The Sky Is Falling? The Sky Is Falling? THE SKY IS FALLING!
We’ve all been exposed to the fable Chicken Little in one form or another. Whether through books as a child or DVDs as a parent, the basic premise of the story is that, through misinterpretation of a specific event, or series of events, Chicken Little incites mass hysteria throughout his kingdom on the mistaken belief … Read more
The “Return of the Real Estate Investor?” One can only speculate…
Benjamin Graham, the recognized “godfather” of value-investing, once asserted that “…[T]he individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means… that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than … Read more
This Is a Building… An Investment… NOT a Deal…
Posted by Josh Jansen on October 30, 2009 · 1 Comment
If you have spent any time around the typical commercial real estate broker, odds are you have heard the term “deal” one time too many. “Deal” is certainly the most overused term in the brokerage vernacular. Brokers love to throw it around, whether talking about past closings, new prospects, or even buildings themselves. Although an … Read more
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