Most of the successful commercial real estate investors that I know understand that knowledge is power. The more you know about real estate investing, the easier it is to make money. Because of this, many of the successful investors I know read everything they can about real estate investing.
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01/09/2011
I'm often asked the question, "Don't all commercial real estate agents do the same thing?" This question usually comes from someone who is thinking about hiring their brother in law, cousin, family friend, or random acquaintance to sell their commercial real estate. Many sellers assume that all
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01/08/2011
In my post about calculating IRR, I promised to come back to the subject of making projections. Like many other aspects of buying commercial real estate, making projections is more of an art than a science. A friend of mine who works at a private equity firm likes to say, "All financial project
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01/07/2011
I spend a lot of time blogging about commercial real estate investing, but a friend of mine mentioned to me today that I don't spend enough time talking about leasing commercial space. So I've decided to write at least one post about leasing each week. Today, I'm simply going to introduce 8 bas
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01/06/2011
I was speaking with a group of real estate investors in Reading, PA yesterday. Most of them are involved in commercial real estate, but one of them was just starting of in residential investing. I guess this doesn't happen too often, because our discussion made me realize that there is really a
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01/05/2011
You may have noticed that it's been a few days since my post on Cash on Cash Returns, and I haven't yet posted regarding Internal Rate of Return (IRR) as I had promised. To be honest, thinking about addressing IRR in a single post is a bit daunting. It is the most complex of the topics that I'v
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01/04/2011
I received a few questions after I mentioned Sale Lease-Back transactions in my post yesterday, ‘7 Reasons to Call Your Commercial Real Estate Agent'. Apparently this is a new concept for many business owners here in Reading, PA. So I wanted to give a small list of companies that are well suite
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12/31/2010
You Need Money - No, I'm not offering to make you a loan, but with today's credit markets, you might not be able to find anyone to make a loan to your business. So how can a Commercial agent help you? If your business owns real estate that it occupies, it may be possible to monetize your equit
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12/30/2010
I'm sure if you've read my earlier posts you may be wondering when this will all end, but today we are finally getting to the good stuff: Returns. Why are you investing in commercial properties in Reading, PA? I'm guessing it's because you'd like to make some money. One measure of how much mon
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12/29/2010
Hopefully you now have a good hanldle on cap rates, and we can move forward with analyzing that small retail property in downtown Reading, PA. Once you have an idea about what a property is worth, you need to figure out how you are going to pay for it. For most investors this means getting a mo
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12/28/2010
