Confessions of a Recovering Landlord

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Commercial Real Estate Agent - REATA Commercial Realty, Inc. - Texas 537349
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Costar is a commercial real estate information platform to which i just subscribed again. It is by far the largest and most accurate database out there. They list every office, industrial and retail building available for lease in the Dallas Fort Worth area plus tons of other markets throughout t...
09/14/2012
That's the basic question being asked in a Wall Street Journal article yesterday. It's an interesting idea and one that has been asked many times before. In fact, the question has been asked for virtually every industry in the last 200 years.  I am a tenant rep in the Dallas area focused on Plano...
08/29/2012
Last week I attended a presentation on The Emerging Workplace. It was a presentation by Miller Office Interiors, Access Business Centers and Interprise Design. It was interesting to hear how the workplace is changing largely due to technology and the preferred work environment of younger workers....
08/27/2012
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The more imbalanced the knowledge in a negotiation, the more the side with greater knowledge can take advantage of the other side. So many times in life we try to do something ourselves because we're too cheap to pay an expert. That's why the floor tile is crooked in my bathroom and the faucet at...
08/15/2012
Several years ago I was talking to a friend in Austin and mentioned that I had sold my house in Dallas as a For Sale By Owner (FSBO).  He was surprised that it was possible to buy or sell a house without a residential real estate agent.  I was shocked that he didn't know he could trade real estat...
08/13/2012
This video shows one of my clients in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, talking about his advertising/marketing agency and the work REATA did for his company. The text of the video is shown below if you prefer to read it. I’m Mike Covert, President of ignite partnership. We’re a 4 ½-year-old market...
07/19/2012
One of the most important things that a tenant representative can provide is information. Unlike residential real estate which uses the MLS (multiple listing service), commercial real estate uses several databases including Costar, Xceligent, LoopNet, CityFeet, CommercialSource, and others. Some ...
07/16/2012
You’d be amazed at the number of commercial tenants that run out of space well before their lease term runs out. There are few things that are more chaotic to a business operation than having to work out of multiple locations because of poor planning. That’s why it’s vital that you plan for your ...
07/09/2012
Feeling tired and overworked? According to a study by the National Sleep Foundation, the average employed American works a 46-hour workweek and 38% of the respondents worked more than 50 hours per week.  You may be surprised to learn that this contributes to commercial tenants paying far too much...
06/07/2012
Total Class Solutions is a national class action administrator that specializes predominantly in construction defect issues, although we are currently expanding to other issues during 2012. It is often thought of as an insurance company-related business. It is not. It’s handling class actions an...
05/29/2012
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Anything and everything related to corporate real estate - a company's use of real estate. This is usually a company's lease or purchase of office, warehouse or retail space.