In an earlier post I mentioned several types of businesses that make good sale/lease-back transactions. Since then I've been asked why a business would want to take part in this type of transaction. In a sale/lease-back a owner occupant of a building sells the property and then signs a lease wi
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02/12/2011
It's been a little while since I added to my series on evaluating commercial real estate investments. If you recall, we were analyzing a small retail property in downtown Reading, PA. We looked at several aspects of the property's performance, from NOI through IRR, but one thing that we did not
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02/07/2011
Like most commercial real estate, value is created in retail properties through effective leasing. One important aspect to consider when leasing your retail real estate is your tenant mix. In other words, you need to consider how your tenants businesses relate to one another. Here are five que
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02/04/2011
If you are a serious commercial real estate investor sooner of later you are going to find yourself owning a property that is difficult to lease. Tenant's preferences change and what may have been attractive space a few years ago can quickly become obsolete. This problem is multiplied when the pr
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02/01/2011
I had an interesting meeting this weekend with a commercial real estate investor in Reading, PA. This investor has several projects in different stages of development throughout the city. He asked me to sit down and discuss his overall portfolio and help him figure out if and how I can help him
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01/31/2011
I recently wrote a post where I mentioned investing in real estate using a self directed IRA, and since then I have received a ton of questions about how this works. While I am very capable of helping you find, purchase, and manage commercial real estate investments for your IRA, I'm not an IRA
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01/27/2011
No really, real estate is actually worthless. I'm sure that this might sound strange coming from someone who sells commercial real estate for a living. Does this mean that I've been tricking investors for years now? Nope. It just means that today I'm going to use that minor in philosophy that
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01/27/2011
I'm often asked the question whether or not commercial real estate should be listed on the local multiple listing service (MLS). Apparently there are some commercial real estate agents out there who tell their clients that they don't need to put their commercial property on the MLS, and there ar
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01/26/2011
I realized that my blog post yesterday was titled NNN or Gross... What's The Best Type of Commercial Lease, but it never really said which type of lease was the best. I explained the difference between the two types of leases and left it at that. Well, as someone who hates false advertising, I
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01/25/2011
NNN (Read as Triple Net) leasing is one concept in commercial real estate that is often misunderstood. I was in a meeting on Friday with a number of commercial real estate professionals and the topic of NNN versus Gross leasing came up. Many of the participants in the meeting have been in the b
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01/24/2011