S.E.C. Real Estate Observer

An S.E.C. Biography
Arthur Hamel was born and raised in New Windsor, New York. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) with a degree in Industrial Engineering.
Art married his lovely wife Jane in 1965 and they have two fine sons. John, age 35, earned a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California [...]

“In any business transaction, you must hire professionals”.
In real estate and business transactions, we hire professionals and pay them by the hour. Do you ever consider just picking your attorney’s or CPA’s brain on a few items? Then you write the contracts/legal stuff yourself? With your CPA, do you take the appropriate actions based on [...]

“WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE US.”
In the last article I discussed the Business Broker, and the challenges in working with them.
This time we will discuss in detail the problem of the BUYER BEING “QUALIFIED” BY THE BROKER.
In most real estate practices, brokers probably try to qualify the buyers whenever they can. If [...]

Roy and Lance Moore purchased a very large business using real estate equities. For years, I have been trying to get all you to try it — you will like it.
In the next few articles, I am going to cover the real problems in working on business sales. I have never taught these or written [...]