE Broker Needs To Learn How To Code
Sitting in on some training from MNCAR (Minnesota Commercial Association of REALTORS or Minnesota Commercial Association of Real Estate, depending on which one you belong to. Confusing, I know) the other day, it amazes how little commercial brokers understand about computers and internet. MNCAR recently took a step forward by switching to ePropertyData – a…
What Steve Jobs can teach commercial real estate about phone calls
Put your Twitter and your Facebook away, great advice from Steve Jobs about picking up the damn phone and asking for something (ie: business, listing, buyer, et al). Commercial real estate for the most part is still and always will be “beat the street” mentality. That means cold calling STILL exists today.
Dangerous Man continues on
Looks like Minneapolis is paving the way for more breweries in the city as the City Council just passed an amendment allowing breweries to open up within 300ft of a church or place of worship. This new ordinance will also allow for off-sale liquor meaning that consumers can purchase growlers (64oz of beer) from the…
Would You Work With A Commercial Brokerages That Associates Itself With Walking Away
Recently, it has been reported that large local commercial real estate brokerage is giving the keys back to the lender of a large suburban office property in Bloomington. It’s not the first time this happened and certainly won’t be the last either. You would think moral ethics come into play as a brokerage is telling…
#crechat: What’s next?
When I first started #crechat, the goal has always been to provide individuals AND companies a spam free channel on Twitter to connect with each other providing some of the best thoughts and ideas around. That has definitely happened. We have had great brokers and companies step up and lead topics, have partnered with NAR Commercial for…
BOMA – There’s An App For That
I’ll be speaking at BOMA’s (Building Owner’s and Management Association) Greater Minneapolis and St Paul annual event on December 6th at Ramada Plaza in Minneapolis. The panel that I will be on is called: Social Media and Its Implications for Commercial Real Estate – Marketing, Networking, Legal Considerations. If you are a building owner and have…
New Greater MSP Shows Everything That Is Great About The Area
Greater MSP, the freshly formed economic devolopment group for the Twin Cities area has started their branding campaign.
What if Airbnb got into commercial leasing?
Airbnb is now thinking about moving into the car sharing business, is commercial real estate next on their radar? If you are not familiar with the website, I suggest you do as they are the marketplace for people wanting to rent their single family homes, condos or apartments from online, globally. Airbnb is one of…
High energy vampires
As I sit here and plot out my world domination for 2012, the term “high energy vampires” was used to describe the type of clients that people had seen the most of in 2011. Needless to say, most do not want to see any in the upcoming year. So what exactly is this “high energy…
Hello World, Again!
I never take the first canned WordPress blog post down, but I usually never add anything to the title either. I’d like to think I’m getting good at building WordPress sites. I can usually slam one up in a little less than hour now with everything in place including plugins and theme functions working properly….
Looking Forward
What a crazy last few months. In early August, I was told our broker was going to take a position with a new commercial brokerage. The company would be in business until the end of the month. Then, my wife (fiance at the time) had a severe stroke 30 days before we were set to…
Disruptive Platforms
There are no disruptive platforms in commercial real estate at the moment. In case you had an answer to that, this is not one of them in case you were wondering. Disruptive: A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt…
