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Posted in Feature Articles, Spring 2019 on 10 February 2019
Stats: 1,285 views and Comments Off on The Seven Deadly Sins in Equity Marketing
This course comes from compiling 35 years of experience, successes, and failures; attending hundreds of real estate marketing events; observing others; and gathering input from fellow brokers. My definition of Equity Marketing is where a broker tries to accomplish his or her client’s goals, using all the skill and talents the broker possesses, to move […]
Posted in Society Columns, Spring 2018 on 1 March 2018
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Back on the farm, I hunted rabbit and quail with a single barrel shotgun, but dad had a double barrel. I was envious of that gun. It seemed to me he could get twice the game I could. I see a lot of commercial brokers doing the same—marketing with one barrel. The first barrel is […]
Posted in Society Columns, Spring 2017 on 12 April 2017
Stats: 1,106 views and Comments Off on Improvement — Not Perfection
Recently I was at a dinner with a group. One of the attendees was clearing and wiping the table. I was having a little fun with him, and said, “You missed a spot” and pointed. He calmly looked at me and said, “I’m working on improvement, not perfection.” A lot of life is like this—can […]
Posted in Society News Briefs, Spring 2017 on 12 April 2017
Stats: 899 views and Comments Off on Understanding Your Client
Understanding Your Client Ted J. Blank, S.E.C. Indianapolis, Indiana September 10–13, 2017 The S.E.C. Education Foundation and the Society of Exchange Counselors are pleased to announce that Ted J. Blank, S.E.C., will present Understanding Your Client from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on September 10, 2017, in Indianapolis. Some of the highlights and subjects: This […]
Posted in Society Columns, Winter 2016 on 14 February 2016
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While watching the National Basketball Association draft of college players recently, it occurred to me that there are a lot of analogies between professional sports teams and real estate investors. Both have inventory (players or buildings), an owner, a CFO (CPA), a general manager (attorney), and a director of player personnel (spouse). In order to […]
Posted in Feature Articles, Summer 2012 on 16 July 2012
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In 1881, in Tombstone, AZ, Virgil Earp and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp, aided by Doc Holliday acting as a temporary deputy, confronted outlaw cowboys Billy and Ike Clanton, Tom McLaury and his brother Frank McLaury. Some historians say Ike and Tom were not armed. It did not go well for them. The point is: don’t go to a gunfight without a gun.
Posted in December 2010, Society Columns on 13 December 2010
Stats: 2,708 views and Comments Off on I Love My Banker – Part III
In earlier articles, we briefly discussed some of the challenges, regulations and restrictions your local banker is dealing with. Knowing these will help you as a borrower, buyer, or broker be more profitable in 2010-11. Commercial Real Estate, CRE, ratios are driving many of the decisions your bank is making today. If you or your clients have a commercial investment or development loan coming due in the next 12 months, be prepared to move it or pay it off…
Posted in Fall 2010, Society Columns on 16 August 2010
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When a bank loan goes 30 days delinquent in payments or past the due date, it becomes a scheduled item with the auditors. They may or may not require any reserves be put aside for loan losses. As default status continues, the loan will be written down based on borrower financial strength, appraisal, strength of the bank, etc.
Posted in Society Columns, Spring 2010 on 12 April 2010
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Yesterday I met with a Senior VP of a community bank. He has been in banking for 40 years. When I asked how he was doing, he said, “I’ve never seen it this bad, even during the RTC days in the 90s.” Do you have empathy for your local banker or disdain for their inability to make you a loan?
Posted in Formulas and Strategies, Spring 2005 on 17 March 2005
Stats: 2,037 views and Comments Off on My Favorite Formula
Occasionally, but not often, can you start a real estate deal with a formula, and work backwards to the successful closing. Normally, the formula is used once and the way you were trying to do the deal fails. Instead of giving up, you think, “how else could this deal be done?” Then you start reviewing […]